The Scotsman has undergone many changes since the 1980s
After visiting the hotel which had taken over The Scotsman‘s former offices on North Bridge, Chris Baur, who edited the paper in the mid-1980s, joked that his former deputy’s office had been turned into a toilet.
It was a quip made with a sense of humour and a reflection on how the paper had lost some of its status in departing its grand headquarters in the heart of Edinburgh.
Mr Baur, who has died aged 83, also worked for the Financial Times, the BBC and Scottish Business Insider.
He joined The Scotsman as a copy boy in 1960 and trained as a journalist, becoming the industrial reporter in 1963 as well as covering Scottish politics from 1972.
In 1973 he was appointed Scottish correspondent of the Financial Times and political correspondent of BBC Scotland? During this period, he made a programme for BBC Two called “Power of Scotland” which won the Royal Television Society’s Journalism Award for the ‘best current affairs documentary programme’ of 1978.
In 1978 he became an assistant editor at The Scotsman, writing on politics and economic affairs. He became deputy editor, before being appointed editor between 1985 and 1988 when it was still published in broadsheet format.
After a brief return to the Financial Times he became editor of Scottish Business Insider and managing director of the Insider Group.
He was one of the team of four directors who sold the magazine to the Daily Record in 2001.
In the late 1990s he wrote a regular column for The Sunday Times Scotland.
Born in Surrey, he was raised in Scotland from the age of three and was educated at Dalhousie Preparatory School and Strathallan School in Perthshire.
He died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 23 January and leave a widow Jaqueline (Jackie) and sons Mark, Paul, Peter and David.
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