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词条 Joe Lynam
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  1. Overview

  2. Education

  3. Broadcasting career

  4. Personal life

     His son's birth in a car 

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}Joe Lynam is an award winning broadcaster who used to work for the BBC in the United Kingdom.[1]

Lynam was a business correspondent. He was the relief business presenter on BBC's flagship Today Programme. Between 2011 and 2013, he was the business correspondent with Newsnight.[2]

Overview

During the height of the European debt crisis 2011-2012, Joe Lynam was business correspondent with Newsnight and travelled to Cyprus, Spain, Belgium, Italy and Ireland to cover the sense of fear in many Eurozone countries.[3]

Between 2008–2012, Joe Lynam was the BBC's Weekend Business Correspondent covering economic, business, company, financial and personal finance news on the main BBC One bulletins as well as BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Radio 4,[4] BBC Five Live and the BBC World Service.[1]

He was also relief Business Presenter on BBC News and BBC Breakfast.[5]

Education

Lynam studied International Commerce at University College Dublin (UCD) in Dublin.[6]

Broadcasting career

Lynam broke the story in August 2006 when a planned terror plot involving a liquid bomb on a UK plane was unearthed.[7]

At the key G20 crisis summit in London in April 2009, Lynam was the first broadcast journalist to reveal live on BBC News with Emily Maitlis that the total amount of money pledged to fix the financial system was going to be $1.1trillion[8]

Lynam is widely credited with breaking the news that Ireland was in talks with the IMF and EU to get a bailout loan in November 2010.[9] Although this was initially denied by the Irish government, it was proven to be true.

In March 2012, Lynam broke the story that the UK Government was in serious talks with [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17514390 Abu Dhabi] with the view to selling it a substantial stake in RBS.[10] This story led to a RBS share prices jumping 5% the following day

In September 2012, Lynam broadcast a report on Newsnight about alleged mis-selling by several UK based investment banks in Italy and how the UK regulator, the FSA, was made aware of it but failed to act.[11]

In 2016 Joe and the Money Box programme on Radio 4 were awarded the prestigious Wincott award for financial journalism for his work on fraud and Vishing. He was the first to [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34162153 broadcast fraudsters on the phone in the act of defrauding a woman out of £12,000].

In 2017, he acquired the full highly critical report for the FCA into how RBS 'mistreated its small business customers'[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41048691]. This led to an enquiry by MPs on the Treasury Committee in the House of Commons. In 2018 he was awarded the [https://twitter.com/BBC_Joe_Lynam/status/993968949149790209 'Business Story of the Year'] at the Headline Money Awards  

Personal life

Lynam lives in West London with his Estonian wife Riina.[12] They have two sons.

Lynam is a cousin of the Irish-born British BBC and ITV presenter Des Lynam.

His father (also Joe Lynam) died in 2010. Joe senior had been RTÉ's show jumping correspondent in the 1980s.[13]His mother, Christina Lynam, runs a charity Cara Malawi to which he regularly contributes.[14]

In 2010, Lynam helped raise money for the Chiltern Centre for disabled children in Greys Road, Henley-on-Thames, and Power International in High Wycombe.[15]

Before becoming a journalist, Lynam ran a chain of pubs in Germany in the 1990s and speaks fluent German.[16]

Lynam chaired a debate for the London Irish Business Society on the future of the Eurozone,[17] again benefiting Cara Malawi.[14]

His son's birth in a car

Joe Lynam's second son was born in the front seat of his car on the way to the hospital.[18]

He admitted that he "broke every red light" in an effort to get his wife who was at the time his girlfriend to hospital in time; he was not fast enough however – and the little boy Seán was born in his Vauxhall Astra estate on 21 June 2013.

The story was widely covered in many media outlets including the Daily Mail,[19] The Daily Telegraph[20] and the BBC's in house magazine Ariel.[21]

