Alan Douglas
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Alan Douglas is a journalist
and broadcast
er.
Douglas was a reporter and then studio presenter on BBC
Scotland
's evening news programme Reporting Scotland
from 1978 to 1996.
Alan Douglas left Reporting Scotland and BBC Scotland
in 1996 where he teamed up with his wife Viv Lumsden
to co-present Scottish
Television
's BAFTA-winning style programme, The Home Show for six years.
He has worked on newspaper
s and radio
throughout his journalistic career which has spanned over forty years. Douglas is now a director of The Broadcasting Business Ltd, a media consultancy specialising in media awareness and presentation skills training and crisis management. The company has a huge range of UK and international clients and is involved in the handling of many major issues both in the UK and abroad.
Douglas still writes extensively about driving and cars as a freelance motoring correspondent; contributing editor to www.scotcars.co.uk; contributor to BBC Radio and TV Scotland and ITV
's official motoring website www.carkeys.co.uk
He is a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists
and holds a car, bus, lorry
and motorbike licence and is a former Regional Journalist of the Year of the Guild of Motoring Writers.
He lives in Glasgow
with his wife, broadcaster Viv Lumsden. Douglas has two adult daughters, two step children and seven grandchildren.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
and broadcast
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...
er.
Douglas was a reporter and then studio presenter on BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
's evening news programme Reporting Scotland
Reporting Scotland
Reporting Scotland is BBC Scotland's national television news programme. The programme first aired on 1 April 1968, with three main presenters - the most famous being Mary Marquis...
from 1978 to 1996.
Alan Douglas left Reporting Scotland and BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...
in 1996 where he teamed up with his wife Viv Lumsden
Viv Lumsden
Vivien Dale Victoria Lumsden was a newsreader on the Scottish TV news programme, Scotland Today for nine years. Before Scottish TV, she worked on BBC Scotland's Reporting Scotland from 1984 to 1989....
to co-present Scottish
Scottish Television
Scottish Television is Scotland's largest ITV franchisee, and has held the ITV franchise for Central Scotland since 31 August 1957. It is the second oldest ITV franchisee still active...
Television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
's BAFTA-winning style programme, The Home Show for six years.
He has worked on newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
s and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
throughout his journalistic career which has spanned over forty years. Douglas is now a director of The Broadcasting Business Ltd, a media consultancy specialising in media awareness and presentation skills training and crisis management. The company has a huge range of UK and international clients and is involved in the handling of many major issues both in the UK and abroad.
Douglas still writes extensively about driving and cars as a freelance motoring correspondent; contributing editor to www.scotcars.co.uk; contributor to BBC Radio and TV Scotland and ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's official motoring website www.carkeys.co.uk
He is a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists
Institute of Advanced Motorists
The Institute of Advanced Motorists is a charity based in the United Kingdom and serving nine countries, whose objective is to improve car driving and motorcycle riding standards, and so enhance road safety, through the proper use of a system of car and motorcycle control based on Roadcraft...
and holds a car, bus, lorry
Lorry
-Transport:* Lorry or truck, a large motor vehicle* Lorry, or a Mine car in USA: an open gondola with a tipping trough* Lorry , a horse-drawn low-loading trolley-In fiction:...
and motorbike licence and is a former Regional Journalist of the Year of the Guild of Motoring Writers.
He lives in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
with his wife, broadcaster Viv Lumsden. Douglas has two adult daughters, two step children and seven grandchildren.