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18 Jun
2013

Leek Post & Times: sports content creator

You will be responsible for gathering content and producing pages for the newspaper, as well as contributing material to our website. The role will also involve actively engaging with our audience via social networking

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15 Jun
2013

Anti-doping agency appoints Nichols as media manager

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Nichols has worked for some of the world’s leading sports governing bodies and competitions including the ATP, Olympic Council of Asia, Wimbledon, British F1 Grand Prix, NBA Europe, Emirates Dubai Rugby Sevens and the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race

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14 Jun
2013

“Big names” could be among latest Times job cuts

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A leading sports writer or columnist could be among the 20 compulsory redundancies at The Times announced this week

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10 Jun
2013

Manchester United names its new head of media

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Sternberg, a former Fox and Universal Sports executive, is overseeing MUTV and the club’s websites, mobile, social and print media

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9 Jun
2013

The Echo of Hillsborough shows local papers’ value

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ANTON RIPPON on the vindication for a campaigning local newspaper, and a vindication for local newspapers generally

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18 May
2013

Maidenhead Advertiser: sports reporter/sub-editor

Based in Maidenhead, the role involves covering football, rugby, hockey, cricket and a wide range of sports from grassroots to elite level. This is not a nine to five job

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17 May
2013

The day Fenella’s mystery admirer went for a Burton

Fenella Fielding, British movie star of the 1960s, and apparently well-regarded in Burton newspaper offices

Life on local newspapers, especially in district offices, used to be conducted at a different pace. And sometimes from a different planet, as ANTON RIPPON just about remembers

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17 May
2013

Men’s Fitness: features writer

You’ll be responsible for writing features and regulars in the magazine; tracking the latest trends and research; sourcing and conducting interviews, from Hollywood stars to Olympians; and writing copy for MF’s online and digital platforms

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13 May
2013

Henley Standard: freelance sports sub

You should have relevant experience of page layout and copy editing and, preferably, of Adobe InDesign

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9 May
2013

Midlands football writer Ian Willars has died

Ian Willars: or Two Jackets, to his Birmingham Mail colleagues

Ian Willars, for many years among the best-known sports journalists on the Midlands football and cricket circuits, has died after a brief illness. He was 75. Willars died on Tuesday, May 7, in Sutton Good Hope Hospital. He leaves a wife, Sandra, three sons, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Willars had worked in Fleet Street, [...]

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