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J-Lab Episode 41: Breaking the RAAC in schools story with Jessica Hill
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Our guest on this episode is Jessica Hill, senior investigations and features reporter for Schools Week and FE Week. Jessica was the first journalist to reveal to the general public how reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) was ‘a ticking time bomb’ making school buildings ‘liable to collapse’. She brought the scale of the danger to an even…
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J-Lab Episode 40: Going undercover with Paul Morgan-Bentley of The Times
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Our guest on this episode is Paul Morgan-Bentley, head of investigations at The Times newspaper, who has just scooped Investigation of the Year at the Press Awards for undercover reporting that exposed the force-fitting of British Gas meters in the homes of vulnerable people.In our conversation, Paul explains how he reported this story, why he thin…
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J-Lab Episode 39: Reporting the Grenfell cladding scandal, with Martina Lees of the Sunday Times
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Our guest on the latest episode of the J-Lab podcast is Martina Lees, a senior writer for the Sunday Times. Next month sees the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower disaster, when fire destroyed a 23-storey tower block in West London, killing 72 people. Martina has spent much of the last few years seeking answers to why the disaster really happe…
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J-Lab Episode 38: Analytical journalism with BBC Newsnight's Hannah Barnes
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Our J-Lab guest this episode is Hannah Barnes, investigations producer for the BBC’s Newsnight programme.Hannah’s reports with science correspondent Deborah Cohen and her subsequent book about the rise and fall of the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) for children at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in north London are the re…
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J-Lab Episode 37: Reporting family courts with Louise Tickle
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Around 4,300 cases a week are heard in the family courts in England and Wales and the number of applications for children to be taken into council care has is around 13,000 each year. And yet remarkably little is known by most people about what goes on in family courts.In this latest episode, our guest is Louise Tickle, a multi-award winning freela…
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J-Lab Episode 36: Reporting Russia with Meduza's Ivan Kolpakov
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New laws banning independent coverage of the invasion of Ukraine have forced many news outlets to leave Russia.Meduza claims to be Russia’s biggest independent media outlet even though its editors have been based, in exile, in neighbouring Latvia for most of the last 10 years.In recent years Meduza’s reporting has ranged from exposing the presence …
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J-Lab Episode 35: Reimagining local news with Joshi Herrmann of The Mill
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Our guest this time is Joshi Herrmann, who began the pandemic intending to write a book in the Czech Republic… but instead launched a venture in Manchester that shows there might after all be a viable future for good quality, local news reporting.In just 18 months, Joshi Herrmann has signed up 16,000 free subscribers (and more than 1,000 paid) to T…
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J-Lab Episode 34: Freelancing as a foreign correspondent, with Jessie Williams
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In this episode, our guest is a journalist who has had three features shortlisted for this year’s British Journalism Awards – in one, she meets women who clear landmines in Lebanon, in another she talks to female footballers tackling France’s on-pitch hijab ban, while in the third she reports on the conditions endured by asylum seekers in the contr…
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J-Lab Episode 33: Open source investigations with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat
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Eliot Higgins is founder of online investigative collective Bellingcat which, over the last 10 years, has used open source investigation techniques to prove that Syria’s regime used chemical weapons against its citizens, find evidence of Russian involvement in the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, and unmask the “kill teams” who poisoned R…
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J-Lab Episode 32: Exposing doping in sport, with Nick Harris of the Mail on Sunday
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If you've seen Oscar-winning documentary Icarus, you’ll no doubt have been astounded by the scale of the state-sponsored doping of Russian athletes. And in this episode of J-Lab – a podcast brought to you by the Civic Journalism Lab at Newcastle University – our guest is Nick Harris, one of the two Mail on Sunday investigative journalists who expos…
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J-Lab Episode 31: Reporting county lines drugs gangs and knife crime, with Annabel Deas
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Annabel Deas, an investigative journalist who works for BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4, has just won the Orwell Prize for Hope High, a seven-part podcast documenting the year she spent with a community in Huddersfield where a number of children were being exploited by county lines drug dealers. Judges described Hope High as “British public service jo…
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J-Lab Episode 30: Holding Victoria Beckham and James Norton to account, with Katie Hind
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The appetite for showbiz and celebrity news has only increased during the last 12 months and our guest for this episode is Katie Hind, showbiz editor at the Mail on Sunday newspaper. In the last year alone, Katie has broken stories that forced Victoria Beckham to withdraw her application for government furlough money; that blew the whistle on James…
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J-Lab Episode 29: Failures of state, with George Arbuthnott of the Sunday Times Insight team
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George Arbuthnott and Jonathan Calvert of the Sunday Times Insight team have published the first major book telling the inside story of Britain's battle with coronavirus and exposing failures at the top of government which may have cost thousands of lives.In this episode, George explains the reporting behind the story and discusses the methods used…
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J-Lab Episode 28: Reporting war rape, with Christina Lamb of the Sunday Times
