Last updated March 2006
Category: Scotland
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Frontline Scotland reporter Ross McWilliam was born in Dundee and educated at Morgan Academy in the city.
After leaving school he joined DC Thomson, working
as a reporter on the Dundee Courier and Evening Telegraph, including
a spell as their district reporter in Forfar.
After four years, Ross joined Radio Tay in Dundee as a reporter/newsreader. He
moved briefly to Northsound Radio Aberdeen as a news producer, before returning
to Radio Tay as deputy news editor and sports editor.
He first joined the
BBC in 1984 as a news producer for Radio York and shortly after he moved
back to Scotland to work on Reporting Scotland in Glasgow as production
journalist.
Ross joined BBC East in Cambridge in 1990 and for ten years he was a senior reporter, also presenting the regional news programme for the Eastern Counties Look East.
In addition, Ross was a presenter of the regional
leisure programme Out and About for three years and a reporter/
producer on the regional current affairs series Matter of Fact.
Ross moved back to Scotland in September 2000 with his wife Kate and their two daughters. After the flat Fens of East Anglia, Ross makes the most of the hills and mountains of Scotland and hopes one day he will see his beloved Dundee United climb up the Scottish Premier League!
Professionally he has scaled new heights since moving
back to Scotland, presenting a Panaroma for BBC network television
and winning several domestic and international broadcast awards,
including a Bafta Scotland and UK Medical Journalism award in 2005.
