Julia Langdon

Julia Mary Langdon (born 1946) is a British journalist and writer.

A political journalist since 1971, she became a lobby correspondent in 1974.[1] Leaving The Guardian in 1984, she was appointed political editor of the Daily Mirror in 1984, the first woman to hold the position on a national newspaper in the UK.[2] Later Langdon was political editor of The Sunday Telegraph.[3]

She has been a freelance writer since 1992, and has written a biography of the Labour politician Mo Mowlam (2000) and is writing a biography of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown. She has also worked as a broadcaster for the BBC.

References

  1. ↑ Julia Langdon "The lobby’s five wise monkeys", Total Politics, 17 June 2009
  2. ↑ Martin Conboy Journalism: a Critical History, London: Sage, 2004, p.147
  3. ↑ Julia Langdon "Major voice, minor key", British Journalism Review, 18:1, 2007, p13-21
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