Over its history, the BBC has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide news reports and interviews. The following list as of August 2007 contains the names of those individuals who for whatever reason are no longer employed by the BBC in its news division BBC News.

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Stephen Cole - presenter on BBC World and of technical programme Click Online
Alistair Cooke - broadcaster, presented Letter from America until October 2004, he died later in the same month. C

Jill Dando - presenter of BBC News programmes as well as others including Holiday and Crimewatch UK until her murder in 1999.
Sir Robin Day - political broadcaster and commentator, he died in 2000.
Robert Dougall - one of the first BBC Television News newsreaders, together with Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall. He died in 1999. D

Anna Ford - presenter of the One O'Clock News from 1999 until 2006. She had also worked across other BBC News programmes, having been the first female newsreader at ITN. She left the BBC in 2006 to follow other interests.
Sir David Frost - veteran broadcaster, presented Breakfast with Frost from 1993 to 2005, when he left the corporation. F

Andrew Gilligan - journalist implicated in the Hutton Report of 2003 following his report on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme regarding the content of a British government briefing paper. Resigned following publication of the report's findings in the same year. G

Andrew Harvey - presenter of main BBC News programme as well as regional news programmes later including BBC Points West and South Today. Left the corporation to join rival ITN.
Philip Hayton - veteran broadcaster, presented the One O'Clock News as well as regional news in the North of England. Presented on BBC World and BBC News 24, resigning from the corporation in 2005 citing "incompatibility" with his new co-presenter Kate Silverton. He had been with the BBC for 37 years. H

Anna Jones - presented the morning 9-1pm shift alongside Phillip Hayton on BBC News 24 from 2003. She had been with the channel since its 1997 launch, originally as a business presenter. She left in 2005, after 12 years at the BBC, to become a presenter on Sky News.
Darren Jordon - originally sports correspondent on BBC News 24, he moved up within the department to present BBC Breakfastand was later deputy presenter of the BBC One O'Clock News and weekend bulletins. He left the corporation in October 2006 to become a main presenter on the Al Jazeera English service, based in Doha. K

Martyn Lewis - was the first presenter of the BBC One O'Clock News when it launched in 1986. He also presented the BBC Six O'Clock News and the BBC Nine O'Clock News. He left BBC News in 1999. P

Valerie Sanderson - was a presenter for BBC News 24 from its 1997 launch until 2003. She presented the 1-4pm shift alongside Bill Turnbull, and later Chris Eakin.
Moira Stuart - presented many of the BBC's main bulletins, including the Six O'Clock News and the Nine O'Clock News, during a long career with the BBC. She was dropped from her weekend slot by the BBC in 2007, leading to accusations of ageism.