Chris Rogers is a British

United Kingdom

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 television

Television

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 journalist

Journalist

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. He is currently working freelance

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 with media organisations based in London

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Rogers debuted on BBC Radio 5

BBC Radio 5

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's youth programme, Vibe. Presenting Buzz FM in Birmingham in 1990, then in 1992 he presented on Hallam FM

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 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.

In 1994, aged 19, Rogers started presenting BBC's children's television news programme Newsround

Newsround

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. In 1997 he was nominated by the Royal Television Society

Royal Television Society

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 for Young Journalist of the Year for his reports in India

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 on Child Brides, noted for his reports on the Sudan

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 famine and investigations revealing the plight of child workers in Nepal

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