{{Short description|British journalist (born 1972)}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox person| | image = Amelia Gentleman at the British Library.jpg | caption = Gentleman speaks at the British Library in 2022. | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1972}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Journalist | employer = ''The Guardian'' | alma_mater = Wadham College, Oxford | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | awards = {{plain list| * 2012 Orwell Prize Winner for Journalism * 2017 Press Awards Specialist Writer of the Year * 2018 Paul Foot Award }} | father = David Gentleman | mother = Susan Evans | spouse = {{marriage|Jo Johnson|2005}}<ref name="Standard041011"/> | children = 2 | relatives = {{plain list| * Tom Gentleman (paternal grandfather) * George Ewart Evans (maternal grandfather) * Stanley Johnson (father-in-law) * Charlotte Johnson Wahl (mother-in-law) * Boris Johnson (brother-in-law) * Rachel Johnson (sister-in-law) * Carrie Symonds (sister-in-law) * Julia Johnson (half sister-in-law) }} }} '''Amelia Sophie Gentleman''' (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.<ref name="Guardian_bio">{{cite news |title=Profile: Amelia Gentleman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ameliagentleman |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=4 March 2018 |archive-date=11 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211234153/https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ameliagentleman |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Early life and education == Born in London in 1972,<ref>firefly.org.uk</ref> Gentleman is the daughter of the artist David Gentleman<ref name="Tatler">{{cite news | last = Killen | first = Mary | title = Boris Johnson's mother on her brilliant brood | url = http://www.tatler.com/article/boris-johnson-family-charlotte-johnson-wahl | work = Tatler | date = March 2015 | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-date = 19 January 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180119120328/http://www.tatler.com/article/boris-johnson-family-charlotte-johnson-wahl | url-status = live }}</ref> and his second wife Susan Evans, daughter of George Ewart Evans.<ref name="Who">{{cite book | chapter = Gentleman, David (William) | title = Who's Who 2017 | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2017 | isbn = 9780199540884| doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.16933 }}</ref>
Gentleman was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, an independent day school,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/oxford-universitys-attempts-to-tackle-discrimination-miss-the-mark/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk|title=Oxford's diversity strategy: portraits of privileged white women replace portraits of privileged white men|work=The Spectator|date=2 February 2016|accessdate=21 April 2018}}{{Dead link|date=September 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> before studying Russian and History at Wadham College, Oxford.<ref name="Standard041011">{{cite news | last = ES news | title = The Johnson supremacy | url = https://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-johnson-supremacy-6449936.html | work = London Evening Standard | date = 4 October 2011 | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180304173600/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-johnson-supremacy-6449936.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="Wadham">{{cite news | title = Changing faces: Amelia Gentleman | url = https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2016/february/changing-faces-amelia-gentleman | work = Alumni news | publisher = Wadham College, Oxford | date = 1 February 2016 | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-date = 11 April 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180411004739/http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/news/2016/february/changing-faces-amelia-gentleman | url-status = live }}</ref>
== 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''.<ref name="Orwell_1">{{cite web | title = 2010 Journalism Prize Short List: Amelia Gentleman | url = https://www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/amelia-gentleman/ | publisher = The Orwell Foundation | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180304173326/https://www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/amelia-gentleman/ | url-status = live }}</ref> Since 2009, she has been in London, writing features for ''The Guardian'', mainly looking at the impact of government policy.<ref name="Wadham"/>
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,<ref>{{cite news|last=Bush|first=Stephen|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/04/why-amber-rudd-won-t-suggest-real-solutions-worsening-windrush-scandal|title=Why Amber Rudd Won't Suggest Real Solutions to the Worsening Windrush Scandal|work=New Statesman|date=25 April 2018|accessdate=3 May 2018|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126004257/https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/04/why-amber-rudd-won-t-suggest-real-solutions-worsening-windrush-scandal|url-status=live}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|last=El-Harrak|first=Sara|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/sara-el-harrak/windrush-generation-and-long-history-of-not-being-quite-british-enough|title=The Windrush generation and the long history of not being quite 'British' enough|work=openDemocracy|date=17 April 2018|accessdate=3 May 2018|archive-date=3 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503181348/https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/sara-el-harrak/windrush-generation-and-long-history-of-not-being-quite-british-enough|url-status=live}}</ref> The scandal broke in April 2018 and within weeks led to the resignation of the Conservative Home Secretary, Amber Rudd.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2018/04/amber-alert|title=Amber Rudd's resignation throws Theresa May's government into crisis|newspaper=The Economist|date=30 April 2018|accessdate=3 May 2018|archive-date=2 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502214441/https://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2018/04/amber-alert|url-status=live}}</ref> Gentleman won the 2018 Paul Foot Award for her work on the Windrush story.<ref name="PaulFoot2018">{{cite web |title=The Paul Foot Award 2018 |url=http://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award |website=Private Eye |accessdate=20 June 2018 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304195041/http://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award |url-status=live }}</ref> She was also named as the Political Studies Association's journalist of the year for 2018, with Carole Cadwalladr,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|date=2018-11-27|title=Amelia Gentleman and Carole Cadwalladr win joint journalist of the year award|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/27/carole-cadwalladr-and-amelia-gentleman-win-joint-journalist-of-the-year-award|access-date=2020-07-07|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=25 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525010224/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/27/carole-cadwalladr-and-amelia-gentleman-win-joint-journalist-of-the-year-award|url-status=live}}</ref> and as journalist of the year in the British Journalism Awards, 2018.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/11/guardians-amelia-gentleman-named-journalist-of-the-year Amelia Gentleman named journalist of the year] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102002202/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/11/guardians-amelia-gentleman-named-journalist-of-the-year |date=2 January 2019 }} in ''The Guardian'', 11 December 2018.</ref>
