Biographies

Editor, Continuous News, BBC Scotland

Mark Coyle is Editor, Continuous News, BBC Scotland.

He is in charge of the BBC Scotland news website, bbc.co.uk/scotlandnews, hourly bulletins on BBC Radio Scotland and parts of the TV news output.

His team also produces BBC Scotland's Ceefax and digital text pages.

Mark has worked over a range of media, starting out as a reporter for the Mearns Leader between 1984 and November 1986. He then became a senior reporter at the Evening Express in Aberdeen for three years.

In 1989 Mark decided to change from working in the printed press and was News Editor at Northsound Radio.

He left Northsound in 1993 to start his first BBC job at BBC Radio Cumbria in Carlisle where he became Assistant Editor.

In July 1997 he moved to London as a Senior Broadcast journalist at BBC Radio 5 Live.

August 1997 saw him move away from radio to join BBC News Online as a duty editor prior to its launch in November that year.

Two years later, he moved to Glasgow to manage the launch of the Scotland section of the website and to oversee similar launches in Northern Ireland and Wales.

In March 2001, he headed a project to launch 12 teams of online journalists across the English Regions.

After completing this work in 2003 he returned to Glasgow but also took on the part-time role of leading the editorial development of News Interactive teams in the Nations & Regions.

Mark helped BBC Scotland achieve the BT Scotland News Website of the Year three years in a row.

Born in Aberdeen in 1965, he was educated in Newtonhill and Stonehaven and attended Mackie Academy.