Catriona Shearer

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Catriona Shearer
NationalityScottish
SpouseDavid Balfour
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Catriona Shearer is a Scottish broadcast journalist and producer, who was a presenter on BBC Scotland's national news programme Reporting Scotland .

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Early life

Shearer graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism. [1] [2]

Career

After her graduation at Napier University in 2003, Shearer moved to London and joined BBC Radio 5 Live as a journalist and producer for the station's flagship news programmes - 5 Live Breakfast, Drive, The Midday News, and Weekend Breakfast. She later moved to Cardiff, working for BBC Radio Wales as a co-presenter for the Saturday afternoon sports show Sportstime and a producer on the station's entertainment, music and features output. [3]

Shearer later joined BBC Radio Scotland as a producer for news programmes Newsdrive and Scotland Live and presented traffic updates during the flagship breakfast programme Good Morning Scotland . She also presented a weekly online video podcast and worked on the radio quiz show Soundbites before becoming a television news presenter in 2007. Shearer currently presents Reporting Scotland's breakfast bulletins on weekdays and is a stand-in anchor for the main 6:30pm evening programme. [4]

Alongside Reporting Scotland, Shearer has also been involved with several BBC Scotland non-news programmes, including presenting a documentary on Pope Benedict XVI's tour visit to Scotland and a guest appearance on the football comedy series Only An Excuse? . As a keen music fan, she has also presented BBC Radio Scotland's overnight New Music Zone strand and has contributed to Kruger magazine and Gigwise. She is also a columnist for the Sunday edition of The Scottish Sun .

In May 2021, Shearer revealed on Twitter she would be leaving BBC Scotland after 16 years.[ citation needed ]

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References

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