== 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.<ref name="Standard041011"/><ref name="Telegraph_Rayner">{{cite news | last = Rayner | first = Gordon | title = Profile: Jo Johnson, the sensible sibling who might beat Boris to the job he covets most | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10019387/Profile-Jo-Johnson-the-sensible-sibling-who-might-beat-Boris-to-the-job-he-covets-most.html | work = The Telegraph | date = 25 April 2013 | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180304234909/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10019387/Profile-Jo-Johnson-the-sensible-sibling-who-might-beat-Boris-to-the-job-he-covets-most.html | url-status = live }}</ref>
== Awards == * 2007 Amnesty International Hong Kong Human Rights Press Awards<ref name="Orwell_1"/> * 2007 Ramnath Goenka Prize for Best Foreign Correspondent<ref name="Orwell_1"/> * 2010 Press Awards Feature Writer of the Year<ref>{{cite web | title = 2010 Press Awards Winners | url = http://pressawards.org.uk/page-view.php?pagename=2010-winners-press | publisher = The Press Awards | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172649/http://pressawards.org.uk/page-view.php?pagename=2010-winners-press | archive-date = 4 March 2018 | url-status = dead }}</ref> * 2012 Orwell Prize Winner for Journalism<ref name="Orwell_2">{{cite web | title = 2012 Journalism Prize Winner: Amelia Gentleman | url = https://www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/amelia-gentleman-3/ | publisher = The Orwell Foundation | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180304173613/https://www.orwellfoundation.com/journalist/amelia-gentleman-3/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Afghan war book wins Orwell Prize for political writing | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18172208 | work = BBC News | date = 23 May 2012 | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-date = 6 November 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201106042746/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18172208 | url-status = live }}</ref> * 2017 Press Awards Specialist Journalist of the Year<ref>{{cite web | title = 2016 Press Awards Winners | url = http://www.pressawards.org.uk/page-view.php?pagename=winners-2016 | publisher = The Press Awards | access-date = 4 March 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171025113343/http://www.pressawards.org.uk/page-view.php?pagename=winners-2016 | archive-date = 25 October 2017 | url-status=dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> * 2018 **Paul Foot Award<ref name="PaulFoot2018"/> **Political Studies Association Journalist of the Year (joint award with Carole Cadwalladr) ** Journalist of the Year, British Journalism Awards<ref>{{Cite news|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|date=2018-12-11|title=Guardian's Amelia Gentleman named journalist of the year|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/11/guardians-amelia-gentleman-named-journalist-of-the-year|access-date=2020-07-07|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=2 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102002202/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/dec/11/guardians-amelia-gentleman-named-journalist-of-the-year|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Mayhew|first=Freddy|date=2018-12-10|title=British Journalism Awards 2018: FT takes top prize, Amelia Gentleman named Journalist of the Year + full list of winners|url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/british-journalism-awards-2018-ft-takes-top-prize-amelia-gentleman-named-journalist-of-the-year-full-list-of-winners/|access-date=2020-07-07|website=Press Gazette|language=en-US|archive-date=14 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714095539/https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/british-journalism-awards-2018-ft-takes-top-prize-amelia-gentleman-named-journalist-of-the-year-full-list-of-winners/|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2019 ** The Cudlipp award for Windrush investigation<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/03/national-press-awards-guardian-and-observer-win-for-windrush-and-cambridge-analytica|title=National Press Awards: Guardian and Observer win for Windrush and Cambridge Analytica|author=Guardian staff|newspaper=The Guardian|date=3 April 2019|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=14 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714095532/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/03/national-press-awards-guardian-and-observer-win-for-windrush-and-cambridge-analytica|url-status=live}}</ref> ** The Amnesty impact award for Windrush investigation<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/amnesty-media-awards-2019-winners-announced|title=Amnesty Media Awards 2019 winners announced|publisher=Amnesty International UK|date=3 April 2019|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=3 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190903013918/https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/amnesty-media-awards-2019-winners-announced|url-status=live}}</ref> ** Print journalist of the year, London press club<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2019/may/01/guardian-and-observer-win-three-london-press-club-awards|title=Guardian and Observer win three London Press Club Awards|newspaper=The Guardian|date=1 May 2019|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803125729/https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2019/may/01/guardian-and-observer-win-three-london-press-club-awards|url-status=live}}</ref> ** Sue Lloyd Roberts media award, in association with UNHCR and Migrants Organise<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.migrantsorganise.org/?p=28097|title=Women On The Move Awards Ceremony #IWD2019|date=12 March 2019|first=Zrinka|last=Bralo|website=Migrants Organise|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=25 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925132635/https://www.migrantsorganise.org/?p=28097|url-status=live}}</ref> ** Best campaigning/investigative journalism, Drum online media awards<ref>https://www.onlinemediaawards.net {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719151052/https://www.onlinemediaawards.net/ |date=19 July 2019 }} /online-media-awards/the-drum-online-media-awards-2019#95210</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2019/may/01/guardian-wins-four-drum-online-media-awards|title=Guardian wins four Drum Online Media Awards|newspaper=The Guardian|author=GNM press office|date=1 May 2019|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190803125727/https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2019/may/01/guardian-wins-four-drum-online-media-awards|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Books===
* ''The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment'', Guardian Faber, longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/backlist/2019|title=2019|publisher=The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction|access-date=5 December 2020|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024233611/https://thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/backlist/2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Notes == {{notelist}}
== References == {{Reflist|30em}}
== External links == * [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ameliagentleman ''Guardian'' columns by Amelia Gentleman] * {{Journalisted|amelia-gentleman}}
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