Lewis Goodall

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Lewis Goodall
Born (1989-07-01) 1 July 1989 (age 34)
Birmingham, England
Alma mater St John's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist, television reporter, author
Employer(s) BBC
Sky News
LBC
Spouse
Tone Langengen
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(m. 2023)​

Lewis Goodall (born 1 July 1989) is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Raised in Birmingham, he worked as a journalist for Granada Studios before becoming a political correspondent for Sky News. He later became policy editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight .

Contents

In 2022, along with then BBC presenters Emily Maitlis (Newsnight) and Jon Sopel ( Politics Show ), in frustration at the BBC's editorial policy, he quit the broadcaster to launch the The News Agents podcast. [1] His first book "Left for Dead?: The Strange Death and Rebirth of the Labour Party" was published in September 2018.

Early life

Goodall was born on 1 July 1989. [2] A native of Birmingham, Goodall was raised on a council estate in Longbridge and attended the local Turves Green Boys' School and completed his A Levels at Cadbury Sixth Form College. He had a teenage mother who was 17 at the time of his birth. His father was a welder at the Rover Company factory near where he lived. [3] He studied at St John's College, Oxford, graduating in 2010 with a degree in history and politics. [4]

While at Oxford he spent time in the United States as an intern to the Democrat House Representative Diana DeGette. [5] He later became an Entente Cordiale scholar, spending time learning French in Paris [6] and Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Normal University. [7] He was the first in his family to go to university. [8] Goodall was a volunteer and party member for the Labour Party whilst at school. [9] [10]

Career

Granada and the BBC

After graduation Goodall worked for Granada Studios as a question writer for the quiz show University Challenge . [4] He worked for the centre-left think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research. [11] At the IPPR he was main researcher for the "Northern Economic Futures Commission" think tank. [12] He began his career in Jourlamism as a producer and reporter at the BBC in 2012, where he was a producer on the Daily Politics. He later become Economics and Business Analyst for BBC News. [13]

In 2014 he joined BBC Newsnight as a political researcher, briefing presenters for major political interviews before becoming an occasional reporter for the programme as well as wider BBC output including Victoria Derbyshire and BBC Radio Four. [4] In 2015 Goodall reported from both the Charlie Hebdo shooting and November 2015 Paris attacks. Goodall conducted the last interview with Labour Party politician Denis Healey before his death in October 2015. [4]

Sky News

Goodall left the BBC in 2016 to join Sky News as a political correspondent. He became known for his coverage of the Brexit crisis, the civil war within the Labour Party, and in 2019 was named a MHP Communications '30 under 30' young journalists to watch. [14] That year he presented a documentary on the rise of Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party. [15] He became known for his elections and data analysis and became a main presenter on Sky's election programmes in 2017 and 2019. His first book, an analysis of New Labour and Jeremy Corbyn titled Left for Dead?: The Strange Death and Rebirth of the Labour Party was published in 2018. [16] [17]

Return to Newsnight

He returned to the BBC in January 2020 as Newsnight's policy editor. [18] [19] He went on to become one of the most prominent faces of the BBC's reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic, especially its impact on schools, care homes and excess deaths. In August 2020 he reported extensively on the A-level grading scandal, [11] credited with changing government policy over which grades would be given to students in that year's exams, for which he was nominated for an Orwell Prize in 2021. [11] In 2022, he reported from the western Ukrainian border on the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War and resultant refugee crisis in eastern Poland. [20] That year he presented a Radio Four documentary "What is a Tory?" on the evolution of Conservative political thought. [21] Goodall featured in the BBC's election night coverage and was called a "rising star" of the corporation. [22]

The News Agents

In June 2022, Goodall announced he was leaving the BBC to join media company Global Media & Entertainment to make a daily podcast ( The News Agents with Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel). [22] He stated on Twitter he would be remaining at Newsnight for "a while yet". [23] The News Agents was launched on 30 August 2022, [24] and was named "Best Daily Podcast" in 2023. He also became presenter of a Friday politics show for LBC. He was named as the sole presenter of the investigative documentary series “News Agents Investigates” in the same year.

Goodall writes for the New Statesman and a number of other print and online outlets. [25]

Personal life

He married Tone Langengen, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's senior climate and energy policy advisor, in August 2023. [26] [27]

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