Luke Jones
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| Luke Jones | |
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| https://www.marygreenham.co.uk/images/clients/luke_jones.jpg | |
| Born | 3 July 1993 Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom |
| 🏫 Education | King's College London |
| 💼 Occupation | Radio broadcaster & journalist |
| 🌐 Website | www.jonesluke.co.uk |
Luke Jones (born 3rd July 1993 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He co-presents the breakfast programme on Times Radio from 6-10 am on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays with Jenny Kleeman.[1][2] He appeared throughout the station's launch day on 29 June 2020, reporting from a maternity unit in Newcastle.[3]
Jones started his career on BBC Radio 4[4], reporting for, and later relief presenting on, the PM, World at One and Broadcasting House programmes[5]. He was also a stand-in presenter on Saturday Live.
For two years he presented iPM, a spin-off of the main PM programme.[6] At 24 Jones was the youngest person to present a Radio 4 news programme.[7]
Press coverage[edit]
On Times Radio's launch day, 29 June 2020, Mark Lawson wrote in The Guardian: "Luke Jones, a talented young reporter bought in from Radio 4’s lunchtime news shows, made a bright start, reporting throughout the day from a maternity unit at a hospital in Newcastle – another very Radio 5 live type of feature. Jones suddenly lost an interviewee because she was “in the birthing pool and starting to push”, a line I have only heard previously on radio in The Archers. Trumping that, the reporter later introduced the debut day’s most startling sound-effect – a baby vomiting. Jones, who will also co-host Friday-Sunday breakfasts, feels like another loss to the BBC."[8]
The Daily Telegraph's Charlotte Runcie took a different view: "Something I hated was the deployment of journalist Luke Jones to report from a maternity ward intermittently throughout the first day, in a sledgehammer metaphor for the birth of a new radio station. This could have been an interesting report on the impact of Covid-19 on NHS maternity provision, and occasionally nearly managed it, but mostly ended up as a point-and-stare exercise to the sound of women screaming and babies vomiting. Jones provided such sensitive journalistic insights as asking new fathers “which end” they were at during the birth."[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Times Radio taps BBC and Channel 4 stars ahead of summer launch". CityAM. 2020-04-27. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ↑ "Times Radio launch: full schedule". inews.co.uk. 29 June 2020.
- ↑ Lloyd, David (2020-06-29). "Times Radio - Day One". David Lloyd's Radio Moments.
- ↑ "The full schedule and line-up for the new Times Radio, and how to listen". inews.co.uk. 2020-06-29. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ↑ Correspondent, Matthew Moore, Media. "Times Radio reveals line-up of presenters to take on BBC". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
- ↑ "iPM". BBC.
- ↑ Stevenson, Michael (2018-11-16). "Podcast: Fortunately… with Fi and Jane". The HOBBLEDEHOY. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
- ↑ Lawson, Mark (2020-06-29). "Rupert's radio: can Murdoch's Times Radio compete with the BBC?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ↑ Runcie, Charlotte (2020-07-01). "Despite opening with an agenda-grabbing Boris Johnson interview, Times Radio's launch was a cosy affair". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
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