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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A golden year of cricket, stand-up comic Gary Neville and a first for CNN and talkSPORT…
FAYE CARRUTHERS, chair of broadcast judges, reports on the British Sports Journalism Awards It was a year of new awards, new winners and a year where …
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New Sunday Supplement host Jacqui Oatley shrugs off social media trolls
Jacqui Oatley, who describes her appointment as new host of Sky Sports Sunday Supplement as ‘surreal’, has shrugged off the social media t…
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Sky Sports News supremo Cairns calls it a day after 30 years
Andy Cairns, the man behind the Sky Sports News phenomenon, has decided to call it a day after three decades with the broadcaster. Cairns, who is also…
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A double act, some new names and a tragic accident shape broadcast awards
A double act, some new names, and a tragic accident shaped the broadcast section of the 2018 SJA British Sports Journalism Awards, sponsored by Canon …
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The changing face of TV coverage and the Ashes
As BT Sport prepare to broadcast the Ashes series live for the first time, PHILIP BARKER looks back at how TV coverage of the great cricketing duel be…
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Part of the team: Being LGBT in sports media
Jon Holmes, home page editor of Sky Sports Digital and SJA member, organised an informal meeting of LGBT sports media professionals on Monday night wi…
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Alive and kicking: The Premier League at 25
Year zero, the dawning of a new era, call it what you will, it is a quarter of a century since the Premier League burst into life, revolutionising foo…
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Ethics and sports journalism on ICE agenda
Sports journalism: ethical vacuum or ethical minefield? That is the question at this year’s annual conference at the Institute of Communication …
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BSkyB pioneer Vic Wakeling dies at 73
By Anton Rippon Vic Wakeling, the man behind the sporting broadcast revolution, has died at the age of 73. A former regional sportswriter, Wakeling be…
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