List of former BBC newsreaders and journalists

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Over its history, the BBC has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide news reports and interviews. The following list as of October 2006 contains the names of those individuals who for whatever reason are no longer employed by the BBC in its news division BBC News.

Contents 1 B 2 C 3 D 4 F 5 G 6 H 7 J

[edit] B

• Richard Baker - The first person to read the BBC Television News in 1954, firstly in voiceover but later as the first to appear onscreen.
• Joan Bakewell - worked at the BBC on BBC Radio 4 and Newsnight on BBC Two
• Sue Beardsmore - presenter of the regional news programme for the Midlands: Midlands Today
• Jennie Bond - Royal Correspondent for BBC News for thirteen years until 2003

[edit] C

• Stephen Cole - presenter on BBC World and of technical programme Click Online
• Alistair Cooke - broadcaster, presented Letter from America until October 2004, he died later in the same month.

[edit] D

• Jill Dando - presenter of BBC News programmes as well as others including Holiday and Crimewatch UK until her death in 1999.
• Sir Robin Day - political broadcaster and commentator, he died in 2000.
• Robert Dougall - one of the first BBC Television News newsreaders, together with Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall. He died in 1999.

[edit] F

• Anna Ford - presenter of the One O'Clock News from 1999 until 2006. She had also worked across other BBC News programmes, having been the first female newsreader at ITN. She left the BBC in 2006 to follow other interests.
• Sir David Frost - veteran broadcaster, presented Breakfast with Frost from 1993 to 2005, when he left the corporation.

[edit] G

• Andrew Gilligan - journalist implicated in the Hutton Report of 2003 following his report on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme regarding the content of a British government briefing paper. Resigned following publication of the report's findings in the same year.

[edit] H

• Andrew Harvey - presenter of main BBC News programme as well as regional news programmes later including BBC Points West and South Today. Left the corporation to join rival ITN.
• Philip Hayton - veteran broadcaster, presented the One O'Clock News as well as regional news in the North of England. Presented on BBC World and BBC News 24, resigning from the corporation in 2005 citing "incompatibility" with his new co-presenter Kate Silverton. He had been with the BBC for 37 years.

[edit] J

• Darren Jordon - originally sports correspondent on BBC News 24, he moved up within the department to present BBC Breakfastand was later deputy presenter of the BBC One O'Clock News and weekend bulletins. He left the corporation in October 2006 to become a main presenter on the Al Jazeera English service, based in Doha.