Brian Reade is a British journalist and author who writes a weekly opinion column for the Daily Mirror. He was born in Wavertree and grew up in Huyton.
He began his journalism career working on the Reading Evening Post in 1980 and became a columnist on the Liverpool Echo in 1990 before moving to the Mirror in 1994.
In 2023, Sir James Dyson lost a libel claim against the Daily Mirror over an article in which Reade called him "the vacuum-cleaner tycoon who championed Vote Leave due to the economic opportunities it would bring to British industry before moving his global head office to Singapore."[2]
In 2011, he released a book investigating corruption in football, An Epic Swindle.[3] In 2021 Reade wrote a third book Diamonds In The Mud about working-class heroes. In 2024 he penned his debut novel Sick Mick.[4]
Awards
2000: The British Press Awards Columnist of the Year[5]
2003: The Sports Journalists' Association Columnist of the Year[6]
2012: The British Press Awards Cudlipp Award for Journalistic Excellence (following his two-decade fight for justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster.)[7]
2014: The British Press Awards Highly Commended Columnist of the Year[5]
2017: Society of Editors National Press Awards Feature Writer of the Year[8]
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