Sports The SJA Journalists’ goes inside ’s Olympic Park Association page 2 SJBULLBULLETINETIN Editor:A Keir Radnedge www.sportsjournalists.co.ukwww.sportsjournalists.co.uk AUTUMN 2009 Ennis and Strauss join race for British sport’s top prizes ACTION IMAG ES IAN COLE reviews the outstanding contenders Top contenders: Ashes-winning Andrew Strauss (left), golden Jessica Ennis and for the 61st annual SJA speed Jenson Button (lower left) British Sports Awards, sponsored by Sky Bet and UK Sport, to be presented at the lunch on December 9

JESSICA ENNIS became the golden girl of British athletics with her outstanding victory in Berlin, where she won gold in the World Athletics Championships heptathlon by the grand margin of 238 points. In so doing the 23-year-old from Sheffield installed herself as favourite to win the Sportswoman of the Year award in the SJA’s end- of-year poll. Ennis’s winning points tally of 6,731 was the second-best score defeat to at Player of the Series. But the team recorded by a Britain – bettered championships, Emma Pooley Wimbledon and a straight sets could win the Team of the only by Sydney Olympic champion winning the Tour de France, and capitulation to Martin Cilic in the Year award, as Michael Vaughan’s Denise Lewis, who won the SJA swimmer Gemma Spofforth fourth round of the US Open. Ashes winners did in 2005. trophy in 1997, 1998 and 2000. winning 100 metres backstroke Phillips Idowu followed in the Whatever your opinion, it’s your Before the Berlin athletics gold at the world championships in footsteps of Jonathan Edwards – vote as an SJA member which is championships, cricketer Claire world record time. Sportsman of the Year in 1995 – by important. So who will succeed Taylor had been the favourite to More competitors joined the winning the world championship 2008 winners Chris Hoy and top the SJA poll, having been reckoning as contenders for the triple jump. It was Britain’s first Rebecca Adlington at the latest named Player of the Tournament SJA’s Sportsman of the Year during male gold at the worlds since SJA British Sports Awards when as ’s women’s team won the summer. Early favourite was Edwards in 2001. they are presented at The Brewery the World Cup. She was also the Jenson Button, after six Grands Just when it appeared Ennis and in London on December 9 first woman to feature in Wisden’s Prix victories in the first seven Idowu might be all there was to Only fully paid-up members of five Cricketers of the Year. races of the Formula One motor cheer in the summer of 2009, along the SJA can vote in our British Other notable summer racing season. came the England cricket team, Sports Awards – for the Sportsman, achievements by British women player rose regaining the Ashes with a Sportswoman and Team of the included Victoria Pendleton, to No2 in the world rankings, the momentous 197-run victory at The Year – and a voting form is Sportswoman of the Year two years best by a Briton since , Oval to take the series 2-1. Captain enclosed with this Bulletin. Make ago, retaining her sprint title at but saw his dreams of a first Grand Andrew Strauss led by example at sure you complete the form and cycling’s world track Slam disappear with a semi-final the top of the order and was named send it off immediately.

sporting stars from six decades among the Members’ GALA saving guests, from Dorothy Tyler to Dick MEMBERS will benefit from a £10 This year, tickets are on sale for £120, but Fosbury, Lloyd Honeyghan to Dames Mary reduction in the price of their tickets for the SJA members can purchase a ticket for just Peter and Kelly Holmes. 61st annual SJA British Sports Awards at £80 – a saving of £40. As a further benefit, To book tickets now, print off a form The Brewery, Chiswell Street, this year on members are entitled to buy one additional from the SJA website or contact December 9. Start2Finish is now taking guest ticket for £100 – a saving of a further Start2Finish Event Management, Unit 92 bookings for the event, and a glittering £20. Last year’s gala event to celebrate the Capital Business Centre, 22 Carlton Road, array of sporting champions has already 60th anniversary of the SJA was attended South Croydon, Surrey CR2 0BS / 020 8916 agreed to attend. by HRH The Princess Royal, and had 2237 or mailto: [email protected] Progress evident in all directions – and sports history in the Olympic making theatre is BARRY NEWCOMBE turning SJA chairman

