The meetings of the International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen were subject to unprecedented security on Friday, ahead of the vote for the 2016 Games host city, because of the presence of Barack Obama. But why, asks the press corps in the Danish capital, is media access being denied in the IOC hotel and other areas [...]
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VDS, the German sports journalists’ association, is to establish a special fund for the family of Wolfgang Jost, the 57-year old football journalist who died earlier this week following a road accident while he was in South Africa covering the Confederations Cup.
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1 May
2009
2009
Chaos at AIPS Congress over voting
Proceedings at the 72nd annual congress of AIPS, the international sports press association, ground to a halt for nearly two hours today after delegates at the meeting in Milan complained about the voting procedures for the vacant vice-president places and for eight places on the executive committee.
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28 Nov
2008
2008
World Cup chiefs reconsider web charges
By Keir Radnedge South Africa’s 2010 World Cup organisers have promised to resolve concerns over internet access for the media at the finals. The promise to find a media internet solution “long before the Confederations Cup†next summer was issued by Dr Danny Jordaan, chief executive of SALOC, the local organising committee.
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8 Jun
2008
2008
Myers’ 40 Olympic years are honoured
Lord Coe, chairman of London 2012′s organising committee and LOCOG Director of Communications, Jackie Brock-Doyle, stopped off at a surprise party in Athens last week to mark Morley Myers’ 40th anniversary of his association with Olympic Games.
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26 May
2008
2008
Beijing facilities ready for media invasion
From Barry Newcombe, Beijing On the final day of the AIPS Congress in Beijing, delegates were presented with a fascinating contrast which underlined what working at the Olympic Games in China in August is about. In the morning we visited the Olympic Stadium and the Main Press Centre and then, via a halt for a [...]
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25 May
2008
2008
AIPS election: Newcombe misses out
Barry Newcombe, chairman of the SJA, was unsuccessful in the elections to the executive committee to the AIPS – the international sports journalists’ association – staged at its Congress held in Beijing this week.
Continue reading →By Morley Myers, Secretary General, UEPS Heraklion, Crete will be the venue for the 2nd UEPS Journalists’ School from October 28 to November 1. In 2007 more than 240 sports journalists from 31 European countries attended the inaugural event and UEPS – the European sports press union – hopes to exceed that total in 2008.
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18 Apr
2008
2008
European body agrees move to Brussels
From Barry Newcombe, Klagenfurt, Austria The European Union of Sports Press (UEPS) moved another step towards introducing new statutes and establishing its headquarters in Brussels. Delegates meeting here this week approved draft proposals to submit the statutes for informal approval by the Belgian authorities. Formal approval will take six months to a year and will [...]
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24 Mar
2008
2008
Toronto Sun’s George Gross dies
George Gross, the Toronto Sun‘s first sports editor and a major figure in Canadian sports journalism, died early Friday at his Toronto home. He was 85.
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