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Chris is the news presenter on Nick Ferrari's breakfast show, for LBC 97.3fm
General Correspondent and News Casting - Show reel
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Chris Rogers is a familiar face presenting and reporting for television news. He has also earned the reputation of an award winning investigative journalist making a number of major undercover investigations and exclusive reports over the last six years for ITN’s ITV News, CNN, NBC and ITV's flagship current affairs series Tonight. In a recent career move he is now conducting major investigations for BBC television and radio.
Chris is also an accomplished writer with much of his work featured in the national press and now exclusively for the Mail on Sunday. Many of his investigations have been printed in the paper's award winning Live Magazine.
His first book, entitled Undercover was released in March 2010.
Chris made his name presenting children's television news programme Newsround circa 1994,the programmes youngest presenter at 19. In 1997 he was nominated by the Royal Television Society for Young Journalist of the Year for his reports in India on Child Brides and was noted for his reports on the Sudan famine and investigations revealing the plight of child workers in Nepal, all of which were also broadcast on the BBC Six and Nine O'clock News.
In 1999 Chris joined the Sky News reporting team and by 2001 was one of the channels main presenters covering major breaking news stories including the 9/11 terror attacks, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
He stayed loyal with Sky News, where his popularity with Sky viewers ensured him a place also reading the news for Channel 4's RI:SE, a Sky production. He left Sky in late 2003 to join ITN's ITV News.
His career there began as a newscaster for the ITV News channel, Chris then became one of the main reporters and newscasters on ITV London News. He also regularly presented London's LBC Nightly News programme its Iraq war coverage and then BBC Radio Five Live presenting many of the stations prime time programmes. In 2006 Chris joined the national ITV News team of correspondents and periodically presented London Tonight and ITV News.
His first major investigation for ITV: Kids Behind Bars 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 shown world wide. An 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 its 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 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. More recently Chris 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.
Closer to home Chris made a special and moving thirty minute film on the Gun and Knife culture among teenagers and Chris also made a special undercover investigation on Eastern European sex traffickers for the return of ITV's 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. 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 Tonight programme, exposed India's black market trade in British medical records.
Our World "Brazil's Child Prostitutes"
BBC TWO, BBC World and BBC News Channel
TX 24 & 25th July 2010.
The beaches of Brazil and its relaxed attitude to sex and prostitution have long attracted millions of tourists, particularly men. But the world's oldest industry is now recruiting the world's youngest workers. The children's charity Unicef estimates there are 250,000 children forced in to prostitution across Brazil. Supply is meeting demand, increasing numbers of European men are turning away from Asia and heading to Brazil where crack downs on child sex are practically none existent.
In this shocking episode of Our World, Chris Rogers goes undercover, posing as one of the millions of so called sex tourists who are visiting the South American country in growing numbers, most come in search for cheap sex, often with children as young as seven years old. With a growing economy, an increasing presence on the international stage and the host of the next World Cup -can Brazil afford to ignore its child prostitutes?
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