Lewis Goodall was born on 1 July 1989 and is a British journalist, broadcaster and author.
25 Facts About Lewis Goodall
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Lewis Goodall worked as a researcher for Granada Studios before becoming a political correspondent for Sky News.
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Lewis Goodall later became policy editor of the BBC's flagship current affairs programme Newsnight.
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Lewis Goodall was raised on a council estate in Longbridge; he attended Turves Green Boys' School and completed his A Levels at Cadbury Sixth Form College.
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Lewis Goodall's mother gave birth to him at the age of 17.
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Lewis Goodall's father was a welder at the nearby Rover Company factory.
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Lewis Goodall studied at St John's College, Oxford, graduating in 2010 with a degree in history and politics.
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Lewis Goodall later became an Entente Cordiale scholar, spending time learning French in Paris and Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Normal University.
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Lewis Goodall was the first in his family to go to university.
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Lewis Goodall then worked for the centre-left think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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Lewis Goodall began his career in journalism as a producer and reporter at the BBC in 2012, where he was a producer on the Daily Politics.
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Lewis Goodall later become Economics and Business Analyst for BBC News.
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In 2015, Lewis Goodall reported from both the Charlie Hebdo shooting and November 2015 Paris attacks.
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Lewis Goodall conducted the last interview with Labour Party politician Denis Healey before the latter's death in October 2015.
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Lewis Goodall left the BBC in 2016 to join Sky News as a political correspondent.
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Lewis Goodall became known for his coverage of the Brexit crisis and the strife within the Labour Party, and in 2019 was named a MHP Communications '30 under 30' young journalists to watch.
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Lewis Goodall became known for his election and data analysis and became a main presenter on Sky's election programmes in 2017 and 2019.
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Lewis Goodall returned to the BBC in January 2020 as Newsnight's policy editor.
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Lewis Goodall 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 the death rate.
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Lewis Goodall featured in the BBC's election night coverage and was called a "rising star" of the corporation.
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Lewis Goodall later stated that the BBC had not protected his editorial freedom from criticism by former Conservative Party communications chief, Robbie Gibb, who was appointed to the BBC board in May 2021 and should not have had direct editorial involvement.
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Lewis Goodall stated on Twitter he would be remaining at Newsnight for "a while yet".
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Lewis Goodall became presenter of a Friday politics show for LBC.
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Lewis Goodall writes for the New Statesman and other print and online outlets.
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Lewis Goodall married Tone Langengen, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's senior climate and energy policy advisor, in August 2023.