References

1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/?q=joe%20lynam |title=Hinkley Point nuclear plant to get final approval |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |accessdate=23 October 2013}}
2. ^{{cite web|author=jblynam |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGbWnth-BkM |title=Eurozone crisis BBC Newsnight's Joe Lynam. It's all about France, Germany & Tintin |publisher=YouTube |date=22 October 2011 |accessdate=12 August 2012}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-16563011/eu-debt-crisis-olli-rehn-attacks-credit-downgrade|title=Europe attacks downgrade decision|date=1 July 2018|publisher=|via=www.bbc.co.uk}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/news/?q=joe%20lynam&audio=on |title=Scottish independence: Icelandic view on referendum |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |accessdate=23 October 2013}}
5. ^{{cite web|author=jblynam |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjtBfUkKXrE |title=Japanese Yen and G7 action Susanna Red and Joe Lynam on Breakfast TV |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=12 August 2012}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ucd.ie/quinn/studentlife/careersandalumni/meetouralumni/mainbody,10469,en.html |title=UCD Quinn School of Business: Meet Our Alumni |publisher=Ucd.ie |date= |accessdate=12 August 2012}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/08_august/10/terrorplot.shtml |title=Press Office – BBC clears schedules for terror plot coverage |publisher=BBC |date= |accessdate=12 August 2012}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsuoxk-M-Q |title=Joe Lynam scoop at the G20 summit in London $1.1 trillion aid package |publisher=YouTube |date= |accessdate=12 August 2012}}
9. ^{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/cowen-fury-at-bbc-when-not-whether-bailout-claim-2419458.html |title=Cowen fury at BBC 'when not whether' bailout claim |publisher=Independent.ie |date=14 November 2010 |accessdate=23 October 2013}}
10. ^{{cite web|last=Lynam |first=Joe |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17514390 |title=BBC News – UK in talks to sell part of RBS stake to Abu Dhabi |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=26 March 2012 |accessdate=12 August 2012}}
11. ^{{cite news |last=Lynam |first=Joe |title=UK-based banks accused of massive mis-selling in Italy |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19545849 |accessdate=2 October 2013 |publisher=BBC News |date=11 September 2012}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/dream-draw-a-nightmare-for-irishman-and-estonian-partner-2931012.html |title=Dream draw for one couple|publisher=Standard.co.uk|accessdate=23 October 2013}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/sport/equestrian/2010/1222/lynamj.html |title=Joe Lynam passes away – RTÉ Sport |publisher=Rte.ie |date=22 December 2010 |accessdate=12 August 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225044813/http://www.rte.ie/sport/equestrian/2010/1222/lynamj.html |archivedate=25 December 2010 |df= }}
14. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://caramalawi.ie/ |title=Cara Malawi | Helping the Poor of Malawi Help themselves |publisher=Caramalawi.ie |date=31 July 2012 |accessdate=12 August 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425112159/http://caramalawi.ie/ |archivedate=25 April 2012 |df= }}
15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=834591 |title=Henley on Thames – BBC man is guest speaker at charity dinner |publisher=Henleystandard.co.uk |date=8 November 2010 |accessdate=12 August 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405141344/http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=834591 |archivedate=5 April 2012 |df= }}
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/glosspublications/docs/ucd_connections |title=UCD Connections Alumni Magazine |publisher=Issuu.com |date=24 August 2011 |accessdate=12 August 2012}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.d1193381-396.cp.blacknight.com/?p=42 |title=Recent Events: The Eurozone – Friend or Foe | LIBS |publisher=D1193381-396.cp.blacknight.com |date= |accessdate=12 August 2012}}
18. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/bbc-business-reporter-joe-lynams-dash-to-hospital-ends-with-wife-giving-birth-in-vauxhall-astra-8668176.html |title=Dream draw for one couple|publisher=Standard.co.uk|accessdate=23 October 2013}}
19. ^{{cite web|author=Suzannah Hills |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2345932/BBC-Newsnight-journalists-hospital-dash-ends-girlfriend-giving-birth-seat-Vauxhall-Astra.html |title=BBC Newsnight journalist's hospital dash ends with his girlfriend giving birth in the front seat of their Vauxhall Astra | Mail Online |publisher=Dailymail.co.uk |date=21 June 2013 |accessdate=23 October 2013}}
20. ^{{cite web|last=Dixon |first=Hayley |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10135922/BBC-business-reporters-son-born-in-a-Vauxhall-Astra.html |title=BBC business reporter's son born in a Vauxhall Astra |publisher=Telegraph |date=21 June 2013 |accessdate=23 October 2013}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/23001371 |title=Ariel – Business reporter Joe Lynam's son born in car |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=21 June 2013 |accessdate=23 October 2013}}

External links

  • Independent.ie
  • [https://twitter.com/BBC_Joe_Lynam @BBC_Joe_Lynam Verified Twitter Account]
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