Tributes to ‘thoughtful, kind’ former journalist

Tributes have been paid to a Scottish journalist after his death at the age of 64. Jim Morrison, a former deputy editor of the Evening News, died at his home in Leith last week.

Jim held a series of senior positions in national and local newspapers as well as in television and public relations.

An investigative reporter on 1980s TV series the Cook Report, he later returned to newspapers where he had begun his career. He was features editor and deputy news editor at the Daily Record, before working as news editor and deputy editor of the Edinburgh Evening News from 2000, during which time the paper was named Scotland’s Newspaper of the Year.

Jim was a keen rugby player 0 Jim Morrison was deputy editor of the Evening News

for many years and later ran his own video production company.

Euan Mcgrory, current editor of the Evening News, said: “Jim was always a calming, incisive influence in the news room. He was also a kind and thoughtful man.”

He is survived by his daughter and two sons.