Andrew Sparrow is a British journalist and member of the Lobby – the

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s with privileged access to the Members' Lobby of the

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. He writes a live blog for ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

'', for which he was nominated for the

Orwell Prize The Orwell Prize is a British prize for political writing. The Prize is awarded by The Orwell Foundation, an independent charity (Registered Charity No 1161563, formerly "The Orwell Prize") governed by a board of trustees. Four prizes are award ...

in 2010. In 2011, he won

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for Political Journalist, and was praised for his live general election blog, and in 2012 won the Editorial Intelligence Comment Award for mainstream media blogger. His career in journalism started at the ''

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'' and he then worked as a political correspondent for other newspapers including the ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Bibliography

* 2003: ''Obscure Scribblers: A History of Parliamentary Journalism'', Politico's Publishing,

References

External links

Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
– his live blog at ''The Guardian'' British male bloggers English bloggers English political journalists Living people The Guardian journalists Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-journalist-stub