Paul Barnes

Paul Barnes is a Scottish broadcast journalist, television presenter and producer. He is currently the Sports Editor & presenter for the East Central Scotland edition of STV News at Six. Barnes' work entails presenting the sports section of the programme - both in studio and on location. He reports regularly on a number of different sports including football, rugby, golf, tennis and cricket. Barnes graduated from the University of Strathclyde with an Honours Degree in Marketing in 2006. Then in 2011, he graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University with a master's degree in Multimedia Journalist. Barnes started his media career at BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in January 2012, where he worked on the football highlights show Late Kick Off - writing, presenting, producing and editing feature packages for the programme. After five months at the BBC in Leeds, he moved to Sky Sports News Radio as a reporter and producer. In October 2012, he returned to Scotland to work on programmes made by BBC Sport Scotland, including Sportscene. From February until May 2013, he split his time between Glasgow and Leeds, making a brief return to BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire's Late Kick Off. He left BBC Scotland in September 2013, to take up the role of Sports Editor & presenter for STV News in the STV East region.