VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: As the SJA prepares for its biggest day of the year, STEVEN DOWNES explains why Britain's longest-running sports awards have m…
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Treat contacts like gold dust and they will repay you
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: Among all the varied skills which student journalists must learn, ADRIAN WARNER suggests some tried and trusted techniques rem…
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Sportswriter who added romance to his moonlighting
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: In an era of zero hours contracts and under-employment, RANDALL NORTHAM recalls sports journalists who have "multi-skilled" in…
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Sports pages deserve top marks for digging
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: A free, enterprising and inquisitive media is policing sport around the globe, writes DAVID WALKER…
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Here’s the news: the BBC wants us to share it
VIEW FROM THE PRESSBOX: BBC local news sites want to trial "content sharing", where they get to "share" newspaper content. STEVEN DOWNES suggests it c…
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Dixon provided football copy that delights the ages
Trawling through the archives provides unexpected gems, as ANTON RIPPON has discovered the long-forgotten works of a football writer from a bygone age…
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From Telex and Tandys to the all-singing laptop
You think you've got it tough with a dodgy wifi connection? Pah! Luxury... The SJA's former Treasurer, NEIL WILSON, recalls a sports writer's lot from…
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Time for journalists to signal their wifi disapproval
That master of the ballpoint, ANTON RIPPON, expresses his concern for sports reporters and photographers who are plagued with poor wifi…
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Fourth Estate looms large in battle against doping
BEN NICHOLS, the senior manager in media relations and communications at the World Anti-Doping Agency, on the growing importance of the media's covera…
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From faustball to sombo, London’s forgotten Games
Amid memories of London's winning Olympic bid, PHILIP BARKER remembers an earlier multi-sport event which lacked some of 2012's public appeal…
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