 | | Ian White |
He has been Look North's late night news reader since 1998 and has also been the regular evening news producer and presenter on four BBC Local Radio stations - York, Humberside, Sheffield and Leeds. "I always wanted to be a news reader" From an early age Ian wanted to be a news reader joining a hospital radio station in Newcastle as a volunteer at the age of 16 to get some experience of talking into a microphone. That involved everything from compiling and reading news bulletins to collecting record requests from patients on the wards. It also created a 'chance meeting' when Ian met a TV producer who then offered him a job when he left school. Ian then spent three years in Norwich, working as a researcher and journalist on the regional news programme BBC Look East. There was also a successful time at BBC Radio Norfolk where Ian had a go at just about everything - newsreading, reporting, producing and presenting. BBC Radio Leeds In 1996, Ian made the move to Leeds taking over the production and presentation of the evening radio bulletins and teaming up with Liz Green and Andrew Edwards to read the news on the BBC Radio Leeds Breakfast Show. There's more to Ian's job than just reading the news though. He also produces news programmes and is part of the Look North management team. A Geordie now living near Selby, Ian says: "It's great to be part of such a popular and successful news team working in such an exciting news area. Over the past six years in Leeds I've been able to report on some of the biggest news stories in the UK." On the Scene Ian explains: "I was one of the first TV journalists on the scene of the Selby rail crash and was reading bulletins on the night two Leeds United fans were fatally stabbed in Turkey. Some would say nothing ever happens in the evenings but if you watch our 10.25pm programme you'll see that's not the case." | 
