Roger Cox

Roger Cox has been writing about surfing in The Scotsman since 2005 and has contributed a weekly outdoors column to the paper since 2009, majoring on surfing, skiing and snowboarding but also taking in everything from clibing and kayaking to spear-fishing and long-distance paragliding. He has been the paper's arts editor since 2013 and in 2020 he won Innovation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards for establishing the Scotsman Sessions - a series of video performances recorded by artists all around Scotland, introduced by Scotsman arts critics.