James Cox (journalist)

James Cox
Born(1941-11-14)14 November 1941
Harrow, Middlesex, England
Died24 September 2024(2024-09-24) (aged 82)
Occupation(s)Journalist, presenter
Notable credit(s)The World This Weekend
Good Morning Scotland

James Heddle Cox (14 November 1941 – 24 September 2024) was a British journalist and broadcaster who had a wide-ranging career in newspapers and in broadcasting in Scotland.[1]

After a spell with the Daily Record newspaper in Glasgow he worked on Public Account from 1975 with Donald MacCormick and Andrew Neil and presented Good Morning Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland for many years.

He became the BBC's North America Correspondent based in New York City in 1983 before returning to London as a BBC political correspondent at Westminster and then joining Newsnight on BBC2.

From 1994 to 2005 he was presenter of The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4.[2][3]

Cox died from complications of multiple sclerosis on 24 September 2024, at the age of 82.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Inside BBC Scotland by Alastair Hetherington p.48 (Whitewater Press),
  2. ^ "Programmes | The World this Weekend | James Cox". BBC News. 18 May 2000. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  3. ^ John Plunkett, Tributes paid to Radio 4 veteran, The Guardian, 9 August 2005
  4. ^ Orchard, Tim (11 October 2024). "James Cox obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
  5. ^ "James Cox obituary: tenacious yet popular World This Weekend presenter". The Times. 25 October 2024. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
Media offices
Preceded by
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 Political Editor: Newsnight
?–1994 		Succeeded by