Martin Williams: Senior News Reporter with The Herald and the Herald on Sunday.

He joined in 2003 and has a focus on investigative journalism. He was named Reporter of the Year in the 2025 Scottish Press Awards and has been a UK Regional Press Awards finalist for Daily Reporter of the Year for the fifth successive year in 2026 and shortlisted for Scoop of the Year and Specialist Journalist of the Year in the previous three years. He was a UK Regional Press Awards feature writer of the year finalist in 2025. His honours also include being the 2023 Scottish Press Awards Financial/Business Journalist of the Year and a British Journalism Awards finalist for 2022. In 2025 he was one of two to be recognised as 'fuel poverty heroes' at the Annual Fuel Poverty Awards organised by Energy Action Scotland for "relentless pursuit of fairness for everyone and energy justice" through written articles. In the 2020/21 UK Regional Press Awards he was named Business & Finance Journalist of the Year.

In the 2018 UK Regional Press Awards he came out of awards hiding to be named Data Journalist of the Year. Also tweets on @MWilliamsHT