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Author Description Joan McAlpine is a former Scottish journalist and former Scottish National Party politician. She was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the South Scotland region from 2011 to 2021.<br /><br /> McAlpine attended St. Ninian's Primary School in Gourock and St. Columba's High School in Greenock. She has an MA (Hons) in Scottish History and Economic History from University of Glasgow. She also has a Postgraduate Diploma in newspaper journalism from City University in London. She was formerly married to the writer and musician Pat Kane, with whom she has two daughters.<br /><br />McAlpine began her career at the <i>Greenock Telegraph</i> in 1987. She went on to work for <i>The Scotsman</i> and <i>The Sunday Times</i>, where she won the Scottish Journalist of the Year award in 1999. In 2000 she was appointed editor of <i>The Sunday Times Scotland</i> and the following year became deputy editor of <i>The Herald</i>. She also wrote a weekly column for <i>The Scotsman</i> and the <i>Daily Record</i>. Her blog, <i>Go Lassie Go</i>, was voted the Scotblog Awards' top mainstream media blog in 2010.<br /><br />In 1994 McAlpine co-authored a book on the history of the anti-poll tax campaign, <i>A Time to Rage</i>, with the political activist <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13495333.Tommy_Sheridan" title="Tommy Sheridan" rel="nofollow noopener">Tommy Sheridan</a>. In 1999 a programme Border Television written and presented by McAlpine, <i>Crossing the Border</i>, received a commendation at the New York Television Festival.

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