Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom.
Sir William Wallace was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence.
Christopher Murray Grieve, best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is considered one of the principal forces behind the Scottish Renaissance and has had a lasting impact on Scottish culture and politics. He was a founding member of the National Party of Scotland in 1928 but left in 1933 due to his Marxist–Leninist views. He joined the Communist Party the following year only to be expelled in 1938 for his nationalist sympathies. He would subsequently stand as a parliamentary candidate for both the Scottish National Party (1945) and British Communist Party (1964).
Unst is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the third-largest island in Shetland after Mainland and Yell. It has an area of 46 sq mi (120 km2).
Christie Marie Blatchford was a Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster. She published four non-fiction books.
James Howe McClure was a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa.
Morley Safer was a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose cast he joined in 1970 after its second year on television. He was the longest-serving reporter on 60 Minutes, the most watched and most profitable program in television history.
Michael Andrew Edwards BA is a Scottish author, army reserve officer, charity trustee, dementia campaigner, retired journalist and Deputy Lord Lieutenant.
David Leigh is a British journalist and writer who was the investigations editor of The Guardian and is the author of Investigative Journalism: a survival guide. He officially retired in April 2013, although Leigh continued his association with the newspaper.
Alan Fisher is a Scottish broadcast journalist and war correspondent.
Hassan Ghani, is a Scottish broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, based in London. He has worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gaza, Somalia, Turkey and Egypt during the uprising. He has been imprisoned twice by Israel during the course of his work.
Martin Samuel is an English sports columnist for News UK. He has previously worked for The Daily Mail, The Times, News of the World, GQ Magazine,The Tortoise, Jewish Chronicle, Daily Express, The Sun and Sunday People. Samuel was an occasional guest on the Sunday Supplement television show. On 20 December 2022, Samuel announced his final column for the Daily Mail, joining The Times, Sunday Times and TalkSPORT owner News UK in January, 2023.
John S. Dickerson is a Christian pastor, author and a nationally awarded American journalist. He has written essays and opinion columns for USA Today, CNN, The New York Times Sunday Opinion Page, and the religion pages of The Washington Post
Scot J. Paltrow is an American journalist. A financial journalist, Paltrow currently works for Reuters.
Hedley Thomas is an Australian investigative journalist and author, who has won seven Walkley Awards, two of which are Gold Walkleys.
David Hasemyer is an American journalist and author. With Lisa Song and Elizabeth McGowan, he won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and a 2016 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He graduated, in 1979, from San Diego State University, with a Bachelor's in Journalism. Hasemyer was raised in Moab, Utah.
Lou Kilzer is an investigative journalist and author and a two time Pulitzer Prize Winner.
David Nathaniel Philipps is an American journalist, a national correspondent for The New York Times and author of three non-fiction books. His work has largely focused on the human impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been awarded The Pulitzer Prize twice, most recently in 2022.
James Hibberd is an American journalist and screenwriter. He is a current Editor at Large for The Hollywood Reporter again after a ten year stint at Entertainment Weekly. His work has been published in publications including The New York Times, Salon, Details, Cosmopolitan, and Amnesty International Magazine.
Jim Crumley is a Scottish journalist, a former newspaper editor and regular columnist for the Dundee Courier and The Scots Magazine. He is also the author of more than 40 books, mostly on the wildlife and wild landscapes of Scotland, many of them making the case for species reintroductions, or ‘rewilding’. His Seasons series, a quartet of books exploring the wildlife and landscapes and how climate change is affecting our environment across the four seasons, is highly acclaimed. The Nature of Autumn was longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2017 and shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Bookshop Literary Prize 2017. The Nature of Spring was BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. The Nature of Summer, published in 2020, was shortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize. His most recent book, Lakeland Wild, is his first to focus entirely on an English landscape.
