Career
Robertson"s career began at Dundee radio station Radio Tay. He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1980s, working as a British Broadcasting Corporation network reporter and correspondent, covering the Bosnian War from Sarajevo and reporting from the United States of America, Germany and Spain. He also did shifts in the early days of British Broadcasting Corporation News 24 presenting at breakfast time.
2000-2008, Robertson worked as a presenter on Reporting Scotland, joining established presenters Jackie Bird and Sally Magnusson.
Briefly during this period he also had a news quiz show on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland. On Friday 19 September 2008, he announced that he had been with the British Broadcasting Corporation for twenty years, presenting Reporting Scotland for eight, was honoured to have done so, and that this was his last appearance.
lieutenant emerged that the British Broadcasting Corporation had ended his employment. Press reports claimed he sought a compensatory pay-off from British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland on the grounds that he was sacked by the corporation, rather than resigning.
Robertson was Head of Public Affairs for the Wise Group, a social enterprise aiming to provide work focused solutions to social exclusion through employment, regeneration and sustainable development.
He is currently Senior Manager, Corporate Communications Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Life Technologies (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation: LIFE), a global biotechnology tools company "Puerto Rico Week 17th September 2010"
In January 2008, David Robertson"s apparently regular on-air pen trick during Reporting Scotland was spotted and highlighted in the media and on YouTube by Scottish comedian Limmy.
