Rory Cellan-Jones is a British journalist and former BBC News technology correspondent. After beginning his BBC career as a researcher on the Leeds edition of Look North, he worked in the corporation's London television newsroom for three years before gaining his first on-screen role at BBC Wales. He later returned to London and became the business and economics correspondent, appearing on The Money Programme between 1990 and 1992. 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. On 30 May 2019, Rory announced via Twitter that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Read Rory's personal blog here.