Education
Shearer graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a Bachelor (Honours) degree in Journalism.
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Career
Shortly after graduation, Shearer joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live in 2003 as a journalist and producer for the station"s flagship news programmes - 5 Live Breakfast, Drive, The Midday News, and Weekend Breakfast. She later moved to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Wales as a co-presenter for the Saturday afternoon sports show Sportstime and a producer on the station"s entertainment, music and features output. Shearer later joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland as a producer for news programmes Newsdrive and Scotland Live and presented traffic updates during the flagship breakfast programme Good Morning Scotland.
She also presented a weekly online video podcast and worked on the radio quiz show Soundbites before becoming a television news presenter in 2007.
Shearer currently presents Reporting Scotland"s breakfast bulletins on weekdays and is a stand-in anchor for the main 6:30pm evening programme. Alongside Reporting Scotland, Shearer has also been involved with several British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland non-news programmes, including presenting a documentary on Pope Benedict XVI"s tour visit to Scotland and a guest appearance on the football comedy series Only An Excuse?.
As a keen music fan, she has also been a continuity presenter for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland"s overnight New Music Zone strand and has contributed to Kruger magazine and Gigwise. She is also a columnist for the Sunday edition of the Scottish Sun.
