Alan Douglas

Alan Douglas (born Dundee, 16 October 1951) is a journalist and broadcaster.

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 newspapers 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 motoring correspondent of Scottish Field magazine and contributor to Saga Radio, ITV's official motoring website www.carkeys.co.uk and the BBC.

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. Douglas has two adult daughters, two step children and five grandchildren.

Sources

Whos Who In Scotland 2003 edition (Carrick Media, Kilmarnock) ISBN 9-780946-724529