Kirstin Gove

Who is Kirstin Gove?

Kirstin Gove is a Scottish PR & media consultant, who previously worked as a broadcast journalist and presenter for STV North.

Gove was born in Glasgow but moved to Aberdeen at the age of three. Both of her parents are former full-time teachers in Aberdeen. Gove attended Ashley Road Primary School and Aberdeen Grammar School, and graduated in 1995 with a MA Honours degree in German and International Relations.

Gove joined Grampian Television in 1995 from a work placement scheme on a local newspaper. Within a year, Gove became a sports presenter and occasional anchor for the nightly news programme North Tonight. Between 1998 and 2006, she was a regular main anchor for North Tonight. She later became a part-time bulletin presenter and newsgathering editor for STV News at Six.

Gove also presented a number of other regional programmes for Grampian TV including Testimony, Off The Wall, Inquisition, The Buck Stops Here, Grampian Weekend and Grampian Midweek. She has also worked at Westminster as a production journalist for the monthly Scottish Questions programme and a reporter for the flagship political programme Crossfire. Most recently, she also presented and produced Ask Kirstin, a feedback series for STV North's video blog Northern Exposure.