Sheena McDonald
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Sheena Elizabeth McDonald (born 25 July 1954, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a British journalist and broadcaster.
She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1976 before gaining a postgraduate certificate in radio, film and television studies from the University of Bristol. She also co-founded the Edinburgh Festival Fringe newspaper Festival News with Garfield Kennedy.
Beginning her broadcasting career as presenter and newsreader at STV, she moved on to anchor such national radio and television news programmes as The World at One, Channel 4 News, The World This Week, After Dark and International Question Time and, in 1995, she received the first-ever 'Woman in Film and Television' Award.
In 1999 she was struck by a police van on its way to a 999 call in Clerkenwell, London.[1] She sustained massive head injuries, and it was almost five years before she returned to broadcasting, notably in a biographical documentary in which she spoke of her recuperation process and coming to terms with the psychological effects of her injury.[2]
She currently presents an education-focused news programme for the cable channel Teachers' TV.
