The ECB Media Operations Team is pleased to announce that the application process for 2013 ECB Media Accreditation is now open…
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SWA founder member John Dennis has died
John Dennis, a founder member of the Sports Writers' Association, has died. He was 86…
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Magic of the microphone with the golden rings
BBC Radio's JONATHAN OVEREND, the SJA's sports broadcaster of 2010, on how he and his colleagues enjoy the best job in the world …
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Sun and Sportsbeat offer Olympic journalism opening
The Sun has teamed up with Wimbledon-based press agency Sportsbeat to offer a 40-week scholarship worth £7,500 to a resident of one of London’s six…
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Brodie, a giant of Northern Ireland sports writing
Another giant of sports writing in this country, and of this Association since the days when it was still the SWA, has died: Malcolm Brodie, a leading…
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Kevin Moseley and Dave Horridge: a double blow
Kevin Moseley and Dave Horridge, two leading football writers, have both died in the space of a few days…
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Frank Keating: funeral arrangements
The funeral of Frank Keating will be on February 7 at Belmont Abbey…
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2012 sports broadcasting: who gets your vote?
Voting is now open for SJA members to select their TV and radio sports programmes of 2012 and the sports broadcaster of the year. PHILIP BARKER outlin…
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Arlott, Botham, Giller pay tribute to M’Dear Frank
"Few modern sports writers have brought alive sporting people, past and present, champions and also-rans, as Keating did. Few have written with such …
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Frank Keating, a prince among sports writers
Frank Keating had his own unique style; his writing just fizzed with analogies and adjectives, some of them in the dictionary. It was at once evocativ…
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