Iain Hepburn is an award-winning journalist and scriptwriter from Glasgow, Scotland.
He started his career as a trainee journalist with the Aberdeen Press and Journal in 1996, joining straight from school as part of that paper's first wave of indentured reporters.
Among the major news stories he covered during his time there was the death of Princess Diana, reporting from Balmoral.
In 2000 he was appointed online editor at film and TV magazine SFX, overseeing a 10-fold increase in the site's users, before joining dotcom wire service Netimperative to cover the media, new media and marketing sectors.
He joined the Manchester Evening News as an senior online journalist in 2002 where, during a three year spell, he was also appointed technology editor of the acclaimed music and lifestyle magazine City Life, until its closure in 2005.
After taking a career break to go travelling around America by train, and edit an successful sports book, he joined the Daily Mirror's digital operation in 2006, helping spearhead its multimedia content and producing (and occasionally presenting) it's acclaimed Football Spy vodcast.
In 2008 he moved back to his native Glasgow after being appointed digital editor of the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail newspapers - winning the Multimedia Journalist of the Year award at the 2009 Scottish Press Awards.
He has also contributed to Dreamwatch Magazine and the Times Educational Supplement among other newsstand titles.