Roger Boyes
British journalist
Intro | British journalist | |
Places | United Kingdom Great Britain Germany | |
is | Journalist Writer Author | |
Work field | Journalism Literature | |
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Birth | 7 August 1952, Hereford, Herefordshire, West Midlands, United Kingdom | |
Age | 72 years | |
Star sign | Leo |
Roger Boyes (born 7 August 1952 in Hereford, England) is a British journalist and author. He is the diplomatic editor for the London Times newspaper. He also has a column in the German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel entitled 'My Berlin'.
Boyes entered journalism as a Reuters correspondent in Moscow (1976–1977), joining the Financial Times as an Eastern Europe specialist in 1978 and was the Bonn correspondent of the FT from 1979 to 1981. He then switched to The Times and became the newspaper's Eastern Europe correspondent based in Warsaw where he covered the Solidarity revolution and the imposition of martial law. Since then, he has been posted to Rome as a Southern Europe correspondent (1987–89), Bonn and Berlin correspondent 1993- 2010.