Rory Cellan-Jones

Rory Cellan-Jones was born in London in 1958. His father James Cellan Jones was a BBC TV director and film director;[3] and his mother was Sylvia Rich, a BBC secretary.[4] His half-brother Simon Cellan Jones is a film director, although Rory was born out of wedlock and was unacquainted with them until adulthood.[5]

Cellan-Jones was educated at Dulwich College, an independent school for boys in Dulwich in south London, from 1967–76.[6] He attended Jesus College, Cambridge University, obtaining a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1981, and automatic MA three years later.[7][8]

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, appearing on The Money Programme between 1990 and 1992.[9]

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.[10]

He has evaluated the growth of websites and internet companies including the rise of Google and Wikipedia and online retailing. 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.[10]

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".[11]

• with Mike Hally, Patently Absurd (Audio, 2013)
• The Secret History of Social Networking (BBC, 2012)
• Dot.Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot.com Britain, London: Autumn Press, 2001.

Cellan-Jones is married to economist and author Diane Coyle.[12] The couple have two sons and live in West Ealing, London.[13][14]

On 30 May 2019, following his presentation of the first BBC broadcast over a 5G network, Cellan-Jones announced via Twitter that he had been diagnosed with early Parkinson's disease, but that he intended to carry on as normal.[15][16]

• Rory Cellan-Jones at IMDb
• Rory Cellan Jones (BBC) on Twitter
• Rory Cellan Jones (personal) on Twitter