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 ''

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'', for which he was nominated for the

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in 2010. In 2011 he won The Press Awards 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''

References

External links

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