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 The Today Programme. Aitken published Can We Trust the BBC? (Continuum Press) in February 2007, which asserted the BBC was guilty of an "unconscious, institutionalised Leftism" George Alagiah - Longtime presenter of BBC News bulletins on BBC One. He died in 2023 after a long battle with cancer. Juliet Alexander – presenter Ebony 1982–1990 the BBC’s first Black news and current affairs magazine TV programme. Reporter John Craven’s Newsround. Presenter Black Londoners on BBC radio London. Presenter Songs of Praise. Reporter BBC Newsround SE. Presenter Woman's Hour BBC radio 4. Presenter After Sugar What? A Radio 4 series about diversification in the Caribbean. Presenter Careering Ahead. Kay Alexander – main presenter on Midlands Today. She retired in 2012 after nearly 40 years of continuous service. Linda Alexander – reporter and presenter on Newsnight from 1980 until 1983. She died in 2015. She was married to the BBC's former political editor David Holmes. Kenneth Allsop – reporter for Tonight in the 1960s. He died in 1973. Marjorie Anderson – leading BBC radio broadcaster on the World War II BBC Forces Programme, and from 1945 on the BBC Light Programme. She died in 1999. Durdana Ansari, OBE – spent 22 years producing, directing, and interviewing personalities for the following BBC World Service programmes: The World Today, Asian Network (Urdu), Outlook, Meridian, English Teaching Programme, and BBC Urdu Service. Currently an entrepreneur, public speaker and activist for female empowerment. Natalia Antelava, former BBC correspondent, co-founder of journalism start-up Coda Story where she is editor-in-chief. Alice Arnold – newsreader, mainly on BBC Radio 4 from 2004 to 2012. She is married to sports presenter Clare Balding. Michael Aspel – one of the early BBC Television newsreaders, together with Robert Dougall, Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall. He has since hosted This is Your Life and Antiques Roadshow and he hosted the children's programmes Crackerjack and Ask Aspel during the 1970s, as well as quizzes such as Give Us a Clue and Child's Play during the 1980s. Mark Austin – former BBC journalist and Sports Correspondent for BBC News, from 1982 to 1986. He joined ITN in 1986 as Sports Correspondent. Now a US correspondent for Sky News. Khalid Aziz – main presenter and reporter on Look North in Leeds during the 1970s and early 1980s. He left to join Television South on its inception in 1982.