He largely covered sport for the Salford-based David Burke Press Agency, supplying material to the Manchester Evening News, Sunday Express and Piccadilly Radio, among others.
[clarify] He worked trackside at the London 2012 Olympics, interviewing such athletes as Usain Bolt, Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford.
After taking a break from TV work late in 2017, Jones returned to the BBC's coverage of athletics with 'legends' features on Linford Christie, Sally Gunnell and Jonathan Edwards during the Doha World Championships output in 2019.
Jones presented for almost eight years from September 1994 for CNN International, hosting its flagship World Sport show almost two-thousand times and co-hosting CNN's coverage of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics, the FIFA World Cup in France in 1998 and both Euro 96 and Euro 2000 football tournaments.
He also presented CNN's weekly golf show for two years, reported from the Masters Tournament and co-hosted the US PGA Championship for network channel CNNSi in 2001.