In the first week of July 2005, Britain was on tenterhooks, as decision day loomed for the cities bidding to host the 2012 Olympics; two decades on, t…
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Football’s darkest month, 40 years ago: Remembering Birmingham, Bradford and Brussels
In May 1985, three disasters at football stadiums - St Andrew's, Valley Parade, and Heysel - resulted in the deaths of nearly 100 fans, sending shockw…
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Ian Wooldridge’s pioneering TV work gave viewers a window into the world of sport
A five-time winner of the SJA Sportswriter of the Year Award, Ian Wooldridge was an industry legend who also made over 120 television documentaries, w…
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‘You’d be bonkers not to enter!’: Summaya Mughal on her SJA British Sports Journalism Awards win
Success in the Podcast category with BBC Radio Leicester's 'Brown Gal Can't Swim' was a significant career moment for Summaya Mughal; in our latest Q&…
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Celebrating 75 years of the SJA and iconic radio institution … Sports Report
By PHILIP BARKER This year marks the 75th anniversary of the foundation of what became the Sports Journalists’ Association. There had been explo…
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‘A masterpiece of sensitive broadcasting’: The Munich massacre remembered
After the 50th anniversary of the Munich massacre, SJA secretary Philip Barker recalls David Coleman’s “finest hour as a broadcaster”…
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BBC Current Affairs team looking for a sports journalist
BBC Current Affairs (This is a paid for freelancing position) The BBC Current Affairs team are looking for a Sports Journalist for a BBC Two documenta…
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Forty summers on and Arlott remains the voice of cricket
By PHILIP BARKER It was 40 summers ago on a sunlit September afternoon that the crowd at Lord’s gave a standing ovation, not for a cricketer but a c…
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TV sports presenter and reporter Steve Lee dies suddenly at the age of 68
By ANTON RIPPON Former television sports presenter Steve Lee has died suddenly at the age of 68. For a generation of viewers in the Midlands, Lee was …
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Counting the cost of coronavirus: job losses at Reach, Newsquest and BBC
The covid-19 crisis, which has already radically affected the freelance sports journalism industry, is beginning to take a heavy toll on staff jobs to…
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