This is a list of newsreaders and journalists formerly employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio.

The BBC has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide news reports and interviews. The following list names individuals who are no longer employed by the BBC in its news division BBC News.

A Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s. Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980. She currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4. Robin Aitken – BBC journalist since 1978. Left in 2005, ending his career on BBC Radio 4's Today. Aitken published Can We Trust the BBC? (Continuum Press) in February 2007, which asserted the BBC was guilty of an "unconscious, institutionalised Leftism" George Alagiah – longtime chief presenter of BBC News bulletins on BBC One and BBC World News. Before becoming a presenter, he was Developing World correspondent, based in London, and then Southern Africa correspondent in Johannesburg. As one of the BBC's leading foreign correspondents, he reported on events ranging from the genocide in Rwanda to the plight of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq to the civil wars in Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia. He died in 2023 after a long battle with cancer. Juliet Alexander – presenter of Ebony 1982–1990 the BBC's first Black news and current affairs magazine TV programme. Reporter on John Craven's Newsround. Presenter of Black Londoners on BBC Radio London. Presenter of Songs of Praise. Reporter on BBC Newsround SE. Presenter on Woman's Hour BBC Radio 4. Presenter of After Sugar What? A Radio 4 series about diversification in the Caribbean. Presenter of Careering Ahead. Kay Alexander – main presenter on Midlands Today. She retired in 2012 after nearly 40 years of continuous service. Linda Alexander – reporter and presenter on Newsnight from 1980 until 1983. She died in 2015. She was married to the BBC's former political editor David Holmes. Kenneth Allsop – reporter for Tonight in the 1960s. He died in 1973. Uduak Amimo – presenter, producer and correspondent of the BBC World Service programme Focus on Africa and BBC Network Africa from 2002 until her departure from the BBC in 2011. Marjorie Anderson – leading BBC radio broadcaster on the World War II BBC Forces Programme, and from 1945 on the BBC Light Programme. She died in 1999. Durdana Ansari, OBE – spent 22 years producing, directing, and interviewing personalities for the following BBC World Service programmes: The World Today, Asian Network (Urdu), Outlook, Meridian, English Teaching Programme and BBC Urdu Service. Currently an entrepreneur, public speaker and activist for female empowerment. Natalia Antelava – former BBC correspondent, co-founder of journalism start-up Coda Media where she is editor-in-chief. Alice Arnold – newsreader, mainly on BBC Radio 4 from 2004 to 2012. She is married to sports presenter Clare Balding. Michael Aspel – one of the early BBC television newsreaders, together with Robert Dougall, Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall. He has since hosted This is Your Life and Antiques Roadshow and he hosted the children's programmes Crackerjack and Ask Aspel during the 1970s, as well as quizzes such as Give Us a Clue and Child's Play during the 1980s. Mark Austin – former BBC journalist and sports correspondent for BBC News, from 1982 to 1986. He joined ITN in 1986 as sports correspondent. Now works for Sky News. Khalid Aziz – main presenter and reporter on Look North in Leeds during the 1970s and early 1980s. He left to join TVS on its inception in 1982.

