Gordon Chree
{{Short description|Scottish reporter}}
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| birth_date = 10 December 1978
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| show = STV News (East/West)
| station = STV
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| style = Reporter
| country = Scotland
| prevshow = Scotland Today (2007-2009);
Talk 107 (2006-2007)
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Gordon Chree (born 1978) is a Scottish reporter for STV News and occasional presenter on the East edition of STV News at Six, and the online video blog Not The Real MacKay.[http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-the-real-mackay-090309/ 'The Real MacKay': A Gordon of All Trades] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728054147/http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-the-real-mackay-090309/ |date=2011-07-28 }}, stv.tv, 9 March 2009
Chree was one of the live reporters at the Glasgow Airport attack for STV, ITV News, and CNN. [http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-blogs-020707blog_squeeze/ 'Not the Real MacKay': Glasgow terror attacks] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010010810/http://video.stv.tv/bc/news-blogs-020707blog_squeeze/ |date=2008-10-10 }}, 2 July 2007[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/30/cnr.01.html CNN Newsroom transcript], CNN.com, 30 June 2007
Prior to STV,[http://www.allmediascotland.com/articles/1079/28032007/talk_station_losing_trio_of_presenters Talk Station Losing Trio of Presenters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081113132536/http://www.allmediascotland.com/articles/1079/28032007/talk_station_losing_trio_of_presenters |date=13 November 2008 }}, Allmediascotland, 28 March 2007 Chree worked for several commercial radio stations, including the now-defunct Edinburgh station Talk 107.[http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33210§ioncode=1 ‘Some people will never leave the BBC — we’ll have everyone else’] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616183220/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=33210§ioncode=1 |date=16 June 2011 }}, Press Gazette, 10 February 2006
Gordon is a regular at parkrun. In 2023-24 he became the first person to complete all Scottish parkruns in sequence (69 different parkruns in a row).{{cite web | url=https://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/remarkable-69-consecutive-parkruns-on-the-horizon-345242/ | title=Remarkable 69 consecutive parkruns on the horizon | date=16 March 2024 }} His sequence of consecutive different parkruns sits at 89 (as of 10 August 2024).
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Category:People educated at Grove Academy
Category:STV News newsreaders and journalists
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