12 Facts About Bernard Ponsonby

Bernard Ponsonby is a Scottish broadcast journalist for regional news and current affairs programming for STV.

Bernard Ponsonby joined the station in 1990 and was appointed political editor in 2000, following the retirement of longstanding political editor Fiona Ross.

Since 2019, Ponsonby has been Special Correspondent for STV News.

Bernard Ponsonby was educated at Trinity High School, Rutherglen, and Strathclyde University.

Bernard Ponsonby has been a supporter of Celtic FC since boyhood.

Bernard Ponsonby joined the Social Democratic Party as a young man, and upon leaving university was briefly employed as a researcher for the former MP Dr Dickson Mabon.

Bernard Ponsonby has contributed to the weekly political programme Politics Now, for which he became presenter in January 2009, until the programme's end in 2011.

Bernard Ponsonby co-presented the political programme Scottish Questions, was the lead presenter on Scottish Voices, co-presented Trial By Night and more recently, Seven Days.

Bernard Ponsonby has produced several documentary programmes in the Scottish Reporters series and produced two political documentaries on two of Scotland's most influential politicians of the postwar period.

In 2002, Bernard Ponsonby was arrested for drunk driving and convicted of being over three times the legal drink limit.

Bernard Ponsonby stood down as Political Editor of STV News in 2019, after 19 years in the job.

Bernard Ponsonby took up the newly created role of Special Correspondent, whilst continuing to lead STV's election results coverage.