James Cox is a British journalist and broadcaster who had a wide ranging career in newspapers and in broadcasting in Scotland. After a spell with the Daily Record newspaper in Glasgow he worked on Public Account with Donald MacCormick and Andrew Neil and presented Good Morning Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland for many years. He became the BBC's North America Correspondent based in New York in the 1980s before returning to London as a BBC political correspondent at Westminster and then joining Newsnight on BBC2. From 1994 he was presenter of The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4.