The Sports Journalists’ Association, in partnership with News Associates and Sportsbeat, are delighted to announce the launch of a journalism divers…
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Calling all golfers: the SJA Phil Sheldon golf day is back
The SJA will once again host a golf day in memory of the eminent and much-missed photographer Phil Sheldon at Muswell Hill GC in north London. This an…
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Report a Cup final? No, you’re a woman – the amazing tale of Mary Raine in 1969
Mary Raine was a pioneering football journalist who made history by becoming the first woman to be heard on Sports Report. PHILIP BARKER tells her ext…
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Longmore was Sindy’s ‘burnished one, our glittering prize’
From Neil Morton, former Sports Editor, Independent on Sunday Andrew Longmore’s six years as chief sports writer for the Independent On Sunday …
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Longmore: integrity to his work, elegance to his writing, byline a hallmark of truth
By Malcolm Folley, Chief Sports Reporter, Mail on Sunday (1992-2014) Andrew Longmore called just over a fortnight ago. In his usual breezy manner, he …
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Award-winning journalist Longmore dies at 65
SJA award-winner Andrew Longmore, former chief sportswriter of the Independent on Sunday and for many years senior sportswriter of The Sunday Times un…
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Derby Telegraph columnist Rippon axed after 20 years
LONG-serving SJA member and award-winning newspaper columnist Anton Rippon has been dropped by the paper for which he has written for the past 20 year…
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ICC offer workshops and $500 prize to young cricket writers
The Cricket Writers Club have been tasked by the ICC to deliver a series of workshops for aspiring young cricket writers during the forthcoming World …
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The Big Match: hail the televised football revolution
Half a century ago The Big Match was just completing its first season. PHILIP BARKER recalls how John Bromley and Jimmy Hill revolutionised televised …
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