Ian White is the face of the Look North bulletin which is part of the BBC Ten O'Clock News which goes out on BBC One.

He has been Look North's late night newsreader 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 newsreader"
From an early age Ian wanted to be a newsreader joining a hospital radio station in Newcastle as a volunteer at the age of sixteen 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 - news reading, 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.

A change in Peter Levy's work pattern created an opportunity for Ian to start presenting Look North bulletins and he's never looked back.

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 goes on: "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 2225 programme you'll see that's not the case.

We are constantly looking for new items and updating stories that have been running in our other programmes across the day. It's also nice to know that hundreds of thousands of people turn to the late evening bulletin to catch up with what's been going on."