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British journalist

Nicholas Rory Cellan Jones (born 17 January 1958; "Cellan" pronounced ) is a British journalist and a former BBC News technology correspondent. After working for the BBC for 40 years, he announced in August 2021 he would leave the corporation in late October. and his mother was Sylvia Rich, a BBC secretary. His half brother Simon Cellan Jones is a film director. Rory uses a hyphen in his surname as his paternal grandparents did; his father had dropped the hyphen. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge, obtaining a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1981, and automatic MA three years later.

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. He has evaluated the growth of websites and internet companies including the rise of Google and Wikipedia and online retailing. From January 2007 until leaving the BBC in 2021, he was 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. He announced on Twitter in August 2021 his intention to leave the BBC in October after 40 years.

Since March 2023 Cellan Jones has contributed to a podcast Movers and Shakers which is "about life with Parkinson's". Recordings are made in a Notting Hill pub and presenters (Gillian Lacey Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman) discuss "the highs and lows, trials and tribulations, of living with the condition". In March 2024 The UK Broadcasting Press Guild made 'Movers and Shakers' its 'UK Podcast of the Year'.

Cellan Jones is married to economist and author Diane Coyle. The couple have two sons and live in West Ealing, London. He and Coyle adopted Sophie, a nervous rescue dog from Romania, in December 2022. They have reported on social media about Sophie's slow progress in settling in via the hashtag #sophiefromromania. A book Sophie From Romania, by Cellan Jones, is due to be published in October 2024.