Alan Saunby

Who is Alan Saunby?

Alan Saunby is a former broadcast journalist for STV Central's regional news programme, Scotland Today, specialising in business.

Saunby began his broadcasting career as News Editor for the Scottish Highlands' independent local radio station Moray Firth Radio in Inverness and was one of the team that launched the station on 23 February 1982.

Saunby worked at Scottish Television as the station's Business correspondent between 1989 and April 2006 when he took voluntary redundancy along with several other Scotland Today journalists during a round of mass redundancies in STV's news division.

During his time Alan has seen a huge amount of change. He says: "I've seen the Scottish economy transformed from a dependency on mechanical engineering and manufacturing into one driven by electronics and its related service industries.The rest - Ravenscraig, Kvaerner, Motorola, Hyundai, United Distillers, Ferranti, etc - you'll know.

"There has been a complete change in the industrial relations environment. When I began, business and industrial reporters seemed to spend most of their times covering strikes."

Alan began working as a journalist at a university radio station, and he became friendly with people who worked in the real thing. His first job, he says: "Came from being in the right place at the right time and accepting a low salary.