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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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…
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2018 British Sports Journalism awards: why future of sports writing is bright
JON RYAN, former sports editor of the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph, on why sports writing has a bright future after judging entries at the SJA …
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Peter Lea, former Daily Mail sports editor, has died
Peter Lea, sports editor of the Daily Mail from 1987-1990, died on Friday at age 81. He had been ill since breaking a leg in a fall at home in Decembe…
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Sports writing, the Wooldridge Way
This week, the SJA announced the introduction of a sports journalism award for young sportswriters, to be called the Ian Wooldridge Trophy – nam…
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Ian Wooldridge has died, aged 75
Ian Wooldridge, probably the best known British sportswriter, and the first winner of the SJA’s Sports Writer of the Year award, has died. He wa…
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