All posts in My Big Break

My Big Break: Charles Rae, retired journalist and now author
October 17, 2013

RETIRED Glasgow journalist, Charles Rae, is author of Fleet Street Frolics, after a 50-year career...

My Big Break: Mike Stevenson, CEO, Thinktastic
September 17, 2013

MIKE Stevenson is a multi, award-winning communicator, speaker, commentator on leadership and entrepreneur, with more...

My Big Break: David Reid, strategic brand marketing consultant
September 5, 2013

DAVID Reid is a multi, award-winning marketeer who has worked both agency and client side...

My Big Break: Kirstin Stevenson, director, Spreng & Co.
August 30, 2013

KIRSTIN Stevenson is a director of PR company, Spreng & Co. Across her career, she’s...

My Big Break: Bill McArthur, cartoonist and painter
August 13, 2013

BILL McArthur was The Herald’s cartoonist between 1992 and 2002 and continues to work, on...

My Big Break: Catherine Deveney, journalist and author
July 22, 2013

CATHERINE Deveney is an multi award-winning journalist, whose third novel, Dead Secret, is out on...

My Big Break: Esther Black, senior corporate affairs manager, The Crown Estate
July 11, 2013

ESTHER Black is senior corporate affairs manager with The Crown Estate, based in Edinburgh. The...

My Big Break: David McKinney, head of media and drama, City of Glasgow College, and former football reporter
June 20, 2013

DAVID McKinney is head of media and drama at the City of Glasgow College. He...

My Big Break: Tony Currie, broadcaster and founder of Radio Six International
June 6, 2013

LONG before the days of BBC Radios 1, 2, etc, there was a station called...

My Big Break: Eddie Harrison, film writer and screenwriter
June 5, 2013

EDDIE Harrison is a writer and screenwriter who has reviewed films for The List magazine...

My Big Break: Fiona Duff, owner, Duff Publicity
May 30, 2013

FIONA Duff runs Duff Publicity, an independent PR agency based in Edinburgh When did working in...

My Big Break: Nick Freer, Freer Consultancy
April 26, 2013

NICK Freer runs the Freer Consultancy, a strategic communications agency based in Edinburgh.

My Big Break: Sally Hampton, editor-in-chief, The Scots Magazine and My Weekly
April 23, 2013

SALLY Hampton is editor-in-chief of The Scots Magazine and My Weekly magazine, published by Dundee-based...

My Big Break: Neil Cooper, theatre critic, The Herald, and freelance writer
March 8, 2013

NEIL Cooper is theatre critic for The Herald, and a freelance writer.

My Big Break: Liam McDougall, investigations producer, BBC
February 12, 2013

LIAM McDougall is an investigations producer with the BBC, based in Glasgow.

My Big Break: Robert Taylor, editor, The Inverness Courier
February 8, 2013

ROBERT Taylor was last week picking up the Newspaper of the Year title at the Highlands...

My Big Break: Torcuil Crichton, Westminster editor, Daily Record
January 31, 2013

TORCUIL Crichton is Westminster editor for the Daily Record.

My Big Break: Alison Arnot, director, Catalyst Communications
January 22, 2013

ALISON Arnot is director of her own PR agency, Catalyst Communications, which she established in...

My Big Break: Jack Webster, BEM (recently awarded, for services to journalism)
January 14, 2013

THE New Year Honours list saw Scots journalist, Jack Webster, awarded a British Empire Medal for...