Lewis Goodall

About Lewis Goodall

Lewis Goodall is Analysis & Investigations Editor at Global and co-presenter of a new podcast with Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel.

Lewis is an effective and engaging storyteller who has worked across the BBC producing and presenting documentaries and appearing on news output across the corporation’s platforms covering policy, government and economics.

He also has experience working as a Sky News political correspondent, writing questions for University Challenge and working in the United States Congress as an intern for Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado.

Career

Lewis began his broadcasting career in 2010 as a researcher with Granada Television writing questions for University Challenge before joining think tank the Institute for Public Policy research in 2011.

He moved to the BBC in 2012 as a producer and reporter working on BBC Two’s  Victoria Derbyshire and programmes on Radio 4 including producing documentary Generation Right looking at shifting trends in young people’s political affiliations.

In 2017 Lewis moved to Sky News as Political Correspondent where he undertook a to year project aboard the ‘Lewis Lorry’ touring the country to look at how Brexit will affect businesses, people and places not usually in the media spotlight.

After three years at Sky Lewis returned to the BBC as Policy Editor for Newsnight where he also played an increasing role in the corporation’s election coverage. He has covered a wide range of subjects including the war in Ukraine and the resulting refugee crisis, building safety post-Grenfell and the schools exam crisis in the summer of 2020, for which he was nominated for the Orwell Prize.

In September 2022 Lewis joins Global as co-presented of a new podcast with Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel as well as being Analysis & Investigations Editor with a remit to work on video journalism, reporting breaking stories and producing content for podcasts and social channels on LBC.

Lewis also writes for the New Statesman magazine.

Books

Left for Dead?; The Strange Death and Rebirth of the Labour Party, published in 2018, is an examination of the shifting fortunes of Labour in the 21^st Century from political dominance under Tony Blair to the election loosing opposition under Jeremy Corbyn and its impact on the future for the party.

Personal Life

Lewis studied History and Politics at St John’s College, Oxford, the first in his family to go to university. He has also studied French as an Entente Cordiale Scholar at Alliance Francaise, Paris and Mandarin at Beijing Normal University. He lives in London.