The BBC has appointed former BBC East Midlands news and sports presenter Kate Squire as managing editor at BBC Radio Leicester.
Currently editor of the BBC’s Open Centres – community-based premises set up by the corporation alongside its studios to provide access to BBC learning facilities – she begins her new role on 13 April.
One of her immediate tasks will be to oversee BBC Radio Leicester’s move to digital-based premises in the city centre, as she swaps jobs with current editor Liam McCarthy.
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Prior to becoming Open Centres’ editor in 2002, Squire was managing editor at BBC Radio Nottingham.
She joined the BBC in 1985 as a graduate trainee studio manager in radio production, moving on to BBC Radio 4’s Today and BBC World Service, before becoming a breakfast show presenter and sports producer for BBC Radio Leicester.
Squire become a television sports reporter on the East Midlands Today regional news programme in 1991. By 1996 she was a regular news presenter and in 1998 became editor of BBC Radio Nottingham.
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