This tribute was written by four-time SJA award-winner Stephen Jones for the Sunday Times and is reproduced here with their permission Nick Mason,&nbs…
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Month: December 2019
View from the pressbox: When the interviewer becomes the interviewee in changing times
By ANTON RIPPON It is getting on for a year since the newly-appointed editor gave me the news: after 20 years, my freelance contract with the Derby Te…
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Success of Women’s World Cup means more football journalists looking ahead to 2023 edition
By ANTON RIPPON The 2019 press pack who followed England women to the FIFA World Cup provided a watershed moment, both in terms of national print cove…
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The club that Jack built – how Blackburn won the title thanks to rich super fan
A new book which traces Jack Walker’s galvanising effect on modest second division outfit Blackburn Rovers in the early 1990s is reviewed by ERI…
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Oxford Mail sports editor Mark Edwards leaves after 21 years
Award-winning sports editor Mark Edwards leaves the Oxford Mail today after almost 21 years. Only last month an Edwards-led special project won the su…
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Singing winger Grainger shared billing with the Beatles and played against Brazil
By Eric Brown Colin Grainger shared dressing rooms with Stanley Matthews and the Beatles, scored on his England debut against Brazil and counted film …
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Birmingham 2022 thumbs up with promise of ‘fantastic’ Commonwealth Games
By Anton Rippon SJA members looking to cover the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be pleased to know that the Commonwealth Games Federation Coordination C…
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Juliet Slot one of three new faces on the British Olympic Association Board
By Anton Rippon Juliet Slot, the wife of SJA multiple award winner Owen Slot, is one of three new faces on the British Olympic Association Board. Juli…
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Hamilton wins £30,000 William Hill prize for record third time
By Anton Rippon Judges were ‘bowled over’ by Duncan Hamilton’s biography of Neville Cardus that has won for the freelance sportswriter a record-…
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News Associates trainees get the stars talking at British Sports Awards
The SJA was delighted to make use of the efficient services of News Associates students at the British Sports Awards 2019, sponsored by the National L…
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