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Our guest for this episode of the J-Lab podcast is Christina Lamb, award-winning chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times. Christina has spent more than 30 years covering wars and conflicts around the world. She has written nine books, including one with Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban in northern Pakistan because of her campa…
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J-Lab Episode 27: Decolonising journalism with Zing Tsjeng
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Our guest for this episode is Zing Tsjeng, the executive editor of VICE UK. Most recently, Zing ruffled a few establishment feathers with her Empires of Dirt short-form video series about British colonialism. Zing is a podcaster too, host of United Zingdom on BBC Sounds. She launched the UK edition of women’s website Broadly, while her four-book se…
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J-Lab Episode 26: Reporting China's detention centres
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Reporting by journalists like the BBC's John Sudworth has revealed the scale and severity of the Chinese government's large network of detention camps, in which more than a million Uighurs and other minorities are thought to have been detained, mistreated and abused.And in the last couple of weeks, in addition to the heavy restrictions already plac…
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J-Lab Episode 25: The prince and the billionaire, with Stephanie Kirchgaessner
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner’s exclusive investigative report of January 2020 about a multi-billionaire, a royal prince, phone hacking and murder was jaw-dropping. And it won the Guardian’s investigations correspondent in Washington DC a British Journalism Award in recent months.In this latest episode of J-Lab – a podcast brought to you by the Civic Jou…
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J-Lab Episode 24: Reporting Project Big Picture, with Telegraph chief football writer Sam Wallace
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In a year that has seen very little live sport, the Telegraph’s chief football writer, Sam Wallace, unearthed a story that rocked the world of football: plans to reduce the size of the top division in England, scrap or modify some of the cup competitions and introduce B teams.In this episode, Sam gives some insight into how he got hold of these con…
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J-Lab Episode 23: Reporting domestic abuse by police officers, with Alexandra Heal of TBIJ
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Alexandra Heal is an investigative reporter whose work for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on domestic abuse by police officers won her the Private Eye Paul Foot Award 2020. Alexandra’s reporting has also led to lawyers submitting a nationwide "super-complaint" with police regulators.In this episode, Alexandra explains how her research and r…
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J-Lab Episode 22: Redeeming the vox pop, with the Guardian's John Harris
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Vox pops are much maligned, seen by some as the lowest form of journalism. Just filler at the end of a news package on TV or radio bulletins. A tick box exercise to include different voices. But over the last 10 years, the Guardian’s John Harris and John Domokos have discovered that vox pops, done thoughtfully, given time and conducted with an open…
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J-Lab Episode 21: Reporting the care homes crisis, with Nick Martin of Sky News
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Nick Martin of Sky News was one of the first journalists to report the coronavirus crisis inside care homes. His reporting was eventually praised by health secretary Matt Hancock, who promised to increase access to testing and send more PPE to care homes.In this episode of the J-Lab podcast, Nick – who began his career on the Whitley Bay Guardan, N…
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J-Lab Episode 20: Breaking the Dominic Cummings story, with the Daily Mirror's Pippa Crear
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It was one of the biggest news stories of the year: an important insight into our country’s handling of the coronavirus and a slightly bizarre tale of politics and power in a pandemic.The flouting of lockdown rules had already cost a government scientist and Scotland's chief medical officer their jobs. So when the prime minister’s controversial chi…
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In this episode, we focus on how journalists are meeting the challenges of reporting the coronavirus crisis. We talk to Nico Piro, a foreign correspondent for Italian TV station TG3, about how he is using mobile journalism skills — learned while reporting conflicts in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, the ebola epidemic of 2015 and refugee crises in Gr…
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J-Lab Episode 18: Q&A with Yvonne Ridley on Official Secrets
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Official Secrets is the name of a film released at the end of last year, which tells the true story of Katharine Gun, a GCHQ whistleblower who leaked information to the Observer newspaper about a dirty tricks campaign by US and UK intelligence agencies as they tried to justify invading Iraq. On this episode, we speak with Yvonne Ridley, the journal…
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J-Lab Episode 17: Press regulation with former IPSO chair Sir Alan Moses
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Unlike broadcasters, the UK press – in print or online – has no state regulator like Ofcom requiring it to be impartial. There are many implications to this – and the press must balance this freedom to probe, investigate and criticize with a responsibility to report accurately, ethically, fairly and sensitively.In some people's eyes, there is littl…
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J-Lab Episode 16: Q&A with crime reporter Duncan Campbell
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Duncan Campbell was the crime correspondent of the Guardian and chairman of the Crime Reporters’ Association. He has written four books on crime, including his latest, We’ll All Be Murdered in Our Beds, the Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain. Most recently, he acted as consultant on King of Thieves, the 2018 film starring Michael Caine …
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J-Lab Episode 15: HuffPost UK's Jess Brammar and Emma Youle
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HuffPost UK executive editor Jess Brammar, who’s a former deputy editor of Newsnight, gives us her thoughts on investigative reporting in a digital age. And HuffPost UK special correspondent Emma Youle — who is a previous winner of the Paul Foot award — describes how she and colleagues discovered that Kensington and Chelsea council made £129 millio…
