Catriona Shearer
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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.
Early life
Shearer grew up in Shotts, North Lanarkshire. Her father was a photographer and social worker and her mother was a primary school worker.[1] She has one older brother.[2] She daughter of graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism.[3][4]
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.[5]
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 ScotlandTemplate:'s breakfast bulletins on weekdays and is a stand-in anchor for the main 6:30pm evening programme.[6]
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.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Personal life
Shearer married engineer David Balfour on 4 January 2014 at Edinburgh Castle.[7] They live in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, and have two daughters, born on 17 January 2016 and 17 March 2018.[8][9]
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External links
- Catriona Shearer at bbc.co.uk