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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.

References

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Citation Linktwitter.comJessica Elgot on Twitter
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Citation Linklinkedin.comJessica Elgot on LinkedIn
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Citation Linkjessicaelgotfreelance.wordpress.comPersonal website
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