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Sharp Wits & Busy Pens takes a ‘sober-minded look’ at history of press gallery on Parliament Hill

Josh Wingrove talks about co-editing Sharp Wits & Busy Pens. 'It's about sharing our history, for better and for worse, at the 150th milestone. There's a lot to be proud of, and a lot to be excited for still.'

Bloomberg Hill reporter Josh Wingrove, co-editor of Sharp Wits & Busy Pens. 'You can see the same qualities in gallery journalists a century ago that I admire in colleagues these days. Rabble-rousers all.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY KATE MALLOY

May 23, 2016

OTTAWA—When Bloomberg Hill reporter Josh Wingrove volunteered to co-edit a coffee table book on the 150-year history of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, he had no idea what he'd signed up for. And he knows hard work. Probably best known when he was at The Globe and Mail as the only pr...

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