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    Notes of a Newsman: Witness to a Changing Scotland

    By John MacKay

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    As a young reporter John MacKay took the first calls on the Lockerbie Bombing. As a news anchor he conducted the final TV interviews of the Yes and No campaigns in Scotland’s Referendum. His journey in journalism has taken him to the key events through the most dramatic decades of Scotland’s peacetime history. Using contemporary scripts, transcripts of significant interviews, diaries and recollections, he charts Scotland’s transformation as a society and as a nation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLuath Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781910324578
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    Notes of a Newsman: Witness to a Changing Scotland
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    John MacKay

    John Mackay’s Hebridean roots stretch back beyond written records. His four bestselling novels, The Road Dance, Heartland, Last of the Line and Home, all draw on that heritage. He has made appearances at the Edinburgh Fringe, Aye Write and Celtic Connections, and his writing has featured on national television, radio and press. He is the co-anchor of STV’s News at Six and Scotland Tonight, the country’s most popular news and current affairs programmes. His experiences at the forefront of coverage of most of the major stories in Scotland in recent times are detailed in his book Notes of a Newsman, also published by Luath Press. A movie adaptation of The Road Dance filmed on the Western Isles and directed by Richie Adams was launched at the 2021 Edinburgh International Film Festival and won the Audience Award, voted for by viewers.

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