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Bio - Rory

Partial CV - Rory

Starting his BBC career as a researcher on the Leeds edition of Look North, he then worked in the London TV newsroom for three years before getting his first on-screen role at BBC Wales. He later transferred to London and became the business and economics correspondent. After the dot com crash of 2000, he wrote the book Dot.bomb. He has covered issues such as Black Wednesday, the BCCI scandal and Marks and Spencer's competition troubles. He has also evaluated the growth of online websites and companies including the rise of Google and Wikipedia and online retailing. In 2004 he made an appearance on The Money Programme. Since January 2007, he has been the BBC's Technology Correspondent with the job of expanding the BBC's coverage of new media and telecoms, and the cultural impact of the Internet.

In April 2007 he launched Stop the NUJ boycott, "a campaign for a ballot of NUJ members about the union's policy on a boycott of Israeli goods".

Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology Correspondent, BBC

Rory has been a reporter for the BBC for more than two decades, covering business and technology stories for much of that time. In 2007 he was appointed Technology Correspondent with a brief to expand the BBC's coverage of the impact of the internet on business and society. He now covers technology for television, radio and the BBC website and also blogs regularly on ‘dot rory’, recently named as one of the Sunday Times Top 100 blogs. Rory's on-screen career began as reporter for Wales Today in Cardiff, from where he moved to London as a reporter on Breakfast Time. He quickly transferred to business coverage, working across the BBC's output from the Money Programme to Newsnight, from the Today programme to the Ten O Clock News. The stories he has covered range from Black Wednesday and the Maxwell trial to the dot com bubble and the rise of Google. The author of ‘Dot Bomb’, a critically acclaimed account of Britain's dot com bubble.

Career

BBC TV: researcher Look North BBC Leeds 1981-83, sub ed TV News London, asst prodr Newsnight, prodr TV News Special Projects 1983-85, reporter BBC Wales Cardiff 1986-88, reporter Breakfast Time 1988, business reporter TV News and Money Programme 1989-, internet corr BBC TV News 1999- (business corr 1994-)