{"id":800771,"date":"2026-10-13T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800771\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:00:11","slug":"top-bbc-scotland-presenter-quits-after-14-years-amid-looming-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/800771\/","title":{"rendered":"Top BBC Scotland presenter quits after 14 years amid looming cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Anne McAlpine, who hosts the flagship news programme Reporting Scotland, revealed on Instagram that she is leaving the broadcaster after 14 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/national\/26202586.bbc-job-cuts-include-550-news-tv-radio-roles\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the broadcaster announced plans in June to make \u00a3160m to \u00a3500m in savings across the news, nations and content divisions<\/a> by 2028\/29.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Around 2000 jobs are expected to be cut across the broadcaster, with staff at Glasgow\u2019s Pacific Quay told in August that as many as 60 roles could be lost.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/26626903.scottish-tories-challenged-cash-developers-behind-huge-data-centres\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scottish Tories challenged over cash from developers behind huge data centres<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The broadcaster most recently announced 41 job losses at BBC Sport.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The BBC\u2019s latest annual report detailed how the corporation\u2019s financial outlook \u201cdeteriorated\u201d in the second half of 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There have also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/26610650.bbc-scotland-to-become-online-only-major-shake-up\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports that BBC Scotland will be cut from TV and will become online-only.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Announcing the move on Instagram, McAlpine wrote: \u201cI\u2019m leaving my permanent role with news at the end of next week and heading into a new chapter, with a huge amount of gratitude for the people, friendships, adventures and memories that have made it so special.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Matt Brittin has set out plans for cost savings in an email to staff (Lucy North\/PA)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere have been elections and documentaries, E\u00f2rpa and An L\u00e0, farms and parliaments, planes and boats, live television and long days in places I never expected to find myself \u2014 from Chernobyl to the Calais camp.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added: \u201cIt\u2019s been a blast. I\u2019ve learned an enormous amount, laughed, cried, travelled further than I ever could have imagined and met my wonderful husband along the way. I\u2019ve also somehow made it through 14 years\u2019 worth of BBC passwords.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThank you to everyone who\u2019s been part of it \u2014 colleagues, contributors, friends and all those who made the long days worthwhile. And of course, thank you to everyone who watched, listened and supported.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 40-year-old said she will continue working in broadcasting as a freelancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anne McAlpine, who hosts the flagship news programme Reporting Scotland, revealed on Instagram that she is leaving the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-800771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}