John Christopher Lowe (born 25 January 1949 in Ayrshire, Scotland) is a Scottish-born former news presenter who worked for BBC News for 37 years until his retirement on 4 January 2009.
He joined the BBC in 1972 on the same day as Jeremy Paxman under the graduate journalist programme.
He worked as a political correspondent at Westminster and then spent time as a journalist in Northern Ireland during the worst of what became known as The Troubles.
[2] From the mid-1990s he was a newsreader on BBC One bulletins, also becoming a frequent presenter on radio programmes such as PM.
He also chairs regular forums for The Cricket Society for whom he was appointed as a vice president in 2006, a position which he currently he shares with Charlotte Edwards, Vic Marks and Sir Tim Rice.