Chris Rogers (journalist)

Chris Rogers
Born (1975-11-13) 13 November 1975 (age 48)
Occupation(s)Broadcast journalist, news presenter, producer
EmployerBBC
Notable credit(s)BBC News Channel
BBC London News
BBC World News
BBC Weekend News
Panorama
Newsday
World News Today
GMT
Global

Chris Rogers (born 13 November 1975) is a British broadcast journalist specialising in investigative journalism, and news presenter. He is among the long line up of presenters that began their career presenting BBC Newsround moving on to present and report for Sky News including its BAFTA Award-winning coverage of the 9/11 attacks. He then joined the Channel 4 RI:SE presenting team before heading to ITN's[1] ITV News,[2] and ITV's Tonight documentary series, where he presented and reported for London Today, London Tonight, ITV Evening News and produced and fronted numerous investigations for the News at Ten and the Tonight programme as ITV's Investigative Correspondent. He left ITN in 2009 to present BBC News.

He has also made many investigations as a producer and reporter for the BBC's Panorama and the BBC's Our World documentary series.[3][4][5][6] Since 2017, Rogers has been Creative Director and Executive Producer of the television and online content production company Fresh Start Media, which he co-founded. The company is behind shows like Sky's FYI - a BAFTA Award-winning weekly news show for children.[7] Chris Rogers is the Executive Producer and Programme Editor of FYI and its spin off documentaries FYI Investigates which have won many awards since the programmes launch on Sky News and Sky Kids in 2018. The company also produced Hope Works for Disney and Sky, many documentaries and episodes of CBBC's My Life.[8]

  1. ^ Deans, Jason (13 February 2002). "Rogers ready for breakfast". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Jubilee Campaign". Jubilee Campaign. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  3. ^ Chris Rogers (18 July 2012). "BBC – Blogs – College of Journalism – Author – Chris Rogers". Bbcjournalism.oup.com. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  4. ^ "At this North Korean university, the West may be distrusted — but it's also studied". Public Radio International.
  5. ^ "BBC News Channel — Our World, Coffee's Cruel Secret". BBC. 15 September 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  6. ^ "Where child sacrifice is a business - Chris Rogers - BBC News - RichardDawkins.net". Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  7. ^ "Winners announced: 2022 BAFTA Children & Young People Awards". 27 November 2022.
  8. ^ "Home". fresh media.