Joe Lynam - Broadcaster and Moderator

Joe Lynam is a respected broadcaster and moderator who has just been appointed the business editor and Presenter with Newstalk.

He is also a freelance presenter of the current affairs show ‘The Newsroom’ on the BBCWorld Service and Radio 4. And before that Joe was the BBC’s business correspondent for many years.

Joe has won many awards for his original journalism including the 2018 Headline Money Award for his BBC One exposé of how RBS (GRG) treated many of its own business customers. Joe was also the first to broadcast on Radio 4 a phone fraud (Vishing) in almost real time as an elderly lady unwittingly handed over her life savings to fraudsters. For that, he won the Wincott prize for Journalism in 2016.

Joe has travelled the world with the BBC covering the financial crisis (2007-2010), followed by the Eurozone crisis (2010-2013) and more recently the economic and political fallout from the Brexit referendum.

He has presented on the Today programme, Newsnight, BBC One Breakfast as well as Five Live and the BBC News Channel.

He has lived in Germany, UK, Netherlands, Australia, Belgium and Ireland and speaks five languages.