The internet age has brought on a painful transformation for traditional media everywhere, and the press in Edinburgh and Scotland is no exception with constant rounds of cost-cuttings and consolidations in print media as it struggles to survive and remain relevant.
Newspapers and magazines are morphing into digital entities, as their traditional readership shrinks and is replaced by those weaned on social media and real time news.
It's been an easier transition for broadcast media, but the internet age has changed the media landscape in the last decade beyond all recognition.
That sweep of change is reflected in the greater numbers, each year, of online media folk at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh Television Festival, the industry pow-wow in Edinburgh in August.
Media is, also, always a gnarly subject for attendees at the Festival of Politics to get their teeth into.
Newspapers & Magazines, Edinburgh & Scotland
- The Big Issue Street magazine run on a non-profit basis.
- Bella Caledonia Nationalist cultural 'zine.
- The Courier Focuses on Fife and Tayside.
- Daily Record The tabloid online.
- Edinburgh Life Magazine Local glossy magazine.
- Edinburgh News Local daily newspaper.
- The Guardian Best of the England-biased papers.
- The Herald Glasgow-based daily.
- i-on Magazine Portable, coffee table glossy for Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- The Independent London-based paper, has good stories when it ventures North of the border.
- The List Fortnightly magazine covering Scotland
- The National Nationalist political zine.
- The Scotsman (Registration) Edinburgh-based daily covering national and international news.
- South Edinburgh Echo Online only community newspaper.
- The Student Edinburgh University's student newspaper.
- This Is North Scotland Aberdeen-based daily.
- Urban Realm Scottish architecture and urban design magazine
Edinburgh and Scotland Radio & Television content
Online, the lines between broadcast and webcast media have blurred to the point where it's difficult to distinguish the two. This list of Edinburgh content providers is probably incomplete, but the obvious destinations are here.
- BBC Scotland Scottish news from the Beeb and you can catch webcasts of Scottish affairs, arts and entertainment.
- Black Diamond FM The Midlothian Community radio station.
- Radio Forth Edinburgh's local commercial FM radio station. Aka Forth One.
- STV Scotland's television station.