Scotsman editor questions...

Scotsman’s choice of editor raises questions over future direction

MIKE who? is the phrase on everyone’s lips in Scottish media circles at the moment, but this is not a relative of the nation’s favourite Timelord.
It is a response to the naming of Mike Gilson as the man finally chosen by Johnston Press to be the next editor of The Scotsman. Stand aside Andrew Marr. Step back Mark Douglas-Home. Make way for the editor of Portsmouth’s The News, who has never worked on a “quality” paper and has never worked in Scotland.

The decision is certainly not what anybody was expecting. The newspaper gossip in recent weeks had been that Douglas-Home, former editor of The Herald, had the job in the bag. He was understood to have won through in a second interview in early August over Independent executive editor John Mullin.

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