Harry Reid (born Glasgow 1947) is a Scottish journalist and author, best known for having been the editor of The Herald newspaper in Scotland.
In 1973 he was the paper's first full-time education correspondent and in 1977 he became The Scotsman's features and literary editor.
In 1981 he moved to Glasgow to be sports and leisure editor on the short-lived Sunday Standard.
To help with the research he was given a visiting fellowship by the Faculty of Divinity, New College, Edinburgh.
The resultant book, Outside Verdict: An Old Church in the New Scotland was published by Saint Andrew Press[2] Other books include: Dear Country: A Quest for England (Mainstream Publishing, 1991); The Final Whistle: Scottish Football - The Best and Worst of Times (Birlinn Limited, 2005); Deadline: The Story of the Scottish Press (Saint Andrew Press in association with the BBC, 2006)[3] and Reformation: The Dangerous Birth of the Modern World (Saint Andrew Press, 2009) [4]