When I describe my job as a bit like being the foreign correspondent next door, it can raise eyebrows. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Scottish Labour’s Kezia Dugdale, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and Ruth Davidson of the Scottish Conservatives attend the STV election debate on March 29, 2016 in Edinburgh, Scotland. I was also shocked by the lack of women reporting politics – when I first entered the media tower at the Scottish parliament, I upped the female contingent there to three. Since then more women have joined the Holyrood lobby, and with a bunch of colleagues I helped set up the networking and campaigning organisation Women in Journalism Scotland, in 2016. The position of a second Scotland team member was made permanent in 2015, and I was utterly delighted to stay because – well, the story just kept getting better.

Source: The Guardian December 22, 2018 09:33 UTC