'Readers are far more demanding, rightfully so'

"IF EDITING were easy, our grannies would be doing it," declares Mike Gilson, the newly-appointed editor of The Scotsman.

Few would pretend editing at The Scotsman has ever been easy. Under the ownership of the Barclays and former editor-in-chief Andrew Neil, this newspaper went through seven editors in ten years. Gilson, 43, has been appointed following the departure o...