Jake Hanrahan
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Jake Hanrahan (born 23 January 1990) is a British journalist and documentary filmmaker from the East Midlands. He reports on conflict, crime and politics. His work generally focuses on irregular warfare, organised crime and counter culture.
Hanrahan is known for his raw on-the-ground approach to reporting, gaining access to difficult stories and embedding into dangerous communities across the world.
Career
Hanrahan started his career as a self-taught freelance journalist. His work was published in The Guardian, Esquire, Rolling Stone and Wired. In 2014 Hanrahan was hired by VICE News, and later HBO.{{Cite web |date=2019-11-02 |title=Jake Hanrahan: Irregular Warfare |url=https://throomers.com/jake-hanrahan-irregular-warfare-independent-journalist/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130103313/https://throomers.com/jake-hanrahan-irregular-warfare-independent-journalist/ |archive-date=30 November 2020 |access-date=2020-05-24 |website=Throomers |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The Rise of Independent Journalism |url=https://www.defiance.news/podcast/the-rise-of-independent-journalism-jake-hanrahan |access-date=2020-05-24 |website=The Defiance Podcast |date=21 October 2019 |language=en-GB}} He worked as an on-screen reporter and producer, working in places such as Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Kurdistan and Palestine.
At VICE News, Hanrahan built a reputation as a journalist focussed on commonly unreported stories. He covered paramilitary factions, criminal gangs, environmental militancy, civil unrest and dark web networks. Hanrahan's best known work at VICE News is his embedded documentaries reporting on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwe4msjHCXs Kurdish rebel groups]. He also reported on the war in Donbas, embedding with both the Ukrainian Ground Forces{{Citation |last=VICE News |title=Inside the Front Lines Of The Ukrainian Cease-fire That Wasn't (HBO) |date=2016-10-21 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQLCGIyZyQY |accessdate=2017-11-07}} and the separatist forces in Donetsk.
Hanrahan's work covering the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish militant group, in southeast Turkey, landed him in prison. He was arrested in September 2015 in Turkey with his colleagues Philip Pendlebury and Mohammed Rasool, after the three embedded with the PKK's youth wing, the YDG-H, who were actively fighting the Turkish Armed Forces. Hanrahan spent two weeks in several maximum security prisons in Turkey, including Diyarbakır Prison and Adana F-type prison, before being deported back to the UK.{{Cite news|last=Ingram|first=Mathew|date=October 21, 2015|title=VICE Media sites go dark in support of journalist imprisoned in Turkey|work=Fortune|url=https://fortune.com/2015/10/21/vice-blackout/|access-date=November 3, 2021}}{{cite web | last= | first= | title=Vice News journalists back in UK after release from Turkish prison | website=The Guardian | date=September 6, 2015 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/06/vice-news-journalists-hanrahan-pendlebury-turkey-uk-return | accessdate=January 20, 2017}}{{cite web | last=Palmer | first=Ewan | title=Jake Hanrahan and best mate Philip Pendlebury: Vice News journalists arrested for 'aiding Isis' freed in Turkey | website=International Business Times UK | date=September 3, 2015 | url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jake-hanrahan-philip-pendlebury-vice-news-journalists-arrested-aiding-isis-freed-turkey-1518339 | accessdate=January 20, 2017}} Hanrahan called on Turkey to release translator Mohammed Rasool, who remained in detention for over 100 days after Hanrahan's release.{{Cite web|title=Northampton journalist urges Turkey to free imprisoned colleague|url=https://www.itv.com/news/central/2015-09-08/northampton-journalist-urges-turkey-to-free-imprisoned-colleague/|website=ITV News|language=en|access-date=2020-05-24}}
In 2017, Hanrahan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qjjm6Gfu7A left VICE News] due to differences with the new management's editorial direction. He worked again as a freelance journalist, investigating the neo-Nazi militant group Atomwaffen Division. His reporting on this, as part of Documenting Hate, went on to win a duPont Award in 2020 for Frontline PBS and ProPublica.{{Cite web |title=Winners of the 2020 duPont-Columbia Awards {{!}} Columbia Journalism School |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/dupont-winners |access-date=2021-07-17 |website=journalism.columbia.edu |archive-date=1 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301131217/https://journalism.columbia.edu/dupont-winners |url-status=dead }}
