Editorial Team
Peter Laing
Managing Editor
E: peter@deadlinenews.co.uk
DM: DeadlinePeter
M: 0796 836 7539 P: 0131 561 2230
Peter brings years of top level newspaper experience to this vital role. Prior to joining the agency he was working for The Times and Sunday Times Scotland having spent eight years as News Editor of Scotland on Sunday.
He trained with local papers in the south of England before joining the Edinburgh Evening News in 1992, eventually becoming Crime Reporter.
He moved to the Daily Record in 1996 as a general reporter based in its Edinburgh office, before he was appointed home affairs correspondent with Scotland on Sunday and later Chief Reporter before running the busy news desk.
Duncan Simpson
Photographer
E: duncan@deadlinenews.co.uk
Tel: 0798 935 9845
Born in Edinburgh, Duncan studied photography in the capital before spending some time working abroad.
He returned home to work as a freelance photographer before joining Deadline News.
Neil Pooran
Multimedia journalist
E: Neil@deadlinenews.co.uk
DM: DeadlineNeil
M: 07920 810839 P: 0131 561 2234
Neil is the newset recruit to Deadline’s reporting team. Neil, 23, from Glasgow, has just finished a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism in Cardiff. Before that he studied politics at Edinburgh University.
Claire McKim
Multimedia Journalist
M: 07779234981 P: 0131 561 2232
Claire joined Deadline in December 2011 after reporting for a local Scottish weekly newspaper.
After graduating with a degree in Journalism from Napier University, Claire has also worked for a Scottish daily title, an entertainment magazine and as a production assistant for BBC Radio Scotland.