Sheena Elizabeth McDonald (born 25 July 1954, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.

[1] She was a pupil at George Watson's Ladies College,[2] and then read English at the University of Edinburgh from where she graduated in 1976 before gaining a postgraduate certificate in radio, film and television studies from the University of Bristol.

Whilst at university in Edinburgh, she had a relationship with then-Rector and fellow student Gordon Brown.

In 1978 she began her professional broadcasting career as a producer and presenter at BBC Radio Scotland.

She switched to television in 1981 as a presenter, continuity announcer and newsreader at STV, then went freelance in 1986, moving on to anchor such national radio and television news programmes as The World at One, Channel 4 News, 'The World This Week', After Dark and International Question Time and, in 1995, she received the first-ever 'Woman in Film and Television' Award.