In the early 1970s, he spent five years in Munich working for the US State Department at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which broadcast news behind the Iron Curtain.
During the other two years, he wrote 'Sydney Diary', a pithy collection of gossip and stories about people making headlines and others vainly trying to keep their names out of them.
As a freelance based on the New South Wales north coast, Andrews wrote extensively on a wide variety of subjects for a whole spectrum of newspapers and magazines.
For almost 30 years he was also a regular columnist in Turf Monthly magazine and won several awards for his newspaper coverage of horse racing.
[1] He was commissioned to write Tappy, the memoirs of racecaller John Tapp, Quest for Gold, which chronicled the efforts of a group of Aussie medal hopes at the 2000 Olympics, The Fabulous Fairstar, a nostalgic history of the famous cruise liner which sailed into the sunset after 35 years of plying the sea lanes of the world, Bondi Icebergs Club – An Australian Icon, and Kostya – From Russia With Gloves, the ghosted pictorial autobiography of world boxing champion Kostya Tszyu, which made the top five in the non-fiction best-selling lists.