J-Lab

J-Lab

Civic Journalism Lab at Newcastle University

Episodes 46
Avg. Duration 31m
Activity Active
Since Nov 2017
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Months
Consistency
61%
Hosting
feeds.soundcloud.com

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About This Podcast

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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Recent Episodes

J-Lab Episode 46: Reimagining local news, with Jim Waterson of London Centric

Mar 05, 2026 26m

Jim Waterson is former media editor at The Guardian and now the publisher of London Centric, which covers politics, business and life in the UK capital via a fast-growing Substack newsletter as well…

J-Lab Episode 45: The Salt Path scandal, with Chloe Hadjimatheou of the Observer

Jan 08, 2026 32m

This episode centres on The Salt Path, a publishing phenomenon that has sold millions of copies worldwide, inspired a major film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, and has become, for many…

J-Lab Episode 44: Reporting on the deaths of young people in custody, with Dani Garavelli

Dec 12, 2025 25m

In this episode, we talk with award-winning investigative journalist Dani Garavelli, whose reporting for the London Review of Books on the suicides of Katie Allan and William Lindsay at Polmont Young…

J-Lab Episode 43: Doing the 92 with The i Paper's Daniel Storey

Nov 14, 2025 25m

Our guest on this episode is The i Paper’s chief football writer, Daniel Storey, who has just completed an extraordinary project: visiting and reporting from all 92 Premier and EFL (English Football…

J-Lab Episode 42: An ethical approach to crime reporting and true crime content, with Bethany Usher

Oct 31, 2024 56m

As the public’s fascination with crime stories grows, so too does the responsibility of those who bring these stories to light. Whether through traditional journalism or increasingly popular true…

J-Lab Episode 41: Breaking the RAAC in schools story with Jessica Hill

May 16, 2024 37m

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…

J-Lab Episode 40: Going undercover with Paul Morgan-Bentley of The Times

May 03, 2024 35m

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…

J-Lab Episode 39: Reporting the Grenfell cladding scandal, with Martina Lees of the Sunday Times

May 23, 2023 24m

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…

J-Lab Episode 38: Analytical journalism with BBC Newsnight's Hannah Barnes

Mar 31, 2023 31m

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…

J-Lab Episode 37: Reporting family courts with Louise Tickle

Jul 28, 2022 30m

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…

J-Lab Episode 36: Reporting Russia with Meduza's Ivan Kolpakov

Mar 16, 2022 31m

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…

J-Lab Episode 35: Reimagining local news with Joshi Herrmann of The Mill

Feb 01, 2022 33m

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…

J-Lab Episode 34: Freelancing as a foreign correspondent, with Jessie Williams

Dec 08, 2021 22m

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…

J-Lab Episode 33: Open source investigations with Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat

Nov 04, 2021 30m

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…

J-Lab Episode 32: Exposing doping in sport, with Nick Harris of the Mail on Sunday

Oct 07, 2021 32m

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…

J-Lab Episode 31: Reporting county lines drugs gangs and knife crime, with Annabel Deas

Jul 08, 2021 26m

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…

J-Lab Episode 30: Holding Victoria Beckham and James Norton to account, with Katie Hind

May 24, 2021 27m

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…

J-Lab Episode 29: Failures of state, with George Arbuthnott of the Sunday Times Insight team

Apr 23, 2021 27m

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…

J-Lab Episode 28: Reporting war rape, with Christina Lamb of the Sunday Times

Mar 26, 2021 39m

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…

J-Lab Episode 27: Decolonising journalism with Zing Tsjeng

Mar 12, 2021 24m

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…

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J-Lab has published 46 episodes since November 2017, covering topics in News.

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