He is described as the “former Scotsman journalist [who] never hesitated to take on the political establishment”.
Today, The Scotsman publishes an obituary of Jim Grassie, who died aged 77 last Saturday.
Begins Alison Shaw: “Jim Grassie was an old-school journalist whose quiet determination, incisive mind and immaculate shorthand took him from cub reporter to the very heart of Scotland’s business and political circles.”