Chris Rogers (journalist)
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Chris Rogers made his name presenting children's television news programme Newsround circa 1996, and stayed there for around five years, when he joined 'adult news', with Sky News.
He stayed loyal with Sky Television, where his popularity with Sky viewers ensured him a place reading the news for the original RI:SE. Soon after RI:SE was axed, he became freelance. Often presenting the overnight news for Sky, he also read the daytime news on the ITV News Channel.
He left Sky in late 2003 to join ITN full-time, as an ITV News Channel newscaster and stayed there until the end of the channel in December 2005.
Chris then became one of the main reporters and newscasters on the ITV London News. He has since become a full time Correspondent for ITV News, can often be heard presenting on BBC Five Live and periodically presents London Tonight. He has also written many articles for the UK's major newspapers with many of his exclusive investigations printed in The Mail on Sunday Live Magazine. Since 2003 Chris has earned the reputation of an award winning investigative journalist with ITV News making a number of major undercover investigations and exclusive reports for ITN’s ITV News that have also been broadcast world wide including on CNN.
His first major investigation: "Kids Behind Bars" (tx August 05) exposed the cruelty thousands of young children experience in adult jails in the Philippines which led to a U.S Congressional hearing and a change in Philippine law which has since led to the release of thousands of children and in September 2006, Chris investigated Romania’s abandoned children, exposing shocking images of thousands of children living in appalling conditions, in the country’s institutions just months before it entered the European Union. Chris also exposed an ongoing trade in children posing as a childless couple looking for babies and toddlers to buy from their parents. The investigations were again shown world wide and were shocking as many people believed Romania's ill treatment of children was confined to the History books. A EU debate followed and an independent monitoring committee was set up to put more pressure on Romania to make better progress. Chris has since returned to Romania in on going investigations in to the countries much debated adoption ban and it's continued abandonment problem. In June 2007, Chris 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 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. More recently Chris has made a series of provocative films on the treatment of Palestinian children by both the Israelis and Palestinians and uncovered how children are being recruited as suicide bombers and how Israel is breaking international law by imprisoning young Palestinian children following military trial. Closer to home Chris made a special and moving thirty minute film on the Gun and Knife culture among teenagers and Chris has just presented a special undercover investigation on Eastern European sex traffickers for the return of ITV's 'News At Ten'.
