Jim Pickard | |
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Occupation | Journalist |
Employer | Financial Times |
Jim Pickard is a British journalist and the current chief political correspondent at the Financial Times . [1] Pickard joined the FT in 1999 and became chief political correspondent for the paper in 2013. [2] [3]
Pickard coined the political term 'motorway man' in the run up to the 2010 general election. [4]
In 2019 he was part of a FT team which won "Political Journalism" at the British Journalism Awards of the Press Gazette for a series about Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party. [5]
In March 2021 he was involved in the Financial Times' reporting of David Cameron's lobbying for Greensill Capital. [6]
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