About Rory
Rory Cellan-Jones has been a reporter for the BBC for more than two decades, covering business and technology stories for much of that time. At the beginning of 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. Before that in 2000, he was briefly the BBC's Internet Correspondent before returning to his post as Business and Industry Correspondent after the dot com bubble burst. He also blogs regularly on "dot rory", the BBC's popular technology blog, named as one of the Sunday Times Top 100 blogs, and is a prolific Twitterer. In 2011, he was selected for the Wired UK 100, a list of the UK's most prominent technology figures. Read more... PublicationsDot Bomb - 2003
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Rory Cellan-Jones has been a reporter for the BBC for more than two decades, covering business and technology stories for much of that time.
At the beginning of 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. Before that in 2000, he was briefly the BBC's Internet Correspondent before returning to his post as Business and Industry Correspondent after the dot com bubble burst.
He also blogs regularly on "dot rory", the BBC's popular technology blog, named as one of the Sunday Times Top 100 blogs, and is a prolific Twitterer. In 2011, he was selected for the Wired UK 100, a list of the UK's most prominent technology figures.
He is the author of "Dot Bomb", a critically acclaimed account of Britain's dot com bubble.
His 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.
Rory studied Modern and Medieval Languages at Jesus College, Cambridge, and worked in Paris and Berlin before entering journalism. He is married with two sons, and lives in Ealing in West London.
