Alan Cochrane
Alan Cochrane is a Scottish journalist and political commentator. He is Scottish Editor of the British broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph,[1]
Cochrane was born in Dundee and educated at Grove Academy in the city's Broughty Ferry area. He entered journalism as a sub-editor and reporter for DC Thomson before joining the Daily Express in Glasgow. Between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s he was based in London, covering political issues across a number of newspapers.
In 1994 he was appointed as Editor of the Scottish Daily Express before becoming Deputy Editor of the Scotland on Sunday. In the late 1990s he became a columnist at the Daily Telegraph before taking up the role as its Scottish Editor. [2]
Notes
- ^ Alan Cochrane [profile], telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 25 May 2009
- ^ http://www.dundee.ac.uk/externalrelations/events/lectures/2009/identity.htm
Alan Cochran is outspoken in his opposition to Scottish Independence, and often specific individuals involved in the Scottish Independence Movement. http://newsnetscotland.com.
References
- Alan Cochrane [profile], telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 25 May 2009
- Ritchie, Murray (2000), Scotland reclaimed: The inside story of Scotland's first democratic parliamentary election, Edinburgh: The Saltire Society, ISBN 0-85411-077-1
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