Jonathan Liew

Liew started in 2009 on the Daily Telegraph graduate training scheme after being named the 2007 Student Columnist of the Year in The Guardian's Student Media Awards{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/02/student-media-awards-winners|title=Student Media Awards: where are the winners now?|first=Jasper|last=Jackson|work=The Guardian|date=2 September 2015|access-date=3 January 2022}} for a sports column in the student paper Injury Time, while studying at the University of Edinburgh.{{cite press release|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/nov/22/pressandpublishing|title=Student Media Awards winners|publisher=Guardian News & Media|date=22 November 2007|access-date=3 January 2022}} He became a feature writer and columnist at the Daily Telegraph, where he was named as the 2011 Sports Journalists' Association "young sports writer of the year".{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/journalism-news/liew-new-chief-sports-reporter-of-indy/|title=Liew new chief sports writer of Indy – Sports Journalists' Association|website=www.sportsjournalists.co.uk|date=27 June 2017|access-date=3 January 2022}} At the Telegraph, Liew estimated he covered at least 39 sports on five different continents and developed a fondness for rugby league.{{cite web|author=Rugby League World |url=http://www.totalrl.com/jonathan-liew-rugby-league/ |title=Strange Love: How Jonathan Liew fell for Rugby League - Total Rugby League |publisher=Totalrl.com |date=23 December 2015 |access-date=17 June 2018}}

Liew moved to The Independent in June 2017 and as part of his role Liew featured regularly as a pundit on 'The Indy Football Podcast'{{cite web|url=https://rss.acast.com/indyfootballpodcast|title=The Indy Football Podcast|website=rss.acast.com}} which was nominated for best podcast at the 2017 Football Supporters Federation awards.{{cite web|url=http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/fsf-awards-2017-shortlists-announced|title=FSF Awards 2017 shortlists announced - Football Supporters' Federation|website=www.fsf.org.uk|date=31 October 2017}} Liew has also guested on podcasts such as Second Captains{{cite web|url=http://www.secondcaptains.com/2018/06/07/episode-1181-putins-phone-in-israels-messi-situation-rose-opens-up-pogbas-last-word/|title=Episode 1181: Putin's Phone-In, Israel's Messi Situation, Rose Opens Up, Pogba's Last Word - Second Captains|date=7 June 2018}} and The Anfield Wrap.{{cite web|url=https://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2015/03/the-coach-home/|title=THE COACH HOME - The Anfield Wrap|date=13 March 2015}}

In October 2019, it was announced that Liew had joined The Guardian.{{cite press release|url=https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2019/oct/09/new-signing-for-guardian-sport-as-jonathan-liew-joins-team|title=New signing for Guardian Sport as Jonathan Liew joins team|publisher=Guardian News & Media|date=9 October 2019|access-date=3 January 2022}} after winning an essay writing competition with a piece titled "Something funny happened on the way to the stadium".

Liew has appeared on Sky Sports television programmes Sunday Supplement,{{cite web | url=https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/11093326/listen-sunday-supplement-podcast | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201173232/https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/11093326/listen-sunday-supplement-podcast | archive-date=1 December 2023 | title=LISTEN: Sunday Supplement podcast | Football News | Sky Sports }} World Cup Supplement,{{cite web|url=http://www.skysports.com/watch/tv-shows/sunday-supplement/news/11401685/england-head-to-russia-with-a-bubble-of-optimism-says-world-cup-supplement-panel|title=England head to Russia with a bubble of optimism, says World Cup Supplement panel}} and Cricket Writers on TV.{{Cite web |url=https://www.skysports.com/amp/cricket/news/12123/10935052/cricket-writers-on-tv-podcast-englands-squad-for-first-south-africa-test-discussed |title=Cricket Writers on TV podcast: England's squad for first South Africa Test discussed {{pipe}} cricket News {{pipe}} Sky Sports |access-date=17 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305100925/https://www.skysports.com/amp/cricket/news/12123/10935052/cricket-writers-on-tv-podcast-englands-squad-for-first-south-africa-test-discussed |archive-date=5 March 2019 |url-status=dead }}

Liew contributes columns to the cricket almanac Wisden{{cite web |title=Jonathan Liew - Wisden |url=https://www.wisden.com/wisden-contributors/jonathan-liew-16541 |website=Wisden}} he has written for Prospect{{cite web|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/world-cup-russia-2018-final-fifa-corruption|title=They think it's all over: could 2018 spell the beginning of the end for the World Cup?|first=Jonathan|last=Liew}} and the Belfast Telegraph.{{cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/buttler-blitz-blasts-england-to-win-and-answers-doubters-36973612.html|title=Buttler blitz blasts England to win and answers doubters|work=Belfast Telegraph|date=4 June 2018|access-date=3 January 2022}}

