Ethical Man
| Justin Rowlatt | |
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| Born | 1966 London |
| Education | University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist, presenter |
| Notable credit(s) | Business Daily |
| Spouse(s) | Bee Rowlatt |
Justin Rowlatt is a British news reporter and television presenter. In February 2015 he became the BBC's South Asia Correspondent, based in Delhi.
Rowlatt was educated at Hampstead Comprehensive in Cricklewood, northwest London, and then at Mansfield College, Oxford University.
Rowlatt has been a correspondent on Newsnight, Channel 4 News and Panorama and has been nominated for Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards for his work.
One of Rowlatt's first jobs in television was as an assistant producer on current affairs documentary Panorama, where, among many other stories, he worked on a programme which showed how Mercedes, Volkswagen and Volvo car dealers were fixing prices in Britain.
During his time on Channel 4 News, he was a passenger on the train involved in the Hatfield rail crash in 2000, reporting that he "watched the carriages skid and whip around on the gravel besides the track".
Justin Rowlatt became widely known in Britain when in 2006 he became Newsnight's "Ethical Man". On Rowlatt's first day at the programme, Peter Barron, the editor, challenged him and his family to spend a year trying to reduce their impact on the environment. It made him an "accidental green hero", according to The Guardian. In 2003, that paper had commissioned Leo Hickman to spend a year with his young family on a similar project, which resulted in a book entitled Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying To Live Ethically. Hickman defined "ethical living" as "shorthand for seeing whether you can make changes to your lifestyle that lead to a more positive impact on the people and environment around you" and Rowlatt, who acknowledges his debt to Hickman (and to Lucy Siegle, author of Green Living in the Urban Jungle), continued in this vein, focusing on environmental impact, especially his carbon footprint (rather than, say, labour rights). One of the "Ethical Man" advisors was Tim Jackson, the environmental economist, described as a "carbon guru"
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