New man at Holyrood

A senior reporter at the Edinburgh Evening News begins a new job – as a political reporter for the Press Association, based at the Scottish Parliament – from a week on Monday.

Mark McLaughlin, who has been senior reporter at the paper since January two years ago, is a journalism graduate from Edinburgh Napier University. Following his graduation four years ago, we was taken on as a reporter with DC Thomson’s Courier and Evening Telegraph newspapers, based in Dundee.

He was nominated for Young Journalist of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards the following year.