Ros Atkins Biography
Roslyn Atkins is a popular British journalist and broadcaster for the BBC, besides he presents Outside Source and as well as Ros Atkins on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. In addition, he presents on rotation The Media Show on BBC Radio 4 and News Channel.
Ros Atkins Age|Birthday
Atkins was born in Cornwall, United Kingdom. However, he has not revealed details date, month, and year of birth.
Ros Atkins Height |weight
Atkins has not disclosed details about his body measurements in the public.
Ros Atkins Nationality
He belongs to British nationality.
Ros Atkins Family | Parents | Siblings
Atkins was raised in Stithians, Cornwall but as well lived in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and Nassau, Bahamas. Besides, he lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, after finishing his studies.
Ros Atkins Wife
Atkins resides in South London together with his wife and two daughters.
Ros Atkins Career
Atkins started his career in South Africa where he researched crime prevention and also human rights for the Centre for Policy Studies. Furthermore, he wrote for the Sunday Independent in South Africa and served as a DJ in Johannesburg and at the Oppikoppi festival.
He was editor of timeout.com, and contributed to British Airways in-flight radio on returning to the UK. Moreover, he continued to DJ, setting up a night at the Brixtonian Havana Club called Sharp in Brixton, south London, and as well appearing at WOMAD and Fruitstock.
BBC Radio
He joined the BBC as a news producer on the Simon Mayo programme on BBC Radio Five Live in 2001. Furthermore, he presented on Up All Night while at Radio 5 Live. Later, he joined the BBC World Service. In addition, he presented The World Today and The Ticket prior to joining World Have Your Say in 2005.
While he was the presenter, World Have Your Say receive a Sony Gold Award for Listener Participation (2008) and a Sony Bronze Award for ‘Best Speech Programme’ (2012). Additionally, The Sony Awards have been described as the Oscars of the UK radio industry.
Likewise, he has hosted coverage of several major stories around the world for BBC News, such as both of Barack Obama’s election victories and his first inauguration, the football World Cups in Germany and South Africa, the Charles Taylor verdict, the swine flu outbreak in Mexico, the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II celebrations, and the London Olympic Games.
In addition, he was a lead presenter for the BBC World Service coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela that earned a Radio Academy Gold Award in 2014. Besides, he has hosted television broadcasts such as editions of World Have Your Say in Cairo in 2011, Boston in 2012 and Berlin in 2014.
Tourism
He has as well hosted a range of events and seminars in the travel and tourism sector such as moderating for World Travel Forum Lucerne, the World Travel and Tourism Council and also the World Travel Market. As informed above, he besides made a two-part documentary about the impact tourism has had in the three places in which he was raised.
Ros Atkins Education
Atkins went to Truro School, a co-educational independent school in Truro in Cornwall, and later read history at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Ros Atkins Net worth| Salary
Atkins has an approximated net worth of between $3 million and $5 million that he collected mostly from his Yeezy sneakers While he had exaggerated over the years. Moreover, he receives an average annual salary of £37,455 from the salary pay scale of a journalist at BBC News.
