James Reynolds (journalist)


James Edward Reynolds is a British journalist who is the Rome Correspondent for BBC News.

Early life

Reynolds was born in Kingston upon Thames, and is the son of the former BBC foreign correspondent, Paul Reynolds. He was brought up in New York City, Brussels, and Jerusalem, and educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge.

Career

In 1997, Reynolds joined the BBC as a trainee with the regional news programme East Midlands Today in Nottingham. In 1998, he was posted to Santiago, Chile to work as the BBC's South America correspondent. In 2001, he was transferred to Jerusalem to work as a BBC Middle East correspondent. From 2006 to 2009, he was the BBC's China correspondent, based in Beijing. Reynolds spent 2009/10 as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. In 2010, he returned to the BBC as the Iranian Affairs correspondent. In 2012, he was posted to Turkey as the BBC's Istanbul correspondent. In September 2014, Reynolds took up his current posting as Rome correspondent.