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Leigh Jones
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Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc

Editor, The Teesside Lead.

🔗 https://theteessidelead.substack.com

Used to work in music. Ex-Yorkshire Post Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
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I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
He's in front of the Parliamentary committee later, so I imagine he probably thinks that'll do.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I mean if you can just sharezone the thing why not.
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
There are very clear lines of responsibility in the editorial process, and the people all have names.
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'm not saying it isn't hard. You couldn't pay me enough money to be DG.

But if you're the sort of person who gets into that role, to not see out something like this seems a bit like you're bottling it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
They were absolutely brilliant that day in Hyde Park!
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
There's a reason it was their first album to go to number 1 (and become one of the best selling albums in history).
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Justice had a better guitar sound imo.
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
If I'm reading the news on the radio I select stories I think the audience wants to hear, which isn't necessarily what I think is important.

It's a job, and the point of you being there is that you switch off your own opinions for your shift and deliver everything as objectively as possible.
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The more I think about this the more furious I get.

Anyone who's known me since before I became a journalist, or who knows me in real life knows I have Very Strong Opinions on just about everything.

But you don't let that enter your work.
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The worrying thing is she's told me what five different people say it means - all different things - and I really hope she doesn't use this instinct to become a journalist.
November 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
In explaining I started by saying... "Have you ever heard anyone saying 'Skibidi'?"
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
"All the boys in my class keep saying it but I don't think they know what it means"
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
GMCA have been using it, but this Guardian article cites the source as being Alamy.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I remember when this was all fields and she was a music journalist.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Considering the preparation needed for a colonoscopy, this is incredible.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM