Roger Mosey

Roger Mosey (born 4 January 1958) is a British author, broadcaster, and former Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge. He was previously the Head of BBC Television News and Director of the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games coverage. His other positions have included that of Producer to the BBC's New York bureau, Editor of Today on BBC Radio 4, and BBC editorial director. He is a trustee of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He often contributes articles and columns to international newspapers including The Guardian, The Times, The Spectator, the New Statesman, and the Daily Telegraph.

Education Mosey grew up in Bradford and was educated at Bradford Grammar School. He then studied at Wadham College, Oxford, where he received a degree in history and modern languages. He appeared on University Challenge in 1978, as a member of the team representing his college.

Career After university he joined Pennine Radio, Bradford, as a Community Affairs Producer; his BBC career began in 1980 when he joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire as a reporter. His first job in network radio was on The Week in Westminster, and he then moved to Today Programme as a producer and to the BBC's New York bureau

He was editor of Radio 4's Today from March 1993 until appointment as Controller of BBC Radio 5 Live at the beginning of 1997. Under his editorship, Today won Sony Gold Awards in 1994 and 1995 and was named "Radio Programme of the Year" by the Broadcasting Press Guild in 1995.BBC Radio 5 Live was named the Sony National Radio Station of the Year 1998.

In 2003, when Head of News at the BBC, Mosey was asked to head a landmark workstream looking at the BBC's values. As Head of Sport he cancelled Grandstand after a 48-year run and oversaw the move to Salford Quays in 2010. He was replaced as Head of Sport by Barbara Slater. He was in charge of the BBC's coverage of the 2012 Olympics, which won several awards, including from the Royal Television Society. but the appointment was short-lived; he retired from the BBC in August that year. Upon leaving the BBC, Mosey wrote in The Times that the BBC was insufficiently open to divergent viewpoints and had failed to "give enough space to anti-immigration views or to EU-withdrawalists". He proposed that the organisation should share the licence fee with others. His years at the BBC are the subject of his memoir published in 2015, Getting Out Alive, and in 2022 he published 20 Things that would make the News better.

In 2013, Mosey was elected to succeed Richard Bowring as Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge. His election was announced on 2 July and he took up the role in October 2013 and served as Master for 12 years until September 2025, when he was succeeded by Suzanne Raine.

Also in 2013 it was announced that he would be Chair of Bishop Grosseteste University's university council. and the University of Bradford (Doctor, 2013). films, and reading thrillers and political biographies.

Publications Getting Out Alive – News, Sport & Politics at the BBC, Biteback (2015); 20 Things that would make the News better, Biteback (2022);