Writing to Remember

Few journalists can rival the range of experience that Keith Aitken has clocked up in nearly three decades of writing professionally for Scotland's top newspapers.

He is best known as a peerless commentator on Scottish political and economic issues, but has also dabbled successfully in almost every other form of newspaper journalism: news reporting, business, music criticism, travel writing, book reviewing, sub-editing, diary columns, op-ed commissioning, leader-writing, features of every sort -- even obituaries!

Little wonder that, since he turned freelance, his work has been in demand from a whole array of newspapers -- including London-based titles like the Sunday Times and the Independent.

As a columnist over two decades, he first made his name at the heavier end of the market, in newspapers like the pre-tabloid Scotsman, the Herald and Scotland on Sunday. But, since 2000, he has turned his hand with equal panache to writing an entertaining and trenchant column every week in the Scottish Daily Express. For good measure, he also graces the same paper each week in a quite different guise -- as compiler of a prize Scottish crossword with a legion of devoted fans.

Newsdesks looking for authoritative, sharply-written and well-informed copy on Scottish affairs, delivered reliably to length and deadline, need look no further.

Contact Keith Aitken : keith@kaitken.fsnet.co.uk