Our How to be a Journalist podcast will be recorded live at JournoFest 2025 for our tenth anniversary.
JournoFest brings together News Associates and The School of Journalism trainees for a day-long festival of high-profile speakers and special guests from the media industry – and our tenth event in March will be our biggest yet!
In a JournoFest first, How to be a Journalist host Plamedi Mbungu will be recording a special episode with four podcast journalists live, that will be uploaded to Spotify and YouTube after the event.
Joining Mbungu on the podcasting panel are Dansplaining co-host Jordan Rason, BuzzFeed’s Seasoned Sessions producer and presenter Hanifah Rahman, The Sports Agents senior producer Adonis Pratsides and PoliticsJOE junior political correspondent Laura Beveridge.
Jordan Rason co-hosts the UK’s top fashion podcast Dansplaining. It launched in 2022 and works to make conversation around high fashion accessible and relaxed.
He was the head of editorial at Gen-Z digital media company Culted.
When he is not in the studio, he is a creative director and has worked with clients like Pepsi, Prada, Levi’s and many more.
Jordan Rason
Since gaining her NCTJ in 2016, Hanifah Rahman has excelled in all things multimedia.
After leaving Channel 4 as a freelance scriptwriter and researcher, she became an entertainment editor at Buzzfeed.
During her time at Buzzfeed, she has produced and co-hosted the award-winning Seasoned Sessions, a weekly entertainment news podcast that has amassed more than 90,000 views.
Hanifah Rahman
Adonis Pratsides has a history in audio production.
During his time at The Athletic, he produced The Athletic Football Podcast, The Athletic Football Tactics Podcast and their dedicated Spurs podcast, The View From the Lane.
He now is an executive producer of The Sports Agents podcast, a twice-weekly sports news podcast at Global, which has been nominated for two Best British Podcast awards.
Adonis Pratsides
Laura Beveridge achieved her NCTJ diploma with News Associates in 2023, after studying International Relations at the University of St Andrews. She is now a junior political correspondent at PoliticsJOE and JOE.
Blending her political background with humour, she is now a producer of the podcasts Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore and the PoliticsJOE Pubcast.
Laura Beveridge
The podcast recording will include plenty of time for questions from our audience of 200 trainees and guests in person, and even more via Zoom.
JournoFest 2025 will take place at The Twickenham Stoop – and be livestreamed – on Saturday March 15.
You can follow all the action on Instagram @NewsAssociates.
The Twickenham Stoop has been home to the Harlequins since 1963 when they acquired the ground, initially as a training pitch. It was named in memory of Adrian Stoop who played for Harlequins 182 times over 38 years and was president of the club for 29 years.
See our highlights from previous JournoFest events here.