JANINE SELF, the SJA’s vice-chair, reports from the second annual DWord conference The four big-hitters among the country’s sports broadca…
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Month: October 2016
Rio journalists are kept waiting for their Olympic fees
Hundreds of professional sports journalists, many of them members of the SJA, were still waiting for payment for a month or more's work in Rio for the…
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‘Scunthorpe legend’ Garcia books his place in history
In Lincolnshire, football fans remain in awe of a Spanish footballer. ERIC BROWN has found the book that explains why…
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Hart unearths treasures from Everton’s 1980s
ERIC BROWN enjoys a new book about the most glorious spell in the history of one Merseyside club…
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London conference to debate the D Word
BCOMS, the Black Collective of Media in Sport, is organising the D Word Conference next week, on diversity in sports journalism…
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The Sun signs Kidd as its new chief sports writer
Dave Kidd is moving from the Daily Mirror, in a return to where his national career started as a freelance 20 years ago…
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Rich reflections on the 10sec that ended a career
How do you ghost a book for a sporting figure who has become renowned for using racist language when they thought their TV microphone was turned off? …
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Gatward and Ogden to leave Indy sports desk
The news of the departures, coming in the week of the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Indy as a newspaper, may be regarded as something of a blo…
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Baby steps, but we’re going in the right direction
In yesterday's Times, columnist Matthew Syed, himself a six-time SJA British Sports Journalism Awards winner, criticised our Association for an appare…
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Newport’s century of survival is lovingly told
Newport County sacked their 40th manager and face a League Two survival scrap after winning just one of their first nine games. Here, ERIC BROWN takes…
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