Biographies

News reporter, BBC Scotland

Jamie McIvor joined the staff of BBC Scotland in 1999. He has enjoyed spells as Business Correspondent and Westminster Reporter and is currently a general news reporter across TV and radio programmes.

He has covered some of the biggest stories in Scotland for Reporting Scotland and BBC Radio Scotland. Occasionally he contributes to the BBC News channel and BBC network radio.

Jamie grew up in Kintyre and graduated from Strathclyde University in 1995 with a degree in Modern History and Politics and a postgraduate diploma in journalism.

While he was a student he contributed to some of Radio Scotland's feature programmes. But his ambition was always to work in news journalism.

After university, he worked briefly for The Oban Times then joined the Press and Journal in Aberdeen. He went on to work for the Press Association, in London, and Scotland On Sunday in Edinburgh.

Jamie's first job at the BBC was producing TV news summaries. A particularly proud moment came in October 2000 when he produced the first extended 10.25pm edition of Reporting Scotland after the BBC One network news moved to Ten O'Clock.

He soon became a stand-in radio and TV reporter but first came to the public's notice when he covered the events of September 11 for Radio Scotland and Reporting Scotland. Jamie was on holiday in New York at the time and remained in the city for more than a week afterwards.

On a lighter note, his live broadcasts from Princes Street in Edinburgh on Hogmanay 2006 were memorable for entirely different reasons. After the cancellation of the world-famous event, Jamie soldiered on and somehow continued to broadcast live on BBC One Scotland, BBC News 24 and BBC Radio 5 Live through gusts of around 80 mph and horizontal rain.