After university, Rossi joined BBC Local radio in 1997. He worked for
BBC Radio York before joining
Tyne Tees Television as a reporter, based in
Middlesbrough. After a couple of years, he moved to
Meridian Television as a sub-editor in
Southampton and then as a reporter based in the
Thames Valley. As Sky News' Europe Correspondent, based in
Brussels, Rossi covered a broad range of stories on the European financial crisis, from political summits to economic protests. Among those he reported on were the
Amanda Knox trial in 2009 and the death of German goalkeeper,
Robert Enke. As Russia Correspondent, based in
Moscow, he reported on the
G8 Summit from
St Petersburg, the verdicts in the
Beslan trial and was in the front line during the conflict between Russia and
Georgia. He uncovered a number of exclusive stories on the poisoning murder of Russian businessman
Alexander Litvinenko in London, and was the first Western journalist to interview
Andrei Lugovoy after he was named as suspect in the murder. Rossi was one of the first correspondents to reach the
Iranian city of
Bam after it was destroyed by an earthquake in 2003. He has also reported from the
Asian tsunami, from
New Orleans in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina and has covered the conflicts in
Afghanistan and
Lebanon and the civil war and overthrow of
Muammar Gaddafi in
Libya, and on the
Arab Spring across
North Africa and the
Middle East. Rossi became Sky News' Asia Correspondent in 2011, based in
Delhi, India. He has broken a number of stories as Asia Correspondent, among them the abuse of India’s food aid programme and the effect of India’s rapid economic growth on rural life. Rossi was traveling through Brussels Airport when the
2016 Brussels bombings took place. Together with a camera person, he provided live footage of the scene within the airport from moments after the bombing. Later, since February 24th's,
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he reported news regarding the military and political situation from the frontlines and the rearguard; Bakhmut, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and others are locations he has visited in order to provide live and pre-recorded reports of the war. ==Family==