Colin Brown (journalist and author)

Colin Brown is an author and political journalist.

As a journalist, he covered breaking news in Downing Street and Westminster for over 30 years.

He was political correspondent for The Guardian between 1979 and 1986, then held the same position at The Independent from 1986-2000. He then took up the role of Political Editor at The Independent on Sunday from 2002-4 before being made Political Editor at The Sunday Telegraph,[1] and then Deputy Political Editor of The Independent between 2004 and 2008. He now freelances for The Independent and The Week, and lives in London. www.colinbrownjournalist.co.uk

Brown is the author of four books: Whitehall - The Street That Shaped a Nation (Simon & Schuster), Real Britannia - Our Ten Proudest Years, the Glory and the Spin (Oneworld Publications), Fighting Talk - the biography of John Prescott (Simon & Schuster) and Prescott (Politico's).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Hodgson, Jessica. "Sunday Telegraph poaches Brown in Westminster reshuffle" The Guardian, London, 8 May 2002. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  2. ↑ Hurst, Christopher. "Whitehall by Colin Brown" The Independent, London, 11 June 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2013.


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