Lavelle started his career as a trainee journalist with Granada Television,[1] before joining ITV Tyne Tees.
From 2006, he worked as Assistant Programme Editor for two years, as part of the launch-team for the Al Jazeera English news service bureau in London.
In 2012, he returned to Al Jazeera as a Europe-based Correspondent covering stories across the continent, including the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Cyprus, and Israel & Palestine.
In the autumn of 2014, he was featured in the strand 'Al Jazeera Correspondent', with his self-produced documentary, 'My Digital Addiction'.
[3] Lavelle later moved to the United States where he became an LA Correspondent before relocating to Miami where he has extensively covered the US election, 2024 student protests, natural disasters and more for Al Jazeera.