Biographies

Presenter, Newsnight Scotland

Gordon Brewer has presented Newsnight Scotland since the programme began in 1999.

A graduate in Philosophy and English Literature from Edinburgh University, he began his career in journalism at The Shetland Times in 1980.

Gordon moved to the Sunday Standard (forerunner of the Sunday Herald) in Glasgow as business correspondent in 1983.

After the closure of the Standard he helped produce a special business supplement for The Scotsman before joining the business desk of The Herald.

In 1986 Gordon moved to London to work on The Scotsman's city desk.

Gordon joined the BBC in 1988 as Business Correspondent for network TV news and was appointed the BBC's Tokyo Correspondent the following year. He returned from the Far East in 1993 to join Newsnight in London, where he was a reporter and later a presenter.