Donald MacCormick was a Scottish broadcast journalist.
11 Facts About Donald MacCormick
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Donald MacCormick studied English at the University of Glasgow, where he was chairman of the Labour Club with Donald Dewar and John Smith.
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Donald MacCormick began his media career in Scotland in 1967, working at Grampian Television as a news reporter and then later, on political programmes both for ITV and BBC.
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Donald MacCormick presented the ground-breaking political programme Public Account for BBC Scotland with James Cox and Andrew Neil.
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Donald MacCormick chaired BBC1's Question Time, presented the Money Programme and for several years was a commentator on the BBC's live coverage of the party political conferences.
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Donald MacCormick later returned to Scotland to present three seasons of political programmes for Scottish Television in Glasgow.
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Donald MacCormick had moved into the corporate sector, interviewing executives for company videos, chairing conferences and working in media training.
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On 28 March 2009 Donald MacCormick returned to the BBC to present an evening on BBC Parliament.
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Donald MacCormick was divorced from Lis MacKinlay, by whom he had three children.
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Donald MacCormick was married to Liz Elton from 1978 until his death; they had two children.
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Donald MacCormick was always thoroughly prepared and his kind of journalism characterised all that is best in the BBC.