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British journalist (born 1972)
Amelia Gentleman
Born 1972 (age 51–52)London, England
Alma mater
Wadham College, Oxford Occupation Journalist Employer
The Guardian Spouse
[1] Children 2 Parents Relatives Awards
2012 Orwell Prize Winner for Journalism
2017 Press Awards Specialist Writer of the Year
2018
Paul Foot Award
Amelia Sophie Gentleman
[a] (born 1972) is a British journalist. She is a reporter for
The Guardian , and won the
Paul Foot Award in 2018 for reporting the
Windrush scandal .
[2]
Early life and education
Born in London in 1972,
[3] Gentleman is the daughter of the artist
David Gentleman
[4] and his second wife Susan Evans, daughter of
George Ewart Evans .
[5]
Gentleman was educated at
St Paul's Girls' School , an independent day school,
[6] before studying Russian and History at
Wadham College, Oxford .
[1]
[7]
Career
Earlier in her career, Gentleman was the New Delhi correspondent for the
International Herald Tribune and the Paris and Moscow correspondent for
The Guardian .
[8] Since 2009, she has been in London, writing features for The Guardian , mainly looking at the impact of government policy.
[7]
For six months, Gentleman worked for The Guardian on the story of the
Windrush scandal , the deportation of people originally from British colonies in the
Caribbean , or elsewhere in the
Commonwealth ,
[9] who legally had a right of residence in the UK. According to Sara El-Harrak, writing for the
openDemocracy website, the issue had previously been neglected by the British media.
[10] The scandal broke in April 2018 and within weeks led to the resignation of the
Conservative Home Secretary,
Amber Rudd .
[11] Gentleman won the 2018
Paul Foot Award for her work on the Windrush story. She was also named as the
Political Studies Association 's journalist of the year for 2018, with
Carole Cadwalladr ,
[13] and as journalist of the year in the British Journalism Awards, 2018.
[14]
Personal life
Gentleman met
Jo Johnson , former
MP for
Orpington , while at Oxford University in 1991. They married in 2005 and live in
Camden . The couple have two children.
[1]
[15]
Awards
2007 Amnesty International Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards
[8]
2007
Ramnath Goenka Prize for Best Foreign Correspondent
[8]
2010 Press Awards Feature Writer of the Year
[16]
2012
Orwell Prize Winner for Journalism
[17]
[18]
2017 Press Awards Specialist Journalist of the Year
[19]
2018
2019
The
Cudlipp award for Windrush investigation
[22]
The Amnesty impact award for Windrush investigation
[23]
Print journalist of the year, London press club
[24]
Sue Lloyd Roberts media award, in association with UNHCR and Migrants Organise
[25]
Best campaigning/investigative journalism, Drum online media awards
[26]
[27]
Books
Notes
^ Gentleman's correct title, by marriage, is The Right Honourable Lady Johnson of Marylebone; however she does not use this title.
References
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a
b
c ES news (4 October 2011).
"The Johnson supremacy" .
London Evening Standard .
Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^
"Profile: Amelia Gentleman" .
The Guardian .
Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^ firefly.org.uk
^ Killen, Mary (March 2015).
"Boris Johnson's mother on her brilliant brood" .
Tatler .
Archived from the original on 19 January 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^ "Gentleman, David (William)". Who's Who 2017 . Oxford University Press. 2017.
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.16933 .
ISBN
9780199540884 .
^
"Oxford's diversity strategy: portraits of privileged white women replace portraits of privileged white men" . The Spectator . 2 February 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2018 . [
permanent dead link ]
^
a
b
"Changing faces: Amelia Gentleman" . Alumni news .
Wadham College, Oxford . 1 February 2016.
Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^
a
b
c
"2010 Journalism Prize Short List: Amelia Gentleman" .
The Orwell Foundation .
Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^ Bush, Stephen (25 April 2018).
"Why Amber Rudd Won't Suggest Real Solutions to the Worsening Windrush Scandal" . New Statesman .
Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 3 May 2018 .
^ El-Harrak, Sara (17 April 2018).
"The Windrush generation and the long history of not being quite 'British' enough" . openDemocracy .
Archived from the original on 3 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018 .
^
"Amber Rudd's resignation throws Theresa May's government into crisis" . The Economist . 30 April 2018.
Archived from the original on 2 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018 .
^ Rawlinson, Kevin (27 November 2018).
"Amelia Gentleman and Carole Cadwalladr win joint journalist of the year award" . The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 .
Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2020 .
^
Amelia Gentleman named journalist of the year
Archived 2 January 2019 at the
Wayback Machine in The Guardian , 11 December 2018.
^ Rayner, Gordon (25 April 2013).
"Profile: Jo Johnson, the sensible sibling who might beat Boris to the job he covets most" .
The Telegraph .
Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^
"2010 Press Awards Winners" .
The Press Awards . Archived from
the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^
"2012 Journalism Prize Winner: Amelia Gentleman" .
The Orwell Foundation .
Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^
"Afghan war book wins Orwell Prize for political writing" .
BBC News . 23 May 2012.
Archived from the original on 6 November 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^
"2016 Press Awards Winners" .
The Press Awards . Archived from
the original on 25 October 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2018 .
^ Rawlinson, Kevin (11 December 2018).
"Guardian's Amelia Gentleman named journalist of the year" . The Guardian .
ISSN
0261-3077 .
Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2020 .
^ Mayhew, Freddy (10 December 2018).
"British Journalism Awards 2018: FT takes top prize, Amelia Gentleman named Journalist of the Year + full list of winners" . Press Gazette .
Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2020 .
^ Guardian staff (3 April 2019).
"National Press Awards: Guardian and Observer win for Windrush and Cambridge Analytica" . The Guardian .
Archived from the original on 14 July 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019 .
^
"Amnesty Media Awards 2019 winners announced" . Amnesty International UK. 3 April 2019.
Archived from the original on 3 September 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019 .
^
"Guardian and Observer win three London Press Club Awards" . The Guardian . 1 May 2019.
Archived from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019 .
^ Bralo, Zrinka (12 March 2019).
"Women On The Move Awards Ceremony #IWD2019" . Migrants Organise .
Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2019 .
^
https://www.onlinemediaawards.net
Archived 19 July 2019 at the
Wayback Machine /online-media-awards/the-drum-online-media-awards-2019#95210
^ GNM press office (1 May 2019).
"Guardian wins four Drum Online Media Awards" . The Guardian .
Archived from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019 .
^
"2019" . The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 5 December 2020 .
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