Next week the former BBC stars launch The News Agents, their new daily podcast for Global. They talk about impartiality, making their TikTok debut – and how they drive each other mad
, will come into his own . “He loves detail,” says Sopel. Wasn’t the BBC crazy to let him go? Isn’t Goodall, who is 33, precisely the kind of young journalist it should be promoting as the old guard take up new opportunities? “Yeah, I didn’t think we’d get him. I’m thrilled. But he speaks to our ambition. Risk, jeopardy, challenge. Whatever you want to call it, we’ve got it and Lewis is up for it.” Goodall will present the podcast on Fridays.his story begins with Maitlis.
But all this talk of clandestine negotiations and fresh fields can’t disguise the fact that their departure coincided with a “clampdown” on impartiality by the BBC’s director general, Tim Davie, something that Maitlis in particular has seemed sometimes to struggle with in recent years . “I’m happy to engage completely with this subject,” says Sopel. “I just think it’s the big thing.” Is it one reason why they are at Global? “No, that’s not quite right,” says Maitlis.
“Impartiality will be really important for us here,” says Maitlis. “We’re not trying to do shock-jock stuff. We’re not trying to scream opinions at the world. Impartiality, in its true sense, is about covering stories without fear or favour. I get nervous when impartiality is used as a way of shutting down journalists. Is it because you were asking questions you shouldn’t have been? I don’t think that’s impartiality - that’s censorship.
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