Chris Dabbs

Voiceover & Broadcast Journalist
Times Radio & BBC newsreader. Voiceover artist. Podcasting expert. PhD student researching audio journalism,University lecturer

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It’s always nice to be at The News Building and at Times Radio on news reading shifts at Christmas!
@NewsUK @TimesRadio

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I’m super happy to be back teaching #Journalism at the University of Brighton #UOB for the 2025 semester.
I’m lecturing #NCTJ accredited sessions on Converging Journalism, Multimedia Journalism and Digital Journalism to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Love it!

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Day one of my PhD at @uniofbrighton 🎓
Researching how hyperlocal audio & video journalism — including AI-generated podcasts — can make local news sustainable again.
Powered by tech, guided by journalists.
Let’s see where this goes. 🎙️🌦️

#PhDLife #AudioJournalism

[BBC Sport Kent @BBCKentSport]

FOOTBALL: Listen to full commentary of @SittingbourneFC’s quarter-final in the #FATrophy against Aldershot from 12:30 with @MEvinylrevival & @BoughtonAndrew7 via the below link. 👇 #BBCFootball

https://t.co/QaKbLgqxCq

[Chris Dabbs @chrisdabbs]

I’m super happy to be back teaching #Journalism at the University of Brighton #UOB for the 2025 semester.
I’m lecturing #NCTJ accredited sessions on Converging Journalism, Multimedia Journalism and Digital Journalism to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Love it!

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Early #newsreading radio shift at #BBC #kent

[Philip Harrison @philharrison77]

Lovely morning out in the Domaine Evremond vineyard near Chilham hearing how @HatchMansfield have teamed up with Tattinger to make English sparkling wine 🥂

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As usual, it’s a delight to be in Tunbridge Wells this morning for a #BBC Radio Kent news reading shift, bringing local news to #Kent

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https://t.co/77C8HtFhij

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🌟 Excited to share that I'm now a Part-Time Lecturer at the University of Brighton! I’ll be helping both BA and MA Journalism students to master podcasting, audio production and convergent, online, and TV digital journalism. It’s a privilege to help future journalists. 🎓🎧📺

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Great day interviewing #AstroscaleUK
and the #europeanspaceagency for an upcoming BBC Radio 4 programme. #loveyourjob #spacedebris #space

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M74 Phantom Galaxy - 32 MILLION light years away and it would take us around 37,200 years to travel ONE light year.
Pic taken 28 Nov 2023...from our back garden 🔭

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The Horsehead Nebula.
Photo taken in my garden using a ZWO Seestar S50 telescope.
It would take 6,109,500 years to travel there at the fastest speed one of our space probes has ever reached!

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Gotta love an overnight newsreader shift at Times Radio 😀

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I quite like this #Astrophotography on a budget hobby!

Here’s the first of many new pics coming your way!

Get in touch and let me know what #deepskyobject #galaxy #nebula I should feature next.

I’m thinking the #horseheadnebula next!

#moon #astronomy #solarsystem

[DOMINIC KING @DomKingLive]

The Wake Up Call - while @annacookson is away I got dancing for my final cover show! #strictly2023 #mystrictlyshirt!!!

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#Saturn
We took this on Saturday night…886 million miles away!
I love this #astrophotography hobby!

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#jupiter
We took this on Saturday night…484 million miles away!
I love this #astrophotography hobby!

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Visiting Parliament today.
Lunch on the terrace overlooking the Thames.

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And…it’s always nice to bring local and international news to BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey listeners!