On Thursday, Scotland will decide whether it wishes to remain part of the U.K.
I’m working on a Twitter list of people covering the story. Email me or tweet at me to let me know whom I should add. I got a bunch of names from Twitter UK’s great list of journalists covering the referendum.
A torch and a flag at Carter Bar, on the Scotland-England border, in 2013. (Photograph by Andrew Beaujon)
One of my best sources for reading material isn’t a journalist: Mogwai guitarist Stuart Braithwaite is a firehose of Yes-vote information. (I also put Edinburgh author Ian Rankin on my list, because I just sort of feel like the creator of Rebus should be on there.) The hashtag to follow, which will get very noisy in the next couple of days, is #indyref.
Some of the journalists covering the story:
The Guardian’s Scotland correspondents Libby Brooks and Severin Carrell are, as you may expect, covering this story. Defense correspondent Ewen MacAskill is north of Hadrian’s Wall this week, as is Frances Perraudin. Nick Watt, Martin Kettle and Andrew Sparrow will be covering the vote (Sparrow will live-blog). The news organization has also dispatched journalists to report outside of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Esther Addley will be in the Shetland Islands, for example, and Ben Quinn will be in Aberdeen.
The New York Times has London bureau chief Steven Erlanger and reporters Stephen Castle and Katrin Bennhold on the story, as well as videographer Erik Olsen. Alan Cowell is due to join them Wednesday.
The Washington Post will have London bureau chief Griff Witte in Scotland.
BuzzFeed has Siraj Datoo on the scene.
The Associated Press has reporter Jill Lawless, photographer Matt Dunham and TV news producer Martin Benedyk on the story.
The venerable (since 2007!) blog Bella Caledonia covers the referendum from a fiercely pro-independence perspective and has a valuable Twitter feed.
Disclosures: My wife is from Edinburgh and has dual citizenship, as do our kids.
