# Jake Hanrahan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jake_Hanrahan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Jake_Hanrahan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Hanrahan > Source revision: 1343088976 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British journalist (born 1990)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Jake Hanrahan | image = Jake Hanrahan 2023.png | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1990|01|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | employer = H11, Popular Front | occupation = Journalist, filmmaker | title = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | website = {{URL | jakehanrahan.com | jakehanrahan.com }} | footnotes = }} '''Jake Hanrahan''' (born 23 January 1990) is a British [journalist](/source/journalist) and documentary [filmmaker](/source/Filmmaking) from the East Midlands. He reports on underground [counterculture](/source/counterculture), [armed conflict](/source/armed_conflict), and [organised crime](/source/organised_crime). 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](/source/The_Guardian), [Esquire](/source/Esquire_(magazine)), [Rolling Stone](/source/Rolling_Stone) and [Wired](/source/Wired_(magazine)). In 2014 Hanrahan was hired by [VICE News](/source/Vice_News), and later [HBO](/source/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 |archive-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814130039/https://www.defiance.news/podcast/the-rise-of-independent-journalism-jake-hanrahan |url-status=dead }} He worked as an on-screen reporter and producer, working in places such as [Syria](/source/Syria), [Iraq](/source/Iraq), [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine), [Kurdistan](/source/Kurdistan) and [Palestine](/source/Palestine_(region)). 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](/source/dark_web) networks. Hanrahan's best known work at VICE News is his embedded documentaries reporting on Kurdish rebel groups. He also reported on the [war in Donbas](/source/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)), embedding with both the [Ukrainian Ground Forces](/source/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](/source/Russian_separatist_forces_in_Donbas) in Donetsk. Hanrahan's work covering the [Kurdistan Workers' Party](/source/Kurdistan_Workers'_Party) (PKK), a [Kurd](/source/Kurd)ish militant group, in southeast [Turkey](/source/Turkey), landed him in prison. He was arrested in September 2015 in Turkey with his colleagues Philip Pendlebury and [Mohammed Rasool](/source/Mohammed_Rasool), after the three embedded with the PKK's youth wing, the [YDG-H](/source/YDG-H), who were actively fighting the [Turkish Armed Forces](/source/Turkish_Armed_Forces). Hanrahan spent two weeks in several [maximum security prison](/source/maximum_security_prison)s in Turkey, including [Diyarbakır Prison](/source/Diyarbak%C4%B1r_Prison) and [Adana](/source/Adana) [F-type prison](/source/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](/source/Fortune_(magazine))|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](/source/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](/source/Atomwaffen_Division). His reporting on this, as part of ''[Documenting Hate](/source/Documenting_Hate),'' went on to win a [duPont Award](/source/Dupont_Award) in 2020 for [Frontline PBS](/source/Frontline_(American_TV_program)) and [ProPublica](/source/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](/source/grassroots) [independent media](/source/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](/source/Columbia_Journalism_Review)|url=https://www.cjr.org/criticism/nagorno-karabakh.php|access-date=November 3, 2021}} which consists of a [podcast](/source/podcast), [documentaries](/source/Documentary_film) and a [magazine](/source/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](/source/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 ''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](/source/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 firearm](/source/3D_printed_firearm)s in [Europe](/source/Europe). In 2022, Hanrahan made a documentary embedded with anti-fascist Ukrainian [football hooligans](/source/Football_hooliganism) who'd volunteered to fight against the [Russian invasion](/source/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine) as part of the [Territorial Defense Forces](/source/Territorial_Defense_Forces_(Ukraine)). This film was screened across Europe and America via various different [football ultras](/source/Ultras) organisations. == Projects == Hanrahan regularly releases new creative projects developed under his production studio ''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](/source/iHeartRadio). They aimed to clarify the origins and nature of the political conspiracy theory [QAnon](/source/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 ''Megacorp'', an investigative series exposing the malpractices of [Amazon](/source/Amazon_(company)). In 2021, Hanrahan's first book ''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. In 2023, Hanrahan launched the podcast "Sad Oligarch", investigating the [suspicious deaths of Russian business men](/source/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022) officially classed as suicides.{{Cite web |date=2025-12-08 |title=Sad Oligarch |url=https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sad-oligarch-116754842/|access-date=2025-12-08 |website=iHeart Radio |language=en-UK}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==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 {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hanrahan, Jake}} Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:British journalists Category:British filmmakers Category:People deported from Turkey Category:Journalists imprisoned in Turkey --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Jake Hanrahan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Hanrahan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Hanrahan?action=history)). 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