Scott Reid Email and Phone Number

- Curate breaking sport stories, live coverage, in-depth analysis and interviews from credible sources for the UK's number one news app, Apple News.- Responsible for curation of the sport tab and various feeds covering almost every sport you can think of, including football, F1, tennis and boxing.- Responsible for forward planning to ensure other curators are aware of what's coming up in sport, and for pitching sport stories for the front page of the app.- Work with our Weekend Editor on Saturdays and Sundays as part of a two-person team responsible for monitoring major news developments on top of my sports duties.

- After completing garden leave from my previous Twitter post, began to handle major breaking news and in-depth reports at Euronews. Responsible for breaking news coverage of shootings in Serbia, MPs voting on Boris Johnson in the House of Commons and gay marriage being legalised in Estonia, and original stories such as featuring the debate over military neutrality in Ireland and sex education in schools in Northern Ireland, providing unique stories which give people a reason to visit the website and generate talkability online. Use tools such as Canva to produce pictures and graphics and liaise with others to secure maps and other images to illustrate news stories. - Tackled a range of freelance work in the run-up to the UK hosting Eurovision with an article in the Big Issue and TV and radio appearances with broadcasters such as the BBC and STV. - Assisted with a communications course at Glasgow Caledonian University, role-playing as a journalist to test the ability of students to handle crisis communications.

I was responsible for training curators in areas such as copy writing, misinformation, civic integrity and legal policy. I was also responsible for providing direction to Twitter's Curation team on COVID-19, including style guide entries, training and tackling misinformation, liaising with policy and legal teams to ensure we kept up with a fast developing situation. Most recently, I worked closely with the Brazil team to deal with difficult escalations and preparation ahead of their market’s heated presidential election.

I produced Twitter Moments on a day to day basis, content which contextualised the biggest conversations on the platform. My experience in national titles came to the fore in a content-based role as we tackled the aftermath of the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump as US president and terror attacks in Westminster and Manchester Arena.

Working with another lecturer, I assisted in the teaching of the news writing course in the university’s journalism course. I provided feedback to students, both verbally and through marking work.

I was at the heart of a busy newsroom during some pivotal stories, from the SNP winning a landslide election victory in the Scottish Parliament through to the referendum. I was often in charge of production for The Herald and Sunday Herald, with highlights including overseeing a 5am Scottish Parliament election special in 2011 and the paper’s edition on the day clubs voted against allowing Rangers back into the Scottish Premier League. While at The Herald I represented the paper on BBC Radio Scotland and STV Glasgow, cultivated a large following on social media which I pointed to our content and wrote for local titles in the United States.

I represented The Herald on STV Glasgow's live TV magazine show, the Riverside Show, as part of their Talking Point section to review the day's newspapers.

I produced a huge proportion of the Paisley Daily Express including front pages and liaised with other staff to ensure an excellent product. I was often the sole member of staff on duty over the weekend, responsible for completing the Monday newspaper and dealing with any breaking news and sports stories.

I was responsible for ensuring the subbing and layout side of things at the Evening Express in Aberdeen went smoothly and oversaw the later editions of the paper. I ensured that staff were motivated and mentored, and contributed to the paper’s strategy in management meetings.

In a wide-ranging role, I was central to the relaunch of two titles: the Saturday edition of the flagship Greenock Telegraph newspaper and its freesheet, the Inverclyde Extra. A new magazine was devised for the Telegraph and sport coverage was increased to boost the weekend offering.The Inverclyde Extra relaunch was in response to the launch of a rival free title in the area which threatened our sales and advertising. I developed a new look and workflow for the Inverclyde Extra which meant it could be produced at low-cost by one person and still contain hard-hitting news, supplemented by pages of user-generated content. The title which was launched as a rival to our papers later closed and feedback from editorial and advertising colleagues on our efforts was excellent.

I was asked to take over a series of newspapers which had once been the fastest growing local title in the UK but had been struggling in more recent times. I worked with the reporters to ensure they were given the support they needed to improve their performances and knew exactly what I wanted from them.

I reinvigorated an excellent team in what had been considered a quiet news area to push for harder news stories. We achieved huge sales through aggressive promotions and a hard-hitting news agenda balanced with traditional community stories, ensuring we retained older readers while gaining new ones.

As part of this wide-ranging role I was put in charge of the free newspaper in the group, the Paisley People, and asked to relaunch it. I introduced a new entertainments section and placed more emphasis on harder news. Previously, the only distribution of the paper was being put through letterboxes (where it was often an unwelcome visitor and thrown out!) so new distribution methods were put in place in liaison with the circulation department, including pick-up points in community centres and supermarkets, to make it more of an active choice to read the paper. Meanwhile, as sports editor I expanded the paid-for papers’ coverage to ensure far more sports teams and clubs were covered, I also sub-edited for the paid-for titles and, when either the editor or news editor were on holiday, I covered the news editor's responsibilities.

I covered a wide range of topics and developed an ability to work to tight deadlines, which producing reports which were accurate and informative. I successfully passed the National Council for the Training of Journalists' NCE examination, the industry standard, at the first attempt and was also asked to lay out pages for both this title and sister title the Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter.