Harry Reid (publisher)

Harry Reid (born Glasgow 1947) is a Scottish

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and

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, best known for having been the

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of '' The Herald'' newspaper in Scotland. His first book, ''Dear Country: A Quest for England'', was published in 1991. He was educated at

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Fettes College Fettes College () is a co-educational independent boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland, with over two-thirds of its pupils in residence on campus. The school was originally a boarding school for boys only and became co-ed in 1983. In ...

and

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, where he read modern history. On leaving Oxford in 1969 he went to

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, where he trained as a journalist. He then worked on ''

The Scotsman ''The Scotsman'' is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh. First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its par ...

'' in Edinburgh from 1970 till 1981. In 1973 he was the paper's first full-time education correspondent and in 1977 he became ''The Scotsman'' features and literary editor. In 1981 he moved to Glasgow to be sports and leisure editor on the short-lived ''Sunday Standard''. In 1982 he switched to ''The Herald'' as an executive editor. He was appointed deputy editor in 1984. In 1997 he was appointed editor, a position he held through 2000. From 1999 to 2001 he chaired the Scottish Editors' Committee. In 2001 he received the

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's Medal "for giving Glasgow a Voice". In 2001 he was commissioned to write a major "outsider's critique" of Scotland's national church, the

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. To help with the research he was given a visiting fellowship by the Faculty of Divinity,

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. The resultant book, ''Outside Verdict: An Old Church in the New Scotland'' was published by

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Other books include: ''Dear Country: A Quest for England'' (

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, 1991); ''The Final Whistle: Scottish Football - The Best and Worst of Times'' (

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, 2005); ''Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press'' (

in association with the

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