Are you craving the company of other freelance journalists for inspiration? Then come along to the next meeting of the freelancers at the bar on Wedne…
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Month: February 2008
Doing the right thing – but avoiding legal Chambers
Ahead of this weekend’s national indoor athletics championships in Sheffield, and the latest chapter in the Dwain Chambers controversy, at last …
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Olympics safe from prostitutes, someone says
More in the debate about journalism standards, this time from Roy Greenslade’s blog:…
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Seeking the real Eddie Waring
The 13th season of Super League and the publication of a lovingly-crafted new biography could mark a good time to reassess the legend of sports journa…
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FA sets out on charm offensive with press
Brian Barwick and his acolytes at the FA have come over all warm and friendly at the start of the new era with Fabio Capello at the helm of Englandââ…
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Super Bowl delivers record 100m US audience
Nearly 100 million people in the United States watched the Super Bowl on Sunday night, making it the second most watched TV programme in American broa…
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Munich – the journalists who died
Much has been made of the 50th anniversary of the Munich air disaster, although little has been written about the eight sports journalists who died th…
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Newcombe: Give us better access, not less
Last week, Manchester United’s media director, Phil Townsend, accused his sportswriting colleagues of spinning. Here, SJA Chairman BARRY NEWCOMB…
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European football seminar invitation
UEPS, the European sports journalists’ association, is staging a special seminar of football journalism in Lyon, France from February 10-12, and…
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Man Utd’s spin doctor accuses press of spin
Manchester United’s media director, Phil Townsend, an SJA member, has launched an extraordinary attack on his sportswriter colleagues, accusing …
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