1. Career

2. Personal life

3. References

4. External links

Catriona Shearer (born 1981 in Glasgow){{Citation needed|date=February 2019}} is a Scottish journalist, broadcaster and producer, best known as a presenter for BBC Scotland's national news programme Reporting Scotland.

Shearer graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a BA (Hons) degree in Journalism.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}

Career

Shortly after graduation, Shearer joined BBC Radio 5 Live in 2003 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 BBC Radio Wales 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 BBC Radio Scotland as a producer for news programmes Newsdrive and Scotland Live and presented traffic updates during the flagship breakfast programme Good Morning Scotland. 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 Pope Benedict XVI's tour visit to Scotland and a guest appearance on the football comedy series Only An Excuse?. As a keen music fan, she has also been 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 the Scottish Sun.{{Citation needed|date=February 2019}}

She has had a number of embarrassing or unfortunate newsroom incidents, including unintentionally "announcing a female bomb victim as Nazi Rudolf Hess"^[1] and being taking ill while on-air with a migraine.^[1]

Personal life

Shearer became engaged in December 2011 to engineer David Balfour.^[2]

Her father, Willie Shearer, is a social worker. Her brother, Marc Shearer, was a member of the 1990s Britpop band Octapus.^[3][4]

She is also an ambassador for the Scottish children's charity, Aberlour, which supports disabled and disadvantaged children.^[5]

References

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