News Archive

March 18, 2015March 24, 2015

BBC and BT Sport both to broadcast Balding show

Starting on April 2, the 12-programme series of sports chat shows will air first on BT Sport on Thursdays and then on BBC2 the following evening…

March 17, 2015March 23, 2015

Mirror merger cannot erase Express heartbreak

NORMAN GILLER is unconvinced about the appeal of Express Newspapers in a mooted deal with rivals Trinity Mirror…

March 13, 2015March 23, 2015

Media accreditation: 2015 London Marathon

The online application system for media accreditation for the 2015 Virgin Money London Marathon on April 26 is now open…

March 12, 2015March 19, 2015

Cheltenham crash raises safety issue for photographers

"The safety of our members when working at race meetings is something we will be taking a close look at, since yesterday's was not an isolated inciden…

March 11, 2015March 20, 2015

Cricket Writers help secure coverage deal with ECB

The England and Wales Cricket Board will pay for PA Sport to provide coverage of the county cricket season, for a second successive summer…

March 10, 2015March 17, 2015

Sunday Herald’s Grant gets the call to join The Times

After working at the Sunday Herald since launch in 1999, its football correspondent is moving to The Times's beefed-up Scotland operation…

March 7, 2015March 12, 2015

Lamenting the roar of the ink, the smell of the presses

The most recent circulation figures for regional papers point to only one thing, and it is not good news for ANTON RIPPON and generations of newspaper…

March 3, 2015March 7, 2015

Farewell, Mighty Mackay, the great football warrior

NORMAN GILLER pays fond tribute to a sporting hero with a trawl into his archives for an interview from 40 years ago with a footballer who won the Eng…

March 2, 2015March 3, 2015

Football and boxing writer Ken Gorman has died

During a varied and colourful career, Gorman had been a sub-editor for the Daily Express in Manchester before joining the Daily Star as a sports repor…

February 27, 2015March 23, 2015

Big names feature in Broadcast Awards short-lists

Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker, 2013 SJA Sports Broadcaster of the Year Alison Mitchell, TalkSport's Stan Collymore and BBC sports editor Dan…