Jessica Elgot
Jessica Elgot
Jessica Elgot is an award winning journalist, currently The Guardian's political reporter in the Westminster, London lobby team. [1]
Education
Elgot graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2008 with a BA in English. She went on to attend Cardiff University, where she received a PGDip in newspaper journalism.
Career
She previously a national news reporter for the Guardian, which she joined in 2015.
Prior to that, Elgot was assistant news editor of the The Huffington Post UK, and a senior reporter for the Jewish Chronicle, as well as freelancing regularly as a reporter for The Independent.
Elgot also does semi-regular commentary on news and politics programmes for the BBC, predominantly BBC Radio 5Live, and LBC.
Awards
In 2010 she won the Wyn Harness Prize for Young Journalists.