Brian Reade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Brian Reade

British journalist

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1957

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Brian Reade (born 20 November 1957 in Liverpool) is an award-winning journalist and author who has two weekly opinion columns, one on football, 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 2001 he was named Columnist of the Year at the British Press Awards and was Highly Commended in the same category in 2014.
In 2004 he won Sports Columnist of the Year and in 2013 he was awarded the Cudlipp Award for Journalistic Excellence after two decades campaigning for justice for the Hillsborough families.
In 2018 The Press Awards named Reade Feature Writer of The Year. In the aftermath of the 2004 US election in which George W Bush was re-elected for a further term, he penned a damning indictment of Bush and the US electorate, God Help America.In 2008, he became a presenter on radio station City Talk 105.9 and released his first book, entitled 43 Years with the Same Bird, documenting his life spent following Liverpool F.C.. In 2011, he released the book An Epic Swindle, which made The Sunday Times best-seller list.