List of former BBC newsreaders and journalists
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This is a list of newsreaders and journalists formerly employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio.
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 names individuals who are no longer employed by the BBC in its news division BBC News.
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Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.
Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980. She currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4.
Robin Aitken – BBC journalist since 1978. Left in 2005, ending his career on BBC Radio 4's Today. Aitken published Can We Trust the BBC?
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