Roger Johnson (TV presenter)

Roger Johnson is an English television journalist and presenter, currently working as the main presenter for the regional news programme BBC North West Tonight, as well as a regular weekend presenter of BBC Breakfast.

Johnson was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1969, and is the son of BBC Radio Stoke commentator Nigel Johnson.

Johnson was educated at Newcastle-under-Lyme School, an independent school in the market town of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. He attended the University of Birmingham and the University of California, Berkeley.

Johnson joined the BBC after university - working as a reporter at BBC Radio Solent and BBC Radio Manchester. His first television role was as a sports journalist on BBC South's news programme South Today. During this time he was also the relief presenter for Sally Taylor and worked for several other BBC Television outlets. He was named Royal Television Society Regional Sports Presenter of the Year in 2002 and was nominated on three other occasions.

He left BBC South in September 2011 after 14 years to replace Gordon Burns as the main anchor on North West Tonight, originally alongside Ranvir Singh and then Annabel Tiffin. In April 2014, Johnson anchored coverage of the 25th Anniversary Service for the Hillsborough Disaster. The programme was named Best Regional News Programme at the Royal Television Society North West Awards. Johnson and the BBC team won the award again in 2015 for a compilation entry.BBC North West Tonight, presented by Johnson, was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for News Coverage in 2014 and again in 2017.

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