Patrick Wintour



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Full name: Patrick Wintour

Area of interest: Politics

Journals/Organisation: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:politics.editor@guardian.co.uk politics.editor@guardian.co.uk]

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Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/patrickwintour

Blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt

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Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/patrickwintour



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Education: Oxford University: History

Career: The Guardian: labour correspondent, 1983 (covered the miners' strike 1984/1985); member of the political team, 1988; chief political correspondent, 1988; The Observer: political editor, 1996; The Guardian: chief political correspondent, 1999/2006, Political Editor, 2006-

Current position/role: Political editor


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Awards/Honours: British Press Awards: political journalist of the year, 2007

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Other: Son of Fleet Street editor Charles Wintour, brother of Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue; married to commentator Rachel Sylvester



Books & Debate:

 * Why industry matters (1978) OCLC 16486632
 * Eddie Shah and the newspaper revolution (1986) OCLC 16868272 (with David Goodhart)
 * A briefer's guide to team briefing (1990) OCLC 22708248
 * Labour rebuilt: the new model party (1990) OCLC 24011068 (with Colin Hughes) - about Neil Kinnock's modernisation of the Labour Party

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Remit/Info: Political analysis

Section: Politics

Role: Political Editor

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Email: [mailto:politics.editor@guardianun.co.uk politics.editor@guardian.co.uk]

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Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/patrickwintour

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 * Guardian.co / Patrick Wintour (archive)



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 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Wintour
 * Hack watch - The security services and Whitehall have long kept dossiers on certain journalists but, characteristically, New Labour has widened the focus - as an internal cabinet memo obtained by the Guardian shows - Seumas Milne, Kevin Maguire, The Guardian, 22nd January 2001