Liew has received praise from his peers for the way he has spoken out on diversity, equity and inclusion issues within sport.{{cite web|url=https://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/daily-telegraph-journalist-jamie-vardy-racist-sacked-leicester/amp/|title=Football (soccer) greatest goals and highlights - 101 Great Goals|date=29 November 2015|access-date=17 June 2018|archive-date=17 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617115741/https://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/daily-telegraph-journalist-jamie-vardy-racist-sacked-leicester/amp/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league/jamie-vardy-should-be-out-of-work-english-journalist-responds-to-abuse-for-calling-leicester-star-a-racist-34245310.html|title='Jamie Vardy should be out of work' - English journalist responds to abuse for calling Leicester star a racist|first=Declan|last=Whooley|work=Irish Independent|date=30 November 2015|access-date=3 January 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.eurosport.com/football/premier-league/2015-2016/gary-lineker-s-opinions-on-jamie-vardy-s-racism-are-awful-and-they-matter_sto5431620/story.shtml|title=Gary Lineker's take on Jamie Vardy's racism is bad - and it matters|first=Tom|last=Adams|publisher=Eurosport|date=12 April 2016|access-date=3 January 2022}} He is a "Raise Your Game" mentor for the Kick It Out campaign.{{cite press release|url=https://www.kickitout.org/news/mentors-announced-for-ryg18|title=Mentors announced for #RYG18|publisher=Kick It Out|date=13 April 2018|access-date=3 January 2022|archive-date=3 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103232637/https://www.kickitout.org/news/mentors-announced-for-ryg18|url-status=dead}}

On 31 October 2018, it was announced that Liew had been nominated in the "writer for the year" category at the 2018 Football Supporters Federation Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/fsf-awards-2018-shortlists-announced|title=FSF Awards 2018 shortlists announced|date=31 October 2018}}

On 31 January 2019, Liew was shortlisted for the football journalist of the year award and on 26 February 2019 won the sports columnist of the year award at the SJA awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/awards-news/british-sports-journalism-awards-2018-writing-shortlists/|title=British Sports Journalism Awards 2018: Writing shortlists – Sports Journalists' Association|date=31 January 2019 }} In September of that year, Liew spoke out on the issue of under representation of British Asians in professional football in England, stating that he believed that the issue began at grassroots level.{{Cite news |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11800977/tackling-racism-british-asians-face-more-than-just-8216one-or-two-issues8217 |title=Tackling Racism: British Asians face more than just "one or two issues" |author=Blake Welton|quote=When people talk about British Asians not being represented in football it's all these issues across the board - from grassroots to schools, scouting, clubs, academies as well as institutional.|date=2 September 2019|publisher=Sky Sports}}

Liew was shortlisted for the Writer of the Year at the Football Supporters' Association awards in 2020 and 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://thefsa.org.uk/news/vote-now-fsa-awards-shortlists-announced/|title = Vote now: FSA Awards shortlists announced|publisher=Football Supporters' Association|date = 12 February 2021|access-date=3 January 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://thefsa.org.uk/news/fsa-awards-2021-shortlists-announced/|title = FSA Awards 2021 shortlists announced|publisher=Football Supporters' Association|date = 2 November 2021|access-date=3 January 2022}} In September 2022 he was nominated for "Sports Journalist of the Year" at The Press Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://mailchi.mp/54b56a6a4bf4/press-club-award-shortlists-announced|title=The Press Awards Shortlists Announces|website=Mailchi.mp}}

In December 2020, Liew was announced as being co-writer, with fellow Guardian sports journalist Barney Ronay, of The Red Zone, a Netflix comedy series centred around the world

of football.{{Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/online/the-red-zone/|title=The Red Zone - Netflix Comedy|website=British Comedy Guide|access-date=3 January 2022}} In March 2022 the project was announced as discontinued.{{Cite web | url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/netflix/netflix-pulls-plug-on-football-comedy-the-red-zone/5168166.article | title=Netflix pulls plug on football comedy the Red Zone }}

Liew graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a degree in History.{{cite web|url=http://www.tmgacademy.co.uk/jonathan.html|title=Jonathan|website=TMG Academy|access-date=17 June 2018|archive-date=17 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617165044/http://www.tmgacademy.co.uk/jonathan.html|url-status=dead}} He appeared as a contestant on the Channel 4 television quiz show Countdown in 2013, becoming an "octochamp" by winning eight episodes in a row.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10483831/My-quest-to-become-a-Countdown-champ.html|title=My quest to become a Countdown champ|first=Jonathan|last=Liew|date=29 November 2013|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}

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