Bernard Ponsonby

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Bernard Ponsonby is a Scottish broadcast journalist working on Scotland Today and North Tonight for STV. He joined the station in 1990 and was appointed political editor in 2000.

Ponsonby stood for the Liberal Democrats in the Glasgow Govan by-election 1988, losing his deposit.

For seven years, Ponsonby presented Scottish Television's political programme Platform. Currently, he reports and provides political commentary for STV's flagship news programmes Scotland Today and North Tonight. He also contributes to the weekly political programme Politics Now.

He has presented all STV's election, by-election and elections results programmes in the last ten years, and was the lead presenter in that station's coverage of the 1997 General Election, the 1997 Devolution Referendum, the Scottish Parliamentary Elections of 1999 and 2003, and the British General Election of 2001.

He co-presented the political programme Scottish Questions (1992-3), was the lead presenter on Scottish Voices (1994-95), co-presented Trial By Night (1993-96) and more recently Seven Days (2000-2001).

In terms of documentary output, he has made several programmes in the Scottish Reporters series and produced two political documentaries (The Dewar Years and The Salmond Years) on two of Scotland's most influential politicians of the postwar period.