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Category: Beijing 2008
Tom Jenkins’ sports pictures of the year
£380m – the price of keeping the Olympic Press sweet?
£380 million is an “astonishing” amount of money, according to London Mayor Boris Johnson, but well worth it if it avoids the media att…
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London 2012: Olympic media debrief
From Jayne Pearce, London 2012 London 2012 wants your feedback on your experiences at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games. This is an important o…
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“Mile-deep” Olympics gives websites a lift
MIKE BUTCHER, in the Guardian, analyses website traffic trends in August, when coverage of the Beijing Olympics saw a different sort of record broken …
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Happy returns to less crowded MPC
JAMES TONEY reports from Beijing on the similarities – and the differences – in covering the Paralympics and the Olympics After a quick pi…
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Beijing perspective: Kevin Francis
KEVIN FRANCIS covered the Beijing Olympics for the Daily Star. Here are his thoughts on how London can learn from the 2008 Games…
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Davies resigns as Olympic media chief
Giselle Davies has tonight delivered a shock resignation as director of communications at the International Olympic Committee, according to a website …
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Beijing perspective: Matthew Brown
MATTHEW BROWN is a freelancer who has experience of working both sides of the counter in the MPCs at Olympics and major athletics championships, filin…
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Beijing perspective: Mary-Anne Toy
MARY-ANNE TOY is the China correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. Here is her assessment of the impact the Olympics have had on Beijing…
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