Alan Cochrane | |
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Born | Dundee, Scotland |
Education | Grove Academy |
Occupation | Journalist |
Employer | The Daily Telegraph |
Alan Cochrane is the Scottish editor of the British broadsheet newspaper The Daily Telegraph . [1]
Cochrane was born in Dundee and educated at the city's Grove Academy. He joined DC Thomson as a sub-editor and reporter before moving to the Scottish Daily Express . Between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s he was based in London, covering political issues for several newspapers.
In 1994 he became editor of the Scottish Daily Express, then deputy editor of Scotland on Sunday . In the late 1990s he became a columnist at The Daily Telegraph before becoming its Scottish editor. [2]