Angela Haggerty

Angela Haggerty is a Scottish activist and former journalist. She wrote for publications including the Sunday Herald and the news website CommonSpace. She has contributed to Scottish TV and radio discussing politics and Scottish independence.

Background

Haggerty grew up on the Isle of Bute and joined a small community radio station there, volunteering to host a weekly topical news show. She studied journalism at Cardonald College in Glasgow.[1]

Media career

She worked for The Drum. She edited and part-wrote a book about the liquidation 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 against misogyny in Scottish football and on social media.[5]

Haggerty wrote a weekly column for the Sunday Herald. In January 2016, her fellow columnist Graham Spiers was 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 of Rangers FC. The Herald issued 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 of CommonSpace, the website of pro-independence think tank Common Weal. In April 2018, she left and took up the position of News Editor at the Sunday Herald; she left three months later, in July 2018.[8]

References
  1. "Cardonald College graduates". Evening Times. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  2. Greenslade, Roy (15 July 2014). "Journalist suffers sexist and racist abuse after BBC interview about Rangers". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  3. "Angela Haggerty – Journalist & Broadcaster". Mediargh. Mediargh. 2013. Archived from the original on 3 June 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  4. "Rangers fan David Limond jailed for sectarian threats". BBC News. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2018.
  5. Helen, McArdle (12 January 2014). "'I am a victim of anti-Irish racism,' says Scots writer". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  6. Greenslade, Roy (29 January 2016). "Two columnists depart from Glasgow's Herald in row with Rangers". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  7. "Sunday Herald 'reinstates' Angela Haggerty after Rangers row". BBC News. 19 February 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  8. Sharman, David (27 July 2018). "News editor quits role at Sunday title after three months to 'get some proper rest'". www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
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