Alan White Biography

Alan White is Editor in Chief of The House magazine and its sister website PoliticsHome. Prior to this he was news editor at BuzzFeed News, where he won the Royal Television Society Award for Scoop of the Year and was shortlisted for a British Journalism Award for Investigation of the Year. His work appeared in the Observer, TLS, Private Eye and the Sunday Express. His series of articles, ‘The Shadow State', ran on the New Statesman website and were amongst its most read pieces that year.

How I Found the Agency

I had a number of proposals which I sent to various agents I found in The Writer’s Handbook. After looking at his website Andrew appealed above all the others as he seemed to have a particularly nurturing attitude towards his clients. I was therefore delighted when he called me the day after I’d sent my proposal to him with positive feedback and suggestions for another project in which I might be interested.