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J-Lab Episode 14: Carrie Gracie and the fight for gender equality at the BBC
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In this episode, we hear from someone who has probably done more than anyone else in the last couple of years to highlight pay discrimination. As the BBC’s China editor, Carrie Gracie clashed with the broadcaster over gender-pay inequality and left her role after learning she was being paid much less than her male counterparts. But she continued to…
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J-Lab Episode 13: Journalist persona on social media
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In this episode on the persona of journalists on social media, we'll hear the thoughts and experiences of Ash Sarkar, senior editor at Novara Media, contributor to the Guardian and Independent and regular commentator on politics and society on BBC Question Time, Newsnight and Have I Got News For You; Susie Boniface, journalist and author who uses t…
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In this episode on the reporting of Brexit, we'll hear the thoughts and experiences of LEWIS GOODALL, political correspondent for Sky News; LISA O'CARROLL, Brexit correspondent for The Guardian; FERGUS HEWISON, political correspondent for BBC North East; and DR DARREN KELSEY, author of Media and Affective MythologiesHas the media done a better job …
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J -Lab Episode 11: Artificial intelligence meets journalism, with Pete Daykin
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The focus of this podcast episode is artificial intelligence and how it might shape the future of journalism. Taken from our Can Technology Reboot Journalism? event, we hear the thoughts and experiences of PETE DAYKIN, CEO of Wordnerds, whose career has taken him from writing for football fanzines to teaching computers to understand humans.(If you …
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J -Lab Episode 10: LinkedIn for journalists, with Katie Carroll
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Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have been a huge disrupter for news organisations – and it’s where millions of people now get their fix of daily news.In this podcast episode - taken from our Can Technology Reboot Journalism? event – we hear the thoughts and experiences of KATIE CARROLL, managing editor of the US and UK Da…
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J -Lab Episode 9: Technology-enabled reporting, with Paul Gallagher
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As part of our Can Technology Reboot Journalism? event, we hear the thoughts and experiences of Paul Gallagher, who is digital innovations editor at Reach plc, formerly Trinity Mirror, which is the UK’s largest news publisher.(If you want to watch a version of this podcast and see Paul's slides, visit https://youtu.be/3oj4hX_EoQM)For much of the la…
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J-Lab Episode 8: Media for the people and community journalism
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In this episode we hear the thoughts and experiences of ADAM CANTWELL-CORN, one of the co-founders of The Bristol Cable, on the opportunities and challenges for community-based journalism. (If you want to watch a version of this podcast and see Adam's slides, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9m41rcgaEw)The crisis in the news industry has in m…
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J-Lab Episode 7: No filter: a frank discussion about photojournalism
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Jo-Anne McArthur, award-winning Canadian photojournalist, campaigner and authorIn this podcast episode, Newcastle University's Civic Journalism Lab meets Jo-Anne McArthur, best known for her We Animals initiative, a photography project documenting human relationships with animals. Jo-Anne was herself the subject of a 2013 documentary, The Ghosts in…
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J-Lab Episode 6: Investigating the Windrush scandal, with The Guardian's Amelia Gentleman
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In this episode, Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman describes how she uncovered the so-called Windrush scandal – the wrongful detention and deportation of scores of British citizens whose families came to the UK from the Caribbean in the late 1940s and 50s to help rebuild post-war Britain.Amelia’s reporting led ultimately to the resignation of the …
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J-Lab Episode 5: Comedy + Journalism = ??
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In this episode you’ll hear highlights from a May 2018 panel discussion which we titled Comedy + Journalism = ??We’re all familiar with satirical magazines, websites and TV shows like Private Eye, The Daily Mash and Have I Got News For You that deal with national and global news, but what are the opportunities for mixing comedy with local journalis…
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J-Lab Episode 4: Tuning in or turning off? The challenges for local TV news
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In this episode you’ll hear highlights from an April 2018 panel discussion which we titled Tuning In, or Turning Off: What Next For Local TV News?Where does local TV news fit in the digital age?How can local TV news be reinvented for the Millennial generation?What are the opportunities for collaboration and innovation?Our panellists:MICHAELA BYRNE,…
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Podcasting is having a major impact on the way we “do” journalism, whether we work in radio or other types of media. In this episode we hear from Lina Prestwood, a former commissioning editor of documentaries at Channel 4 and producer of Fathers and Sons, winner of "Podcast of The Year 2017; Peter Jukes, investigative journalist and co-creator of p…
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J-Lab Episode 2: Unreached, unheard, unreported
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How do we bring new voices and new experiences into journalism? In this episode we talk to Joshi Hermann, editor-in-chief at The Tab, Jamie Clifton, editor of Vice UK, Helen Amess, who is outreach manager at BBC North and Michael Segalov, news editor at Huck, about how they each seek to satisfy audiences that other media organisations struggle to r…
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J-Lab Episode 1: What Next For Local Journalism?
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What are the challenges and opportunities for local journalism in the north east...and elsewhere?In this episode we hear the views of Helen Dalby, editor of ChronicleLive, and regional head of digital for Trinity Mirror; Gavin Foster, managing editor of the Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette and Hartlepool Mail; Megan Lucero, head of Google-funded Th…
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