Leading journalist and broadcaster Lewis Goodall is joining Global, the Media & Entertainment group, as the third host on Global’s major new podcast co-presented by Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel, which will launch this autumn.
Goodall will also be Analysis & Investigations Editor for Global, with a remit to supercharge the broadcaster’s video journalism, reporting on breaking stories in the UK and beyond, and creating high impact content for the podcast, Global Player and across social channels for LBC.
Goodall joins Global from BBC’s Newsnight, where he was Policy Editor for BBC 2’s late night current affairs show. Before that, he was a Political Correspondent for Sky News. Goodall’s reports at Newsnight include highly regarded investigations and reporting on care homes during Covid, the exams fiasco, building safety scandals and the war in Ukraine leading to the biggest refugee crisis since 1945.
Global Player hosts hundreds of videos and is enjoying rapid growth, broadcasting a range of content from televising LBC’s Tonight with Andrew Marr to live streaming Capital’s Summertime Ball. On social media, LBC averages 350 million video views each month and recently launched a TikTok channel.
“The chance to join Emily and Jon in their bid to create the world’s best and most innovative daily news podcast was exciting enough, but the opportunity to help lead and supercharge Global’s commitment to quality video journalism and reporting – my great passion – in this next major stage in their expansion, took things to another level still. I can’t wait to get started.”
Lewis Goodall
Global signs journalist Lewis Goodall
“I’m delighted that Lewis will be joining Emily and Jon for our new Global podcast. Lewis combines expansive knowledge of the inner workings of Westminster with brilliant storytelling, and impactful, agenda-setting reporting which will be a core focus as we continue to enhance our video output.
“Global has always led the way when it comes to visualising audio and as we move into the next phase of growth, video journalism will play an increasingly important role in how we reach and engage audiences.”
Tom Cheal, Managing Editor of LBC
Global Original podcasts include Full Disclosure with James O’Brien, Hunting Ghislaine with investigative journalist John Sweeney, Rachel Johnson’s Difficult Women as well as chart-topping Originals such as My Therapist Ghosted Me.
Global Player hosts thousands of podcasts, all for free, and Global recently acquired the podcast-hosting platform Captivate. Combined with Global’s marketing infrastructure across its out of home and radio portfolios, the Global Player platform, alongside Captivate, is becoming one of the most natural homes for podcast creators in the UK.
LBC is the UK’s number one commercial talk brand, with 3.5m weekly listeners. It is available across the UK on DAB digital radio, worldwide on Global Player on smart speakers (“play LBC”), iOS or Android device, at LBC.co.uk, in London on 97.3 FM and on Sky TV.
Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, video content, and expertly-curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers.
