Nic Robertson

Nic Robertson is a Senior International Correspondent at CNN. Robertson started his career in broadcasting in 1984 within the engineering arm of the UK's Independent Broadcasting Authority. He then worked as an engineer with TV-AM until 1989.

Nic Robertson, is an award-winning CNN Senior International Correspondent, whose experience, knowledge and expertise have established his reputation as one of the finest international correspondents in the industry. Based in the London bureau, he travels extensively, covering global terrorism, wars, armed conflicts and a range of other major news events. Since joining CNN he has been on some of the biggest news stories around the world.

Robertson began his career at CNN in 1989, starting as a satellite engineer. He first came to public attention when he stayed in Baghdad with Peter Arnett at the start of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Later that year, he was moved to Chicago, where he became a producer in CNN's Chicago Bureau. He then became the producer for Christiane Amanpour and was moved to CNN's London bureau, where he later made the jump to newsgathering.

Robertson has worked in war zones around the world, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, the former Yugoslavia and across the Middle East. He was one of very few western journalists in Taliban-held Afghanistan when the terror attacks unfolded in the United States on 11 September 2001, and was able to report on the Taliban response and the attacks by the Northern Alliance on Kabul live via satellite videophone.

Throughout 2002 and early 2003, Robertson reported from Iraq, during a period of growing tension between Saddam Hussein’s government and the West, remaining in Baghdad during the build-up to Coalition strikes on the city in 2003.

In 2005 CNN sent Robertson to New Orleans to report on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Robertson was one of the first western journalists to reach Osama Bin Laden’s compound following his killing by US navy Seals in May 2011. In July of the same year he reported from Norway on the massacre committed by Anders Breivik.

Most recently Robertson has been covering the escalating violence in Syria, from both inside and outside the country. He is based in CNN International's bureau in London.

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