Staff Profile

Claire Hawthorn is a Broadcast Journalist. She completed her MA degree in Media & Journalism at Newcastle University in 2015.

She then went on to work in the radio industry at the BBC, Global, and Bauer Media. During her 10 year career she's been heard as a reporter, producer and newsreader on local and national stations, including LBC, BBC 5Live, Capital, Heart, Smooth, Greatest Hits Radio, Free Radio in the West Midlands and Black Country and Metro Radio in the North East.

She was part of the IRN News Team of the Year - for audiences over 1.5 million in 2019.

She has been a contributing editor to JesmondLocal since 2016 and was a mentor on Bauer Media's journalism mentoring programme.

In November 2023, she returned to Newcastle University as a lecturer across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, while continuing her broadcasting career as a Freelancer.