Popular Front
In 2018 Hanrahan founded the grassroots independent media platform Popular Front,{{Cite web|date=2018-08-22|title=Interview: Popular Front's Jake Hanrahan promises all the details of modern war|url=https://www.thedefensepost.com/2018/08/22/interview-jake-hanrahan-popular-front-modern-warfare/|access-date=2020-06-08|website=The Defense Post|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|last=Markosian|first=Lilit|date=September 7, 2021|title=The Story of Nagorno-Karabakh Is Incomplete|work=Columbia Journalism Review|url=https://www.cjr.org/criticism/nagorno-karabakh.php|access-date=November 3, 2021}} which consists of a podcast, documentaries and a magazine. Popular Front has so far rejected all corporate investment and advertising. The company is funded solely via Patreon and merchandise sales. Popular Front has a youth audience with millions of followers across social media. In a 2022 Complex magazine profile on Popular Front, Hanrahan was named "one of the most important voices in war and conflict reporting".{{cite web |last=Onapa |first=Emmanuel |title=How Jake Hanrahan Became One Of The Most Important Voices In War & Conflict Reporting |url=https://www.complex.com/life/jake-hanrahan-popular-front-interview |publisher=Complex |date=November 17, 2022}}
Popular Front is best known for its documentary work, showing under-reported war and conflict stories across the world. Their 2020 documentary [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlB2QV5wVxg Plastic Defence] has amassed more than 3.5 million views on YouTube and attracted much media attention.{{Cite web |last=Schneider |first=Ari |date=2021-02-16 |title=3D-Printed Guns Are Getting More Capable and Accessible |url=https://slate.com/technology/2021/02/3d-printed-semi-automatic-rifle-fgc-9.html |access-date=2021-04-24 |website=Slate Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Simpson |first=John |title=Militant network pushes homemade assault rifles |newspaper=The Times |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/militant-network-pushes-homemade-assault-rifles-clmmx2lmt |access-date=2021-04-24 |issn=0140-0460}} The film shows unique access to the man who invented secret 3D printed firearms in Europe. In 2022, Hanrahan made a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsodbPkjO3c documentary] embedded with anti-fascist Ukrainian football hooligans who'd volunteered to fight against the Russian invasion as part of the Territorial Defense Forces. This film was screened across Europe and America via various different football ultras organisations.
Projects
Hanrahan regularly releases new creative projects developed under his production studio [https://h11.tv/ H11]. Hanrahan and his team produced the hit podcast series Q-Clearance: The Hunt for QAnon{{Cite web|date=2020-10-06|title=Q-Clearance: The Hunt for QAnon|url=https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vSFNXMTExMjA5ODE2NA?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwj4vLHT0oztAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAw|access-date=2020-11-18|website=Google Podcasts|language=en-UK}} in 2020 for iHeartRadio. They aimed to clarify the origins and nature of the political conspiracy theory QAnon.{{Cite web|last=Joho|first=Jess|title=The 18 best tech podcasts (that aren't 'Reply All')|url=https://mashable.com/article/best-tech-podcasts-reply-all-alternatives/|access-date=2021-04-24|website=Mashable|language=en}} The following year Hanrahan launched [https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-megacorp-89680740/ Megacorp], an investigative series exposing the malpractices of Amazon.
In 2021, Hanrahan's first book [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B092PG6K13/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=jake+hanrahan&qid=1618683890&sr=8-1 Gargoyle] was published. It's a compilation of his written work, "collecting his on-the-ground reporting from all the wrong crowds." It sold over 3000 copies in the first months it was on sale.
References
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External links
- [http://www.jakehanrahan.com/ Official website]
- {{IMDb name|6953766}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2b-h1nbBck BBC News report about Turkey arrest]
- [http://www.twitter.com/jake_hanrahan Hanrahan's verified Twitter account]
- [https://www.popularfront.co/ Popular Front website]
- [https://thefix.media/2023/4/14/popular-front-a-guide-to-independent-war-reporting Popular Front's profile], The Fix Media
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