I THOUGHT that the two tours of Olympic Park by London’s SJA members at the invitation of London 2012 were an important landmark in our appreciation of what is happening in east London. When we return next year there will be even more dream into to absorb. Because, thus far, the Olympic stadium is up but not complete and everything else is following behind - more competiton sites and the International Broadcast Centre and the Main Press Centre, all at 2012 reality different stages of construction. What we saw is already consigned to history. The words “flying up” were aimed at almost every JA members have seen the construction site on the route where everything we future… thanks to two guided saw was a statement of progress. In the midst of it tours of the burgeoning site all the ancient River Lea , once a neglected of the London 2012 waterway, flowed on, awaiting its place in Olympic Olympics. The tours followed history. aS promise made two years ago by In the meantime, the SJA will keep its members LOCOG chairman Seb Coe to keep informed of any pertinent developments-in and out members informed at every stage of of Olympic Park. development. In the immediate future, the SJA’s British Sports With the Games now approaching the Awards lunch on December 9 is fast approaching 1,000-days-to-go mark, the Olympic and as members start to think about for whom they Park looks to be developing on time will vote, there are suddenly more contenders than a though it would not be the Olympics if couple of months ago. there are not a few scare stories before the opening ceremony on July 27, 2012. Strauss steps up Members on our first tour were Andy Murray has had his best summer on the tennis driven around by coach under the circuit and promises more and the athletics world guidance of the Olympic Delivery championships showed progress for some British Authority’s Neil Walker. They were not athletes, none more so than Jessica Ennis. allowed outside the vehicle, which was The Ashes cricket series dominated the last part perhaps just as well. It had not rained in of the summer, ending with Andrew Strauss and his Stratford for days yet the makeshift team edging the Australians 2-1 in the series to win roads were awash thanks to the back the urn. No small feat, either. persistence of the bowsers – water Andrew Strauss put himself at the head of English tankers whose job is to damp down the cricket as a result but, to show you how things can dust, part of the ODA’s commitment to turn, I asked Alex Spink of the to tell preserving the environment as far as this personal story of Strauss: “He was probably possible. tired, emotional from being left out of England’s If anyone is still in doubt about who tour to Sri Lanka. But the rise of Andrew Strauss does what, Walker explained that the Future perfect? LOCOG says from discard to Ashes-winning captain can be traced ODA’s job is to build the theatre, while a signficant amount of the back to an inswinger from the Daily Mirror’s rugby LOCOG – the organising committee – construction work is running correspondent. is charged with putting on the show. ahead of schedule. “It was in the nets at Lord’s last November. What a show one hopes it will be! Strauss was doing his bit for sponsors Investec, Entering through the northern gate by centre appears well-advanced. Most along with Monty Panesar and a fistful of England Eton Manor, on Hackney Marshes, the impressive in design terms was the roof rugby players. A few of us media types were invited coach dodged the dumper trucks and of the aquatics centre, a couple of along. No recognised cricketers of course. lorries to take members close to the sweeps of steel resembling a giant “Although I once took five wickets against velodrome and BMX circuit and then wave, though the artist’s impression of Kingston Poly, Strauss had no reason to believe he the basketball arena before a sharp right the finished work suggests a UFO will would lose his off stump to my medium pace. turn through the northern goal of the be landing in east London. Then again, no one thought he would be the toast southern hockey pitch. Pride of place goes to the Olympic of the nation and shortlisted for world player of the Most of the buildings are shells, of Stadium itself. Those who travel year 10 months later. Funny old game, cricket.” course, but the vast broadcast and press regularly by train through Stratford have

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FIFA MEDIA CHANNEL WILL BE NEXT STOP EN ROUTE TO 2010 WORLD CUP FINALS England having resolved the Japan and South Korea. Those were pressure of qualifying for the World the last in which FIFA created formal, Cup finals, the stress now builds on Olympic-style main press centres as journalists and photographers over well as the international broadcast accreditation issues. centre. The finals will be attended by The MPCs enjoyed capacity use only around 4,250 print/internet journalists at the times of the Opening Games and and editors as well as 1,200 the Final. Otherwise, most journalists photographers plus a further 13,400 spent far more time than previously broadcast personnel. moving around the venues and the Accreditation for the finals draw in games. Cape Town will open immediately after Hence, for 2006, FIFA scrapped the the completion of the mainstream central media centre concept and World Cup qualifying competition in concentrated on upgrading facilities early October. Then accreditation for and services at all the stadium media the finals opens immediately after the centres in the various host cities. This draw in Cape Town on December 4. As is the model which will be put to use in before, application can be made only South Africa though an IPC is under via the FIFA media channel. construction at NASREC, within Media organisation has evolved shuttle-bus reach of Soccer City (one of significantly since the finals in 2002 in two Johannesburg venues).

