When JOHN HOPKINS accepted his SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year Award earlier this month, he said it proved that “an old dog can learn new…
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Month: March 2009
Dear Keith: How do I become a sports journalist?
Wish I had a pound for everyone who comes to see me saying: "I'd like a job in sports journalism." Sadly, their qualifications rarely match their ambi…
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Reg Hayter’s f-f-f-f-unny old game
NORMAN GILLER remembers one of the giants of old Fleet Street, Reg Hayter, from the days of independent sports agencies when there were still telephon…
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The rate for the job (2): now work for free
Since posting our report on the “horror stories” of freelance sports reporters and photographers having their payment rates slashed, sport…
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Canoville ‘autobiography’ scores a late winner
Edward Whitaker, the Racing Post snapper who won two awards at last week’s SJA British Sports Journalism Awards, including being named Sports Ph…
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Bringing sports writing to book
This week, ROB STEEN, who lectures in sports journalism at the University of Brighton, and has also recently published Sports Journalism: A Multimedia…
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Changes at UK Sport communications dept
Partnership offers access to sport stories
Sports Features Communications, the online sports news service run out of Tampa and London by Laura Walden and SJA member Keir Radnedge, has entered i…
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Accreditation: Paralympic World Cup
Adlington dives back in: SJA lunch 25Mar
Rebecca Adlington, the first British woman to win an Olympic swimming gold medal for 48 years and the 2008 SJA Sportswoman of the Year, is the Associa…
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