Jackie Bird
| Jackie Bird | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jackie Macpherson 31 July 1962 Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Occupation | Newsreader for BBC Scotland |
| Years active | 1980 - present |
Jackie Bird (née Macpherson, born 31 July 1962 in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire) is a Scottish journalist and newsreader, currently anchor of BBC Scotland's news programme Reporting Scotland. Bird is also the current host of Hogmanay Live in Scotland and appears on many BBC Scotland shows.
Bird was 17 when she started work for DC Thomson in Dundee working on teenage magazines and eventually became the pop editor at Jackie magazine. Subsequently she worked as a broadcast journalist on Radio Clyde's news team and then as a print journalist on the Glasgow Evening Times. After working as a reporter for The Sun newspaper, Bird joined Television South in Maidstone as a reporter and presenter for the South East edition of regional news programme Coast to Coast.
Bird left TVS to join BBC Scotland, making her debut as a main presenter of Reporting Scotland on Monday 16 October 1989. She currently shares the role as a sole anchor with veteran broadcaster Sally Magnusson. Alongside Reporting Scotland, she has also been a main presenter of key BBC Scotland event programming, including Hogmanay Live and the Scottish Children in Need opt-outs.
She is also a newspaper columnist and has written and produced comedy series The Lewis Lectures and Having it All for BBC Radio Scotland.
On 13 June 2012, Bird was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (D Litt) in a graduation ceremony at the University of Glasgow.
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