Andy Brown is a freelance journalist who has been writing about the governance of sport for over 15 years.

He is the Editor of The Sports Integrity Initiative, a website dedicated to exposing corruption in sport, particularly focusing on the myth that the role of sports governance is to protect athletes.

In 2021, Andy and a team of journalists won an Impact Award from Investigative Journalism for Europe for The Devil is in The Data. The investigation exposed the role of so-called integrity companies in collecting data from sport and selling it to poorly regulated gambling operators, facilitating match-fixing. 

In 2021, Andy compiled a six part investigation into the Alex Schwazer case for Play The Game, which exposed how sporting organisations collude to win doping cases against people who have blown the whistle on corruption in anti-doping. The investigation brought international attention to the case, which later became the subject of a Netflix documentary, Running for my Truth.

Prior to editing the SII, Andy was editor of World Sports Law Report for eight years. He has also worked for the Press Association and has edited and written for numerous trade magazines, all of which are connected to the governance of sport. He has also created, chaired and spoken at numerous conferences on the business and regulation of sport, has lectured on sports governance and produced the Sports Law Show for iSportConnect TV.

Andy Brown

Basic information

Name
Andy Brown
Title
Freelance journalist
Expertise
Governance of Sport
Country
United Kingdom
City
Loughborough

Supported projects

Football’s Carbon Footprint: Burning Up the Planet

  • Environment
  • Sport
  • Transport

LONDON – This is a cross-border investigation by five journalists into how the world’s most popular sport is creating a huge carbon footprint and relying on the fossil fuel industry in a never-ending search for more money and more fans.

Play Local. Fix Global.

  • Corruption
  • Sport

OSLO - Every weekend, across, Europe, hundreds of thousands of footballers play local football for fun. 

Samindra Kunti

Football Club Cyber Slavery

  • Exploitation
  • Organised crime

EUROPE - Elite European football has been overrun with advertisements for Asian betting brands in recent years, despite many of these companies being connected to major organised crime figures.

Jack Kerr