According to ABCe Scotsman.com has dropped from four million unique users a month to a mere two million. Oddly enough this drop in unique users coincides with this paper's virulent Anti-SNP bias on every page. All of which makes this great breaking news all the more welcome. It also makes Alan Greenwood the online editor's assertion that, "The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, and by extension scotsman.com, advocated support for the SNP at the most recent Scottish Parliamentary elections." absolutely fucking hilarious....
=BREAKING==NEWS===BREAKING===NEWS===BREAKING==NEWS===== Breaking news, 8pm. The Scotsman editor has apparently stepped down. In a memo issued by the paper's managing director, Michael Johnston, Mike Gilson has "relinquished his position with immediate effect". Johnston continues: "Further announcements will be made in due course. The company has no other comment to make at this time." With sister title, Scotland on Sunday, soon losing its editor, Les Snowdon - to become sports editor at the Daily Mail - speculation will be rife that The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday titles might be brought together, at least under a single production system.
=======FURTHER==BREAKING==NEWS==JOHN=MCLELLAN==NEW==EDITOR.
John McLellan has been appointed editor of The Scotsman, succeeding Mike Gilson who left the post yesterday.
The current editor of the Edinburgh Evening News and a former Scotland on Sunday editor, McLellan takes over on Monday. It is understood the other main titles in the Scotsman Publications' portfolio - the Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday - will have their own editors, but that McLellan will have some operational 'responsibilities' for them.
John McLellan took over the Edinburgh Evening News paper in 1997, having been its deputy editor for the previous four years. He subsequently spent three years as editor of the Scotland on Sunday before returning to edit the News for a second time in 2004. Born in Glasgow in 1962, he was educated at Hutchesons’ Grammar School and Stirling University. He now lives in Merchiston with his wife Trish and three children.
Will he continue with the myopic, narrow unionist bias, personified by the woefully inadequate Gilson?
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