Angela Haggerty
Angela Haggertyis a former journalist, who briefly held a new editor position at theSunday Heraldand online for the activist websiteCommonSpace.She has been a contributor on Scottish TV and radio, particularly discussingScottish independence.
Background
[edit]Haggerty grew up on theIsle of Buteand joined a small community radio station there, volunteering to host a weekly topical news show. She studied journalism atCardonald Collegein Glasgow.[1]
Media career
[edit]She worked forThe Drum.She edited and part-wrote a book about theliquidation of Rangers Football Club.[2][3]Haggerty was the subject of an online hate campaign which led to a Rangers fan receiving a six-month custodial sentence for making sectarian threats towards Haggerty.[4]Haggerty has spoken againstmisogynyin Scottish football and on social media.[5]
Haggerty wrote a weekly column for theSunday Herald.In January 2016, her fellow columnistGraham Spierswas sacked from the newspaper when he wrote a column about sectarian singing in Scottish football which attracted controversy because of a comment about a director ofRangers F.C.The Heraldissued an apology. Haggerty was deemed to have undermined that apology in comments she made on Twitter, and was subsequently sacked.[6]Haggerty was later reinstated.[7]
In 2014 she became editor ofCommonSpace,the website of pro-independence bloggersCommon Weal.In April 2018, she left and took up the position of News Editor at theSunday Herald;she left three months later, in July 2018.[8]
References
[edit]- ^"Cardonald College graduates".Evening Times.9 November 2012.Retrieved4 August2020.
- ^Greenslade, Roy (15 July 2014)."Journalist suffers sexist and racist abuse after BBC interview about Rangers".The Guardian.Retrieved6 May2018.
- ^"Angela Haggerty – Journalist & Broadcaster".Mediargh. Mediargh. 2013. Archived fromthe originalon 3 June 2017.Retrieved1 August2017.
- ^"Rangers fan David Limond jailed for sectarian threats".BBC News.9 January 2014.Retrieved10 June2018.
- ^Helen, McArdle (12 January 2014)."'I am a victim of anti-Irish racism,' says Scots writer ".Herald Scotland.Retrieved4 August2020.
- ^Greenslade, Roy (29 January 2016)."Two columnists depart from Glasgow's Herald in row with Rangers".The Guardian.Retrieved6 May2018.
- ^"Sunday Herald 'reinstates' Angela Haggerty after Rangers row".BBC News.19 February 2016.Retrieved6 May2018.
- ^Sharman, David (27 July 2018)."News editor quits role at Sunday title after three months to 'get some proper rest'".www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk.Retrieved4 August2020.