About Holyrood magazine

Holyrood magazine is the fortnightly insiders guide to understanding the complexity of Scottish politics and how policy effects civic society.

Staunchly independent in its reporting and opinions the magazine is not tied, in anyway, to a political party or point of view, Holyrood magazine is written with style, force, intelligence and wit communicating vital information with clarity and insight.

The magazine is packed with the most up to date information, advance intelligence, interviews and profiles providing an insight into the personalities affecting your organisation. Holyrood seeks to make complex ideas and issues accessible and enjoyable.

Holyrood magazine is recognised in the wider world of journalism being quoted regularly in the Scottish press and broadcast media.

Our Editor, Mandy Rhodes, is the current PPA Feature writer of the Year and was shortlisted for the 2007 Scottish Daily Newspaper Society Political Journalist of the Year.  

Content

Holyrood magazine is published every two weeks throughout the Parliamentary year, designed and printed to the highest standard to ensure the perfect environment and production standards for your advertisement.

Holyrood has the lowest advertising to editorial ratio of any magazine in Scotland, currently around 80:20. This ensures that your advertisement and your message is always facing or sitting below editorial matter and achieves the maximum impact possible.

This is supported by in house research stating that 69% read the advertisements within the magazine while 15% read all of them.

News

Independent, authoritative and balanced coverage with regular exclusives setting the agenda for the media throughout the UK. Complemented by our free daily online politics and policy news service Holyrood Today (subscribe here).

Analysis

In-depth reporting of issues that impact on Scottish civic society, the Focus and Insight pages challenge policymakers to act while the Interview gives an unrivalled understanding of what drives our senior politicians.
 

Interviews

Interviews with   Scotland’s politicians and   movers and shakers allow an insight into how they may react to your organisations stance on key issues.

Foreword

The editorial foreword written by Mandy Rhodes is read avidly by politicians and government leading the news debate in Scotland each week. The leader column is generally on the subject highlighted on the cover as our primary content focus. See editorial calendar for details.

Portfolios

Illuminating the main areas of policy and governance, our specialists bring you interviews with the key players, analysis and inside-track comment on:

• health and wellbeing
• transport
• education
• justice
• business

Local Government

The only publication that dedicates coverage of Scotland’s local authorities promoting informed debate, openness and joined up thought between national and local elected members and officials. Scotland’s most respected local government commentator David Scott writes every issue backed up by our in house team, interviews and guest contributors.

Opinion

Astute comment from some of the best observers of the Scottish political scene. David Scott, Jeremy Peat, Jim Sillars, John Curtice and Keith Aitken provide a compelling critique of people in power and a sage view of how events might unfold. Douglas Fraser’s view from The Tower, Shona Main’s The Main Point and the inimitable Rab McNeil; Letters; and Wholly Rude, our irreverent take on political life.

Letters

A platform for anyone and everyone to be published if the stance is cohesive and written in an interesting way

Tracker

Is compiled by our research team and is the highest traffic section of the magazine tracking legislation through Parliament and implementation through the Scottish Executive. Every issue sixteen pages are dedicated to:

Parliamentary activity

• Forthcoming business in the Scottish Parliament
• Main Chamber activity with a focus on First Minister's Questions
• Cross Party Group diary and index
• Reports from the Committees of the Scottish Parliament

Legislation

• Proposed Member Bills
• Progress of Members Bills and Private legislation
• Westminster tracker
• EU tracker
• Executive Legislation in progress

Scottish Government

• Current and forthcoming Executive Consultations
• Executive publications

Special Reports

Within each edition, a ‘magazine-in-a-magazine’ section is devoted exclusively to a single Portfolio subject. See Special Reports calendar for full details.   

Holyrood magazine editorial lookahead

The following lookahead is designed to offer an insight into what we are publishing within the magazine over the next few months. It is subject to change and invariably is updated on a daily basis, therefore please speak to your Holyrood representative to confirm specific subject and content details.

For full details on Holyrood Reports click here