Chris Rogers (journalist)

Chris Rogers is a British television journalist. He is currently working freelance with media organisations based in London.

Rogers debuted on BBC Radio 5's youth programme, Vibe. Presenting Buzz FM in Birmingham in 1990, then in 1992 he presented on Hallam FM where he anchored the evening show 'No Limits' as well as a Sunday afternoon love songs programme. He then moved to the BBC, presenting PX, and writing and presenting the six part series A Life of Knowledge.^[1]

In 1994, aged 19, Rogers started presenting BBC's children's television news programme Newsround. In 1997 he was nominated by the Royal Television Society for Young Journalist of the Year for his reports in India on Child Brides, noted for his reports on the Sudan famine and investigations revealing the plight of child workers in Nepal. Each of these reports were also broadcast on the BBC Six O'Clock and BBC Nine O'Clock News.

In 1999 Rogers joined the Sky News reporting team and by 2001. He was one of the channel's main presenters covering major breaking news stories including the 9/11 terror attacks; and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He remained with Sky News, reading the news for Channel 4's RI:SE, a Sky News production.

In late 2003, he joined ITV News.^[1] Starting on the ITV News channel, Rogers became one of the main reporters and newscasters on ITV London News. He also regularly presented London's LBC Nightly News programme; including its Iraq war coverage; and then BBC Radio Five Live presenting many of the station's prime time programmes. In 2006 Chris joined the national ITV News team of correspondents and periodically presented London Tonight and ITV News.

Closer to home Chris made a thirty minute film on the Gun and Knife culture among teenagers - as well as a special undercover investigation on Eastern European sex traffickers for the return of the ITV News At Ten.

In 2008 he returned to Romania’s abandoned children, but this time with Sarah, the Duchess of York and her Princess daughters who reacted to Chris's original investigations by asking to see the situation for themselves in the hope of highlighting the issue even more.^[2] In two special programmes broadcast on the 6 and 7 November 2008 for Tonight on ITV Chris also took the Duchess undercover in institutions for disabled children in Turkey, again revealing shocking treatment. The films have created a huge scandal in Turkey. His most recent investigation for the ITV current affairs strand Tonight, exposed India's black market trade in British medical records.

^[3][4] His first book, entitled "Undercover" was released in February 2010. He can also be heard on London's LBC 97.3, where he reads the breakfast bulletins on the award-winning Nick Ferrari breakfast show; and regularly presents on the BBC news channel.^[5] Rogers has also conducted a number of recent investigations for the BBC - most recently an investigation into Brazil's child prostitution problem. Rogers presented the BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten on 5 and 6 November 2010 and again on 1 August 2011 while regular presenters took part in strike action organised by the National Union of Journalists.

Awards

In June 2007, Rogers was presented with a One World Media Award, for his 'Romania's Unwanted Children' investigation. He was also nominated for Television Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards and a Broadcast Award For Romania's Unwanted Children. Chris's series marking the anniversary of the London Bombings led to another Royal Television Society Award nomination for London Journalist of the Year and the special Edition of London Tonight also won RTS Programme of the Year. Rogers was awarded an Amnesty International Media Award for his series of provocative films on the treatment of Palestinian children by both the Israelis and Palestinians which uncovered how children are being recruited as suicide bombers and how Israel is breaking international law by imprisoning young Palestinian children following military trial.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Chris Rogers". NewsChannel.org.uk. http://newschannel.org.uk/newscasters/rogers.php. Retrieved 2010-11-05. 
2. ^ "From favelas to orphanages: inside the stories of injustice". The Independent (London). 21 March 2010. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/from-favelas-to-orphanages-inside-the-stories-of-injustice-1924621.html. 
3. ^ Robinson, James (2009-10-18). "ITN avoids compulsory redundancies at Channel 4 News". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/21/channel4-news-itn-redundancies. Retrieved 2009-10-21. 
4. ^ Rogers, Chris (14 March 2010). "How I nearly got Sarah Ferguson locked up in a Turkish jail as we exposed barbaric orphanages". Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257704/How-I-nearly-got-Sarah-Ferguson-locked-Turkish-jail-exposed-barbaric-orphanages.html. 
5. ^ "Brazil's sex tourism boom". BBC News. 30 July 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-10764371. 

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