Profile
Frank Gilfeather is an experienced journalist, broadcaster and public relations consultant.
Born in Dundee, he moved to Aberdeen in April 1969 as a news reporter on the Press & Journal and the Evening Express. He was one of the evening paper's first industrial writers when oil began to grab the headlines in the early 1970s. Later he became chief sportswriter and deputy sports editor on the Evening Express.
He left Aberdeen Journals in 1977 and was a freelance journalist for more than three years, working on news and sport for a number of national newspapers, BBC Radio Scotland and Grampian Television.
Frank joined Grampian Television's staff as sports correspondent in 1980 and covered the successful European campaign of Aberdeen Football Club and other successes during the club's Alex Ferguson era. He later turned his journalistic expertise to television news reporting, producing and presenting and has covered two general elections which included live reports for ITN News.
He set up Frank Gilfeather Associates in 1989 and still applies his journalistic expertise not only for the benefit of the company but with freelance writing for national newspapers like the Daily Record, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express as well as broadcasting for Sky Sports and other media organisations. He wrote a weekly column for the national broadsheet newspaper, The Herald and now covers sport for that paper as well news and sport for The Sunday Herald and football for The Times. In addition, he writes a weekly comment column for the Evening Express and a television column for that paper.
He is in demand for after-dinner and compering assignments throughout the North-east and has chaired a number of public forums including Scottish Enterprise Grampian's Week of the Entrepreneur.
His years as a journalist and broadcaster as well as his experience as a public relations consultant has allowed him to build an impressive list of contacts not only in the media but in the fields of sport, the arts, business and politics.
Frank is a former Scottish amateur boxing champion and internationalist. He enjoys writing plays. His first, The Harp & the Violet, was produced at Dundee Rep in 1991.
