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

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Early life

Shearer graduated from

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with a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism.

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

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as a co-presenter for the Saturday afternoon sports show ''Sportstime'' and a producer on the station's entertainment, music and features output. Shearer later joined

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as a producer for news programmes ''Newsdrive'' and ''Scotland Live'' and presented traffic updates during the flagship breakfast programme ''

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''. 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. Alongside ''Reporting Scotland'', Shearer has also been involved with several BBC Scotland non-news programmes, including presenting a documentary on

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's tour visit to Scotland and a guest appearance on the football comedy series ''

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''. 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 ''

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''. In May 2021, Shearer revealed on

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she would be leaving BBC Scotland after 16 years.

References

External links

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