Mike Rowbottom, athletics correspondent at The Independent for 16 years, confirmed today to colleagues in Annecy, France, covering the European Cup, that he would be the sports desk staffer to take redundancy in the latest round of cuts at his newspaper. Separately, further to an announcement earlier this week, two more journalist jobs on the […]
The NUJ chapel at the Independent has protested over management plans to cut two jobs on the sports desks of the daily and the Independent on Sunday, as the papers and their website move towards a 24/7 operation. According to inside sources at The Independent, one senior sports correspondent has already accepted redundancy terms, while […]
Reports in today’s trade press suggest widescale job cuts across Newsquest regional newspapers, including the Northern Echo, and at Johnston Press’s Midlands group.
Perhaps the biggest casualty of the home nations’ football teams’ failure to qualify for the finals of Euro 2008 is the 40-year-old magazine, Shoot, which is to close at the end of the month. IPC, the magazine owners, broke the news to staff this morning. Publication will cease on June 30, barely four months after […]
As the former Sun columnist Richard Littlejohn might have said: You couldn’t make it up. Polish workers, familiar figures in recent times on British building sites or hired as low-charging dependable plumbers, are now being hired by The Sun as sports reporters. The Sun is launching special Polish language editions this weekend to coincide with […]
JONATHAN BROWN, in yesterday’s Independent, looked at the impact England and Scotland’s failures to qualify for this summer’s Euro 2008 will have on broadcasters and newspaper sports desks Many charges have been levelled against Steve McClaren, the hapless former England boss whose downcast form sheltering under his FA umbrella on the Wembley touchline last November […]
Peter Wilby, in The Guardian, asks: how can journalism truly reflect society when entry to the profession relies on wealth, geography and parents prepared to pay the wages that employers will not? In 1969, the late Nicholas Tomalin, the star foreign correspondent of his day, observed that national newspapers were “feudal fiefdoms all bound up […]
RON AITKEN, in The Independent on Sunday, interviews Sky Sport’s Jeff Stelling, pictured left, who has been acclaimed by members of the SJA as the Sports Broadcaster of the Year for a third time earlier this week For the vast majority of us, visits to Britain’s motorway service stations are undertaken in vain search of […]
Irish sports broadcaster lands coup of live rights to England’s away World Cup qualifying matches in same week it launches sports news channel Setanta Sports News, a rival to Sky Sports News and the first sports news channel to be launched in the UK in15 years, is set to go live this Thursday, November 29.
This week: England’s Rugby World Cup quarter-final victory, Australia and New Zealand’s exits, Sir Ian Botham on his knighthood, Lewis Hamilton’s driving ambition and the on-going scandal of Marion Jones. Plus Kieren Fallon – on course and in court – the Racing Post, Richard Desmond and the ever-quotable Roy Keane “We’ve stayed together as a […]
