Anne MacKenzie (journalist)
| Anne Mackenzie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Anne Erica Isobel Mackenzie 10 March 1960 Stornoway, Isle of Lewis |
| Education |
Nicholson Institute, Stornoway Glasgow University |
| Occupation | Newsreader; TV presenter |
| Notable credit(s) |
Reporting Scotland (BBC) North Tonight (ITV) Crossfire (ITV) We The Jury (ITV) Newsnight Scotland (BBC) The World Tonight (BBC R4) Four Corners (BBC R4) |
| Spouse(s) | Neil McConaghy (1992-present) |
Anne Erica Isobel Mackenzie (born 10 March 1960) is a former BBC political and current affairs presenter. Mackenzie worked as a newscaster between 1981 and 1997. She started her career with Grampian TV, in Aberdeen, before joining BBC Scotland in 1995. She became a political and current affairs presenter in 1998, anchoring several BBC network programmes. Mackenzie was also part of the Newsnight Scotland team, with BBC Scotland, from its launch in October 1999 to July 2007. She could also be heard fronting factual programmes for BBC Radio 4 in London. She is not known to have worked in these roles after 2007.
Mackenzie was born in Stornoway and grew up on the peninsula of Point, Outer Hebrides. Her mother Katie Ann (née Maclean), was a midwife, and her father Donald (1924-1996) was a postmaster at his parents' post office in Portnaguran. Donald Mackenzie also fought in the Second World War. She has one brother, Lewis, who has a PhD in physics and is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.
Mackenzie'A paternal grandparents were Donald (1880-1967) and Annie Mackenzie (née MacDonald; 1900-1987). They were married on 29 June 1921 in Aberdeen before returning home. They ran the Portnaguran Post Office beside their house in Aird Point for most of their lives, where it is assumed they met. After a period of disuse, the old postal building was knocked down in 2012, and the land beside the family house remains unused. Donald Mackenzie was a descendant of The Hon. Alexander Mackenzie (1680-1757), the second son of Kenneth Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth and his wife Lady Frances Herbert, the eldest child of William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis and Lady Elizabeth Somerset (daughter of The 2nd Marquess of Worcester).
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