With bans on local papers increasingly being used as the option of first resort by football clubs at the merest suggestion of an offence, there is a g…
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Swindon shuts out local press with own ‘platform’
"Articles so chemically sterile they ought to be used for cleaning urinals": ANTON RIPPON on the future of media coverage of Swindon Town…
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What’s in a name? Washington faces re-branding
ANTON RIPPON reports on how a leading American sports franchise name is being forced to enter the 21st century…
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Dedicated football reporter is killed in M1 crash
He covered non-League football on a freelance basis for Radio Sheffield for 24 years and also provided online commentaries for Doncaster Rovers’ off…
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Sentinel signs up commercial backers for tour coverage
The Stoke Sentinel has signed-on seven businesses to pay for a reporter and a photographer to cover the Potters’ pre-season trips to Singapore and G…
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“Sir Duke” strikes all the right notes for a real champ
NORMAN GILLER has rediscovered his campaigning zeal, this time for an overdue acknowledgement of one of this country's finest boxers…
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Relaunched Echo tries to stop readers feeling Blues
ANTON RIPPON on the response from Merseyside's city newspaper to reader complaints about its football coverage…
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Saddle-up for young journalists’ meeting on July 23
The SJA young journalists' networking drinks continue with a summer event, generously supported by the Jockey Club, in Kentish Town, London, on July 2…
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Former Telegraph writer Norton dies after fall
The sports journalist who broke the news that Ron Atkinson was making racist remarks when he thought he was off-air during a television football comme…
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Bosch drills into Mossad’s Barcelona operation
ANTON RIPPON on reports in Spain that have sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive …
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