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Michael Baggs

(He/Him)
London
As seen in: G1 Globo, Revista Época, BBC, BBC Mundo, BBC News, Terra, La Nación (Argentina), El Tiempo, PinkNews, El Imparcial and
Covers:  Youth issues, LGBTQ+, mental health, entertainment, identity, news, music.
Digital journalist @thenewsagents Prev: News editor @PinkNews, Senior journalist @BBCNewsbeat He/him 🏳️‍🌈 Email: michaelbaggs@gmail.com

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Michael Baggs’s Biography

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I am an experienced journalist and editor, having spent six years working with BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat, as a reporter and then senior reporter - focused online.

In that role I’ve reported extensively on issues affecting young people - including LGBTQ+ issues, mental health, identity, entertainment and much more.

As a senior reporter, I was responsible for all the online content produced by Newsbeat’s young team - and my role also involved mentoring young talent, commissioning news and features on …

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Doctor Who: 'I wanted The Doctor to whisk me away from everything awful'

Doctor Who: 'I wanted The Doctor to whisk me away from everything awful'

A new Doctor Who podcast spin-off series is making the show more female and LGBTQ+ than ever before. Doctor W…

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Mental health in Runcorn: 'We're just two lads who want to help'

Mental health in Runcorn: 'We're just two lads who want to help'

Keelan Densmore's friend Curtis Enamu died on 7 March 2018. They both lived in Runcorn, a town of just over 6…

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Gay and Muslim: Family wanted to 'make me better'

Gay and Muslim: Family wanted to 'make me better'

When Asad came out as gay in 2020, some family members discussed taking him to see an imam to make him "bette…

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Escape from a serial killer

Escape from a serial killer

In 2002, 15-year-old Kara Chamberlain was kidnapped at gunpoint, held for 18 hours, drugged and assaulted. Af…

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'Lockdown isolation helped me come out as LGBT'

'Lockdown isolation helped me come out as LGBT'

"I'll be coming out of this pandemic as a completely different person," says 19-year-old Nathan. "If I was to…

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Online bullying: 'I've blocked nearly 10,000 abusive accounts'

Online bullying: 'I've blocked nearly 10,000 abusive accounts'

"I'd say at worst I was receiving 100 death threats a day online," Phoebe Jameson tells Radio 1 Newsbeat. "I …

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Reform’s Makerfield failure: Why Burnham’s win is such bad news for Nigel Farage

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By Michael Baggs
| thenewsagents.co.uk
Nigel Farage addressed Reform UK's Makerfield by-election loss in a video on social media, where he reprimanded voters who supported Restore Britain. Picture: Nigel Farage / X Andy Burnham triumphed in Makerfield, and is now poised to challenge Keir Starmer as PM. But after Reform UK failed to improve on its vote in 2024, should Nigel Farage also be worried about the clouds forming over his party?
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BTS hiatus 'not as severe' as One Direction

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By Michael Baggs
| BBC Verified
By Michael Baggs Newsbeat reporter Image source, Getty Images Pop fans might feel like they've been here before. The biggest boy band in the world, announcing they're going on hiatus - anyone who remembers One Direction's decision, in January 2016, might have feared the worst when BTS said it was time to take a break. But things work a little differently in the K-pop world than they do for Western bands - as entertainment journalist and BTS super-fan Lucy Ford explains.
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BTS hiatus 'not as severe' as One Direction

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By Michael Baggs, James sorry
| BBC Verified
By Michael Baggs Newsbeat reporter Image source, Getty Images Pop fans might feel like they've been here before. The biggest boy band in the world, announcing they're going on hiatus - anyone who remembers One Direction's decision, in January 2016, might have feared the worst when BTS said it was time to take a break. But things work a little differently in the K-pop world than they do for Western bands - as entertainment journalist and BTS super-fan Lucy Ford explains.
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