Andrew Sparrow

Andrew Sparrow is a British journalist and member of the Lobby – the political journalists with privileged access to the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons. He writes a live blog for the Guardian's news website for which he was nominated for the Orwell Prize in 2010. In 2011 he won The Press Awards for Political Journalist, and was praised for his live general election blog,[1] and in 2012 won the Editorial Intelligence Comment Award for mainstream media blogger.[2] His career in journalism started at the South Wales Echo and he then worked as a political correspondent for other newspapers including the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph.[3][4] In 2003, Sparrow wrote Obscure Scribblers: A History of Parliamentary Reporting, the first history of the parliamentary press box written since 1913.[5][6]

Bibliography
  • 2003 Obscure Scribblers: A History of Parliamentary Journalism ISBN 978-1842750612
  • 2007 Film and Television Distribution and the Internet: A Legal Guide for the Media Industry ISBN 978-0566087363

References
  1. "Press Awards 2011: Guardian wins newspaper of the year". The Press Gazette. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  2. "The late Marie Colvin among seven Times and Sunday Times winners at Comment Awards". The Press Gazette. 18 October 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  3. Andrew Sparrow, The Orwell Foundation, 2010
  4. "Andrew Sparrow - The Guardian's 14,000 words a day man", Press Gazette, 10 May 2010
  5. "Book Reviews Pages 91-98 (doi.org/10.1080/13688800600597251)". Media History, Volume 12, 2006 Issue 1. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  6. Yasmeen Serhan (10 July 2019). "The Very British Tradition of 'Verbal Cartooning'". The Atlantic. Retrieved 29 January 2021.


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