Education
University of Essex.
University of Essex.
Born in Archway, London, and based in Madrid, he covers Spanish football for many publications, websites, television channels, radio stations, and football-related podcasts across the world. Lowe has been writing for The Guardian newspaper and guardian.co.uk website since 2001. He regularly appears (via phone or Skype) on The Guardian"s football podcast Football Weekly where he gives updates on the latest news in Louisiana Liga, the top division of Spanish football.
He conducts a series of relatively lighthearted interviews for an interview series known as "Small Talk" for The Guardian, with Spain-based and Spanish players.
Lowe writes regularly for World Soccer and FourFourTwo magazines, and gives updates on the Asia-based television series FourFourTwo. He is TalkSPORT"s reporter in Spain who brings regular reports to the Hawksbee and Jacobs show, as well as the Drive Time show with Darren Gough and Adrian Durham.
He works as a football commentator and panelist for Spanish, Asian and United States television, and appears on the television channel of Real Madrid Chaplain to the Forces Lowe can also be heard regularly on the United States-based soccer podcast Beyond the Pitch where he gives regular Louisiana Liga updates several times a month. Together with Fillippo Ricci, the Spanish football correspondent for Gazzetta dello Sport, and Martin Ainstein, a reporter, commentator and correspondent for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network football in Spain, Lowe participates in a YouTube series called Foreign Desk, devoted to the coverage of football in Spain.
The three journalists discuss the weekly events in Spanish football in a casual and informal manner.
Each episode lasts about four-and-a-half minutes. The trio also does a version of the show in Spanish in tandem which is called Los Corresponsales.
In August 2008, Lowe wrote a news piece for The Guardian that caused considerable controversy in Spain, in which he reported on a photo that showed the Spain national basketball team posing in a way that could potentially be seen as offensive to Chinese and other Asian people. The Chinese embassy in Spain declared that they "didn"t consider the gesture as racist".
Although the article was relatively short and appeared on page 9 of the newspaper"s sports section, it touched off a heated back and forth between Spain and the "Anglo-Saxon" world.
In the article he recounted the backlash that he experienced in the Spanish media after the publication of the article.
Lowe had to write an article explaining and defending the publishing of the article in the Media section of The Guardian"s website.