Daily Mail Archives - Sports Journalists' Association

June 20, 2024

Peter Moss, 1929-2024: ‘A giant inspiration to colleagues younger and older’

Former SJA committee member Tom Clarke shares an obituary of Peter Moss, who has died at the age of 95; Jeff Powell, Colin Hart and Peter Jackson also…

September 17, 2020April 30, 2023

Former Mail head of sport and ‘Football Rascal’ Cooney loses cancer fight

Bryan Cooney, former Daily Mail head of sport, has died after a battle with prostate cancer. The Scot, who had also been chief sports writer for the D…

July 18, 2020September 4, 2020

How Ian Wooldridge upset Prince Philip and the Kremlin 40 years ago

The Moscow Olympic Games opened on July 19, 1980. Four decades on, PHILIP BARKER tells the story of the part that Ian Wooldridge played as politics th…

February 26, 2020April 30, 2023

Does gender breakthrough at writing awards mean changing of the guard?

Will 2019 go down as a blip or does the fact that four key writing prizes at the British Sports Journalism Awards, were won by women for the first tim…

August 14, 2019April 30, 2023

RIP: Joe Rigby ‘the perfect sports sub’

By IAN COLE JOE RIGBY, who has died suddenly, was one of those journalists without whom no sports department could function properly. Solid, dependabl…

July 25, 2019August 14, 2019

All change at Daily Mail, including new chief sports reporter Matt Hughes

All change at the Daily Mail as head of sport Marc Padgett makes a series of new appointments. The imminent arrival of The Athletic has had a knock-on…

February 26, 2019April 30, 2023

Media release: Winners at the British Sports Journalism awards

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Monday February 25 2019 Paul Hayward of The Telegraph, Mark Thompson of Getty Images and ITV Sport’s Ed Chamberlin and Fra…

October 18, 2018April 30, 2023

Former ITV head of sport Farmer dies after cancer battle

UPDATED WITH FUNERAL DETAILS: Monday, November 5, 12.30pm. Streetly Crematorium, 296 Little Hardwick Road, Streetly, …

June 23, 2018April 30, 2023

Student May lands dream job with FC Barcelona

From Chester University to the Camp Nou… student Sam May has landed dream job as digital media editor at FC Barcelona. May, who has just complet…

May 8, 2018July 4, 2018

Details of memorial service for Terry O’Connor

A memorial service for Terry O’Connor will be held at St Stephen’s Church, College, Road, South Dulwich at 1.30pm on July 4. Following the ser…