Staff Profile

Ian Wylie has been a journalist for almost 30 years and is currently a freelance writer, editor and podcaster for the Financial Times, Guardian, Monocle, Management Today, Sage Gateshead and others. For 16 years he was a staff writer, feature writer and editor at The Guardian newspaper. He also runs the JesmondLocal news project with Newcastle University student volunteers and previously published and edited quarterly magazine The Northern Correspondent.

Ian launched and runs the Civic Journalism Lab, a collaboration between Newcastle University and BBC North East & Cumbria, which gives journalists in the region an opportunity to meet, learn, collaborate and innovate together. 

Born and schooled in Northern Ireland, he has a degree in Economics from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and teaches on Newcastle University's postgraduate journalism programmes: multimedia journalism, newspaper design and sub-editing, and media law. He has previously taught online journalism at Sunderland University. Ian is married with three children and a large labradoodle. More information at ianwylie.org

MCH8059 Media and Law

MCH8061 Professional Sub-editing and Design

MCH8069 Multimedia Journalism: Principles and Practice