B Terry Baddoo – reporter and presenter on Newsround during the late-1980s. He later worked as a sports presenter and reporter on BBC Breakfast and BBC World and presented World Sport on CNN International. Brian Baines – main presenter and announcer on BBC Look North during the 1970s and 1980s, eventually retiring from the programme in 1988. He died in 2006. Richard Baker – first to read the BBC TV news in 1954 (in voiceover). He continued to work as a newsreader until his retirement in 1982. He also presented the BBC's coverage of the Proms, as well as Start the Week and Baker's Dozen on Radio 4, in addition to narrating the children's series Teddy Edward and Mary, Mungo and Midge for the BBC. He died in 2018. Joan Bakewell – worked on BBC Radio 4 and Newsnight on BBC Two. She also presented Late Night Line Up during the 1960s and Heart of the Matter during the 1980s. She was created Baroness Bakewell in 2011. Matt Barbet – presenter on BBC London and previously Radio 1's Newsbeat until he moved to Five News in October 2007. Gareth Barlow – presenter on BBC Radio 4's Farming Today and BBC World Service before joining the BBC News Channel. In August 2023 he came to international attention following a blooper he made while presenting a late night BBC news programme. Starting the 10pm bulletin, he said "I'm watching– I'm watching BBC News? I'm Gareth Barlow. You're watching BBC News." Joined Sky News to present the network's breakfast show alongside Kay Burley. Michael Barratt – main anchor on Nationwide from 1969 until 1977, having previously worked as a reporter on Midlands Today. He also presented a number of other television and radio programmes, including Songs of Praise and Gardeners' Question Time. He was married to fellow-former Nationwide presenter Dilys Morgan. He died in 2022. Brian Barron – long-serving BBC foreign correspondent, reporting from many war-zones and trouble-spots around the world during the 1980s and 1990s. He died in 2009. Paul Barry – reporter and presenter on The Money Programme, Newsnight and Panorama from 1978 until 1986. He then moved to Australia, where he has since continued his journalistic career. Raymond Baxter – long-serving presenter and commentator on many significant BBC outside broadcasts, usually alongside Richard Dimbleby, most notably the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and the funerals of King George VI and Winston Churchill in 1952 and 1965 respectively. He was best known as the main presenter on Tomorrow's World from 1965 until 1977. He died in 2006. Sue Beardsmore – long-serving presenter of the regional news programme for the Midlands: Midlands Today, from 1983 until 2003. Bruce Belfrage – announcer and newsreader on BBC radio during the Second World War. He became famous for having read the nine o'clock news on 15 October 1940 when Broadcasting House was hit by a German bomb: Belfrage carried on as if nothing had happened. He died in 1974. Martin Bell – prolific world affairs correspondent covering many conflicts in 30 years as a reporter until leaving the BBC in 1997 to become a politician Chris Bickerton – presenter of the BBC World Service programme Focus on Africa for 30 years in the 1970s and 1980s. He died in 2002. Ashley Blake – presenter and reporter on BBC London News and Watchdog during the early 2000s: he also briefly presented Breakfast. He then presented Midlands Today in his native Birmingham, until he was sacked in 2009 following a criminal court case. Rachael Bland – originally worked as a presenter on BBC Radio Wiltshire, before moving to BBC Radio 5 Live and to the BBC News Channel, where she worked as a relief and weekend presenter. In 2011, she became a main presenter on North West Tonight, while continuing to work on Radio 5 Live. She died in September 2018, following a well-publicised battle with breast cancer. Jasmine Bligh – one of the first three BBC Television Service presenters in the 1930s. She died in 1991. Claire Bolderson – presented Newshour on BBC World Service and The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4. Left on 20 March 2012 Jennie Bond – main co-presenter of the Six O'Clock News and royal correspondent for BBC News for 13 years until 2003. Anna Botting – originally worked for Granada Television, before becoming a reporter for BBC North in 1991, and then a main presenter on Look North. She left in 1995 to become a presenter on Sky News, where she continues to work to this day. She is the daughter of Louise Botting. Louise Botting, CBE – presenter of BBC Radio 4's Money Box from 1977 to 1992. She is the mother of Anna Botting. Frank Bough – long-serving presenter on Nationwide and the first main anchor on Breakfast Time. He was also the main anchor on Grandstand during the 1970s and early-1980s and he later hosted the BBC's Holiday programme. He died in 2020. Bernard Braden – eponymous presenter of Braden's Week, a consumer affairs programme, which ran from 1967 until 1972. He had previously presented On The Braden Beat, a very similar show, which ran on ITV from 1962 until 1967, and he was well known as an actor and comedian. He died in 1993. He was married to fellow television presenter Barbara Kelly. Melvyn Bragg – began as a BBC general trainee in 1961 and then worked in the World Service, the Third Programme and the Home Service. He was later a presenter on Start the Week from 1988 until 1998, but he is best known as the presenter and editor of LWT's The South Bank Show from 1978 until 2010. He was created Baron Bragg in 1998. Chris Brasher – athlete, and reporter for Tonight in the 1960s. He died in 2003. Julian Bray – freelance news and current affairs, lifestyle broadcaster from 1970 to 1984, on various programmes including Late Light Extra on the BBC Light Programme, BBC World Service and BBC Radio London. Bray is now an aviation and aviation security expert, and broadcasts from his home studio in Peterborough. Noreen Bray – main presenter on Wales Today during the 1980s. She also occasionally presented Songs of Praise. Fern Britton – originally worked for Westward Television, before joining the BBC in the early 1980s as a newsreader on News After Noon and Breakfast Time. She later went on to host Ready Steady Cook, This Morning and That's What I Call Television Michael Buerk – originally a reporter, most notably on the Ethiopian famine in 1984, and later a newsreader; presenter of the Ten O'Clock bulletin from 2000 to 2003. Roland Buerk – former BBC Tokyo correspondent, and son of Michael Buerk. Paul Burden – business reporter on Look North Manchester, which later became Look North West and then North West Tonight, during the 1970s. He became a BBC national newsreader and financial journalist in 1983, including presenting Business Breakfast, remaining in these roles until 1999. He also presented the Today programme and PM on BBC Radio 4. Sir Alastair Burnet – presenter and reporter on Panorama and general election coverage during the early 1970s: he also presented coverage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips' wedding in 1973. He rejoined ITN in 1976 as a main anchor on News at Ten, remaining there until his retirement in 1991. He died in 2012. Gordon Burns – main anchor on North West Tonight from 1997 until his retirement in 2011. He had previously worked for Ulster Television in his native Belfast and he also worked on Granada Reports and World in Action. During his career, he interviewed eight British prime ministers. He is also well-known as the long-serving original host of the ITV quiz The Krypton Factor from 1977 to 1995. Other quizzes he has hosted include Password, A Word in Your Ear and Relatively Speaking.

C Sue Cameron – presenter of Newsnight during the 1990s. She has also presented Channel 4 News. Sue Carpenter – relief co–presenter on News After Noon and on Breakfast Time during the 1980s and was also a main presenter on Points West. She later joined ITN.