Draft:Oli Dugmore

Oli Dugmore is a journalist, and head of News and Politics at the JOE website.

Career
Dugmore was a writer and assistant editor of the youth media publication The Tab during his tenure in the early 2010s.

Since 2018, has been head of news and politics at the Joe website and the associated PoliticsJOE YouTube channel. He has interviewed many prominent people, including Jeremy Corbyn and Ian Hislop. Prior to Joe, he was a content editor at LBC, and a sub-editor at the sports team for The Sunday Times.

Since July 2023, Dugmore has a regular weekend chat radio slot presenting at LBC. He had previously appeared as a panellist on Iain Dale's LBC show.

Dugmore was nominated for 2020 Journalist of the Year by the UK The Drum in their Online Media Awards. He was on the finalists list for the 2023 Up-and-Coming Broadcast Journalist of the Year award with Pagefield.

In May 2022, Dugmore attracted controversy with an egg-throwing stand next to the stature of former PM Margaret Thatcher.

Dugmore appeared several times as a panellist on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, including on 19 March 2023 discussing media influence on youth and other matters, and on 16 July.

Dugmore is the interviewer on the Joe podcast Unfiltered, succeeding James O'Brien.

In April 2024, Dugmore spoke at the Oxford Union in favour of the proposition "populism is a threat to democracy", alongside Nancy Pelosi. Shortly prior to that, he spoke at Cambridge Union closing out the opposition to "Modern Technology Will Destroy Liberal Democracy".

Personal life
Dugmore attended Warwick School. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Politics from Cardiff University in 2015. He is married to Jess Lathan.