Angela Haggerty
Angela Haggerty is a former journalist, who briefly held a new editor position at the Sunday Herald and online for the activist website CommonSpace. She has been a contributor on Scottish TV and radio, particularly discussing Scottish independence.
Background
Haggerty grew up on the Isle of Bute and joined a small community radio station there, volunteering to host a weekly topical news show. She studied journalism at Cardonald College in Glasgow.[1]
Media career
She worked for The Drum. She edited and part-wrote a book about the liquidation of Rangers Football Club.[2][3] Haggerty was the subject of an online hate campaign which led to a Rangers fan receiving a six-month custodial sentence for making sectarian threats towards Haggerty.[4] Haggerty has spoken against misogyny in Scottish football and on social media.[5]
Haggerty wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Herald. In January 2016, her fellow columnist Graham Spiers was sacked from the newspaper when he wrote a column about sectarian singing in Scottish football which attracted controversy because of a comment about a director of Rangers F.C. The Herald issued an apology. Haggerty was deemed to have undermined that apology in comments she made on Twitter, and was subsequently sacked.[6] Haggerty was later reinstated.[7]
In 2014 she became editor of CommonSpace, the website of pro-independence bloggers Common Weal. In April 2018, she left and took up the position of News Editor at the Sunday Herald; she left three months later, in July 2018.[8]
References
- ^ "Cardonald College graduates". Evening Times. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ Greenslade, Roy (15 July 2014). "Journalist suffers sexist and racist abuse after BBC interview about Rangers". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Angela Haggerty – Journalist & Broadcaster". Mediargh. Mediargh. 2013. Archived from the original on 3 June 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "Rangers fan David Limond jailed for sectarian threats". BBC News. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
- ^ Helen, McArdle (12 January 2014). "'I am a victim of anti-Irish racism,' says Scots writer". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ Greenslade, Roy (29 January 2016). "Two columnists depart from Glasgow's Herald in row with Rangers". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Sunday Herald 'reinstates' Angela Haggerty after Rangers row". BBC News. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ Sharman, David (27 July 2018). "News editor quits role at Sunday title after three months to 'get some proper rest'". www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2020.