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J-Lab
A forum for professional, student and community journalists in the north east of England to meet, learn and collaborate. It’s supported by Newcastle University.
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42 episodi
J-Lab Episode 42: An ethical approach to crime reporting and true crime content, with Bethany Usher
As the public’s fascination with crime stories grows, so too does the responsibility of those who bring these stories to light. Whether through tradit...
J-Lab Episode 41: Breaking the RAAC in schools story with Jessica Hill
Our guest on this episode is Jessica Hill, senior investigations and features reporter for Schools Week and FE Week. Jessica was the first journalist...
J-Lab Episode 40: Going undercover with Paul Morgan-Bentley of The Times
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...
J-Lab Episode 39: Reporting the Grenfell cladding scandal, with Martina Lees of the Sunday Times
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 t...
J-Lab Episode 38: Analytical journalism with BBC Newsnight's Hannah Barnes
Our J-Lab guest this episode is Hannah Barnes, investigations producer for the BBC’s Newsnight programme.
Hannah’s reports with science c...
J-Lab Episode 37: Reporting family courts with Louise Tickle
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 car...
J-Lab Episode 36: Reporting Russia with Meduza's Ivan Kolpakov
New laws banning independent coverage of the invasion of Ukraine have forced many news outlets to leave Russia.
Meduza claims to be Russia’s big...
J-Lab Episode 35: Reimagining local news with Joshi Herrmann of The Mill
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 Manch...
J-Lab Episode 34: Freelancing as a foreign correspondent, with Jessie Williams
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...
J-Lab Episode 33: Open source investigations with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat
Eliot Higgins is founder of online investigative collective Bellingcat which, over the last 10 years, has used open source investigation techniques to...
J-Lab Episode 32: Exposing doping in sport, with Nick Harris of the Mail on Sunday
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. A...
J-Lab Episode 31: Reporting county lines drugs gangs and knife crime, with Annabel Deas
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 podcas...
J-Lab Episode 30: Holding Victoria Beckham and James Norton to account, with Katie Hind
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...
J-Lab Episode 29: Failures of state, with George Arbuthnott of the Sunday Times Insight team
George Arbuthnott and Jonathan Calvert of the Sunday Times Insight team have published the first major book telling the inside story of Britain's batt...
J-Lab Episode 28: Reporting war rape, with Christina Lamb of the Sunday Times
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...
J-Lab Episode 27: Decolonising journalism with Zing Tsjeng
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...
J-Lab Episode 26: Reporting China's detention centres
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...
J-Lab Episode 25: The prince and the billionaire, with Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Stephanie Kirchgaessner’s exclusive investigative report of January 2020 about a multi-billionaire, a royal prince, phone hacking and murder was jaw-d...
J-Lab Episode 24: Reporting Project Big Picture, with Telegraph chief football writer Sam Wallace
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 footbal...
J-Lab Episode 23: Reporting domestic abuse by police officers, with Alexandra Heal of TBIJ
Alexandra Heal is an investigative reporter whose work for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on domestic abuse by police officers won her the Pri...
J-Lab Episode 22: Redeeming the vox pop, with the Guardian's John Harris
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 b...
J-Lab Episode 21: Reporting the care homes crisis, with Nick Martin of Sky News
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 h...
J-Lab Episode 20: Breaking the Dominic Cummings story, with the Daily Mirror's Pippa Crear
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...
J-Lab Episode 19: Reporting Covid-19
In this episode, we focus on how journalists are meeting the challenges of reporting the coronavirus crisis. We talk to Nico Piro, a foreign correspon...
J-Lab Episode 18: Q&A with Yvonne Ridley on Official Secrets
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...
J-Lab Episode 17: Press regulation with former IPSO chair Sir Alan Moses
Unlike broadcasters, the UK press – in print or online – has no state regulator like Ofcom requiring it to be impartial. There are many implications t...
J-Lab Episode 16: Q&A with crime reporter Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell was the crime correspondent of the Guardian and chairman of the Crime Reporters’ Association. He has written four books on crime, incl...
J-Lab Episode 15: HuffPost UK's Jess Brammar and Emma Youle
HuffPost UK executive editor Jess Brammar, who’s a former deputy editor of Newsnight, gives us her thoughts on investigative reporting in a digital ag...
J-Lab Episode 14: Carrie Gracie and the fight for gender equality at the BBC
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...
J-Lab Episode 13: Journalist persona on social media
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, c...
J-Lab Episode 12: Reporting Brexit
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'CAR...
J -Lab Episode 11: Artificial intelligence meets journalism, with Pete Daykin
The focus of this podcast episode is artificial intelligence and how it might shape the future of journalism. Taken from our Can Technology Reboot Jou...
J -Lab Episode 10: LinkedIn for journalists, with Katie Carroll
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have been a huge disrupter for news organisations – and it’s where millions of people now g...
J -Lab Episode 9: Technology-enabled reporting, with Paul Gallagher
As part of our Can Technology Reboot Journalism? event, we hear the thoughts and experiences of Paul Gallagher, who is digital innovations editor at R...
J-Lab Episode 8: Media for the people and community journalism
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 chal...
J-Lab Episode 7: No filter: a frank discussion about photojournalism
Jo-Anne McArthur, award-winning Canadian photojournalist, campaigner and author
In this podcast episode, Newcastle University's Civic Jou...
J-Lab Episode 6: Investigating the Windrush scandal, with The Guardian's Amelia Gentleman
In this episode, Guardian reporter Amelia Gentleman describes how she uncovered the so-called Windrush scandal – the wrongful detention and deportatio...
J-Lab Episode 5: Comedy + Journalism = ??
In this episode you’ll hear highlights from a May 2018 panel discussion which we titled Comedy + Journalism = ??
We’re all familiar with satiric...
J-Lab Episode 4: Tuning in or turning off? The challenges for local TV news
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?
J-Lab Episode 3: Journalism by podcast
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...