# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-cook-2
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:49:36.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-cook-2"
name: "Roger Cook"
slug: "roger-cook-2"
description: "Roger James Cook was an Australian and British investigative journalist and television broadcaster. In 1998 he received a BAFTA special award \"for 25 years of outstanding quality investigative reporting\", for his programme The Cook Report."
tagline: "British journalist and broadcaster (1943–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roger_Cook_ITV_Central_1988_ad_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1943-04-06"
deathDate: "2026-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.47
  momentum:             35
  historical:           5.299422666666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  127
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7358011"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Cook_(journalist)"
    title: "Roger Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "روجر كوك (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Cook_(newyddiadurwr)"
    title: "Roger Cook (newyddiadurwr)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views