Glenn Campbell (born 1976) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster for BBC Scotland news and current affairs, currently political editor for

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. He grew up on

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and studied at the

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Biography

His career began in commercial radio. A former head of news and sport at Scot FM, he also presented the station's news magazine 'Lunchtime Live' which won a silver

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in 1999. Campbell joined BBC Scotland in 2001, originally working for their radio station,

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. Currently, he works for their television arm, and has regularly reported and presented on programmes such as ''

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'' and '' Scotland 2016''. He also presented the network's coverage of the 2007 Scottish election and contributes regularly on '' Good Morning Scotland''. He has been a stand-in presenter on Radio 4's '' PM'' programme. Campbell hosted BBC Scotland's coverage of the 2015 general election and anchored coverage of the 2016 Scottish Parliament election. On 25 August 2014, Campbell moderated the second

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debate between

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and

Alex Salmond Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond ( ; 31 December 1954 – 12 October 2024) was a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. A prominent figure in the Scottish nationalist movement, he was Leader of the Sc ...

in Glasgow. He then hosted the referendum result programme on BBC One Scotland on 18 September 2014. On 15 December 2020, Campbell was announced as BBC Scotland's political editor, beginning in January 2021. In August 2023, Campbell announced that he had been diagnosed with

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and was receiving treatment. This was a rare form of brain cancer called a

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which is incurable, however it is "better" than other types according to Campbell. In the wake of this, Campbell also began fundraising for a charity called 'Brain Tumour Research' to establish the 5th brain tumour research centre in the UK, and to scale up research into brain tumours.

References

External links

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