His work with the Guardian's The Datastore and the Datablog was honoured at the Knight Batten awards for innovation in journalism, 2011.
[9] In 2017, Rogers spoke at the 12th Congress of Investigative Journalism about the importance of journalists learning to code.
[10] In 2019, Rogers predicted that data journalism was becoming a global field; he was one of a selected group of journalists asked by the Nieman Lab out of Harvard University to make predictions for journalism for 2019.
In 2020, Rogers helped launch the Sigma Awards,[13] a new data journalism competition.
In 2021, Rogers set up a 'Data Journalism Podcast', with co-host Alberto Cairo.