John MacKay

JOHN MACKAY is a Scottish broadcast journalist and STV News presenter. John is co-anchor on STV News at Six and presenter on Scotland Tonight, the country's most popular news and current affairs programmes. A highly-respected journalist with over 30 years’ experience, John has covered many of the biggest news stories in Scotland in recent times and has been witness to Scotland’s transformation as a society and a nation which he charts in non-fiction title, Notes of a Newsman.

John’s fiction writing draws upon the oral traditions of his Hebridean background with a trilogy of bestselling novels set in the Isle of Lewis, the first of which has been adapted for the big screen. His fourth novel, a sweeping Hebridean story, Home, follows the stories of one family over 100 years.