seen the steel framework shooting further out of the ground week by week and now, from the outside at least, it looks almost finished. A peep between bulldozers into the arena inside confirms otherwise. Even the SJA’s host, who had not visited the Park for a week, was amazed by the rapid progress made in that short time in some areas. The Olympic Village is now seven floors high. A week previously, it had been only five- and-a-half. The whole project is a statistician’s dream. A spreadsheet entitled “The Olympic Park by Numbers” would offer from 50 or more mind-boggling facts. Just a sample: • 2,000 newts and toads relocated from the River Lea • 1.3 million tonnes of soil cleaned of industrial contamination • 65 buildings in the Olympic Village in 11 courtyard blocks • Five construction vehicles a minute entering the Park. • 10 rail lines serving the Park with 240,000 people an hour travelling in or out • The media centre is seven times the size of the Royal Festival Hall • 80,000 seats in the Stadium, built from 11,000 tonnes of steel • 4.434 workers on site – 20 per cent of them residents of one of the five host boroughs. And so it goes on. Now all that remains is to find tickets. Selling is expected to start at the beginning of 2011 when, no doubt, information on the length of the queue and the number of people in it will join the statistical mountain. IAN COLE www.sportsjournalists.co.uk Autumn 2009 3 Athletics still our Olympic No1, insists Ohuruogu S T EVE RO WE H R I S T I N E OHURUOGU had IAN cole tried to persuade members she was fit to defend her world defence of a title.” Ohuruogu C 400 metres world title, but when it returned from Beijing with came to the crunch in Berlin her Britain’s only track gold medal. injury-hampered preparations cost But she refutes the suggestion that her the crown. athletics has slipped behind Britain’s Olympic gold cycling and rowing in the nation’s medallist was the SJA’s lunch Olympic priorities. guest shortly before the athletics “Track and field is still No.1 in world championships and she most people’s eyes,” she said. reported that the hamstring injury “There is huge support for that forced her to miss build-up athletics. You only have to look at races in Paris and London was the numbers who turn up at “just a slight niggle, a bit of a Crystal Palace each year – and strain.” that augurs well for 2012.” Come the world championships, Talk of the London Olympics however, when she lined up in always brings a sparkle to lane seven of Berlin’s Olympic Ohuruogu’s eyes. The girl from Stadium, the truth was that she Newham – the face of the was the only finalist who had not successful Olympic bid four years broken 50sec for the event this ago – still marvels whenever she year and it seemed unlikely she drives past the fast-growing could repeat the heroics of Beijing Games site in Stratford. 12 months previously when her She said: “It’s really weird. It’s late surge caught American been reared from dirt. It makes me favourite Sanya Richards on the really proud of London and of my line. borough. People don’t realise This time Richards had her what it means to be hosting the revenge, with Christine trailing a most prestigious sporting event in gallant fifth. Richards, who has the world. I tell people in led the 400 metres world rankings Newham: ‘Take a drive past, walk for four years, picked up her first there even, get on your bikes.’ It’s individual global title in 49.00sec an unreal feeling.” – 0.61sec better than Ohuruogu’s Ohuruogu, with other athletes, personal best. had a hard-hat tour of the site The east Londoner’s time in the recently, standing on the finish final, 50.21, was her best of the line. season thus far, but indication that The Games are now less than the race had come too soon for three years away and she realises It’s really weird. Ohuruogu. there is a lot of hard graft ahead at Losing the title she won in the Lea Valley Centre which is her It’s been reared Osaka two years ago was a training base. from dirt. It disappointment but not a disaster, “I was fortunate to leave judging by her words at the SJA University in 2005 and go straight makes me really lunch in Fleet Street. “I don’t into full-time training knowing categorise my races like that,” she that, thanks to Lottery funding, I’d “proud of London said. “I just see it as another be OK financially and have the championship, rather than the best training facilities.”

ESPN launched its football limp link to Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti’s Broadcasting coverage under the banner: It’s great to be here. diamond formation. Identification in the case With verse” from Steven Berkoff and former had been a key issue but Scotland Yard’s request Philip Barker BBC man Ray Stubbs as presenter, it screamed not to use the footage did not reach the ears of “safe pair of hands.” A neat-looking studio and the sports department. the familiar commentator Jon Champion all The production team breathed a helped. It also tried a little pizzazz with teams huge sigh of relief when the transfer window emerging down an avenue of dancing girls, a closed. Crews filmed every Premier League ploy used by Sky Sports for the inaugural player against a “chroma key” green Premier League season back in 1992-3. background. The image of the player could then A few weeks later, ESPN expanded its be superimposed as required to give a “live portfolio with a deal to cover the group stages of action” look to team announcements. the Europa League. Most players seemed to get the idea, but The BBC got into hot water when it used Hull City’s decided to have a closed-circuit footage of a high-profile heist in a bit of fun. His efforts were a cross between

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Above: The winning team and Don Cave. Right: Phil at Muswell Hill receiving Sheldon Trophy winner David their prizes of two bottles of Jacobs with Gill Sheldon. white wine each from donor Far right: Guests’ winner Graham Morrison. From left Peter Nunn (left) receives his to right: Peter Luck, David trophy from SJA chairman Jacobs, Graham Morrison Barry Newcombe Jacobs lives up to his name to carry off Sheldon Trophy

PHOTOGRAPHER David Jacobs In third place with 32 points wine kindly donated by SJA drive on the 17th. Both Rae and proved himself a real cracker on was defending champion Patrick member and fencing expert Stern received a book of Phil the links when he compiled an Eagar while the winner of the Graham Morrison. Sheldon’s golf photographs from astonishing 43 Stableford points to visitors’ section was Peter Nunn, a Team Jacobs’ total of 78 points Gill for their efforts. win the Phil Sheldon Trophy in guest of snapper Hugh Routledge saw them home by 10 points from Consolation came for Matt the SJA’s autumn golf day at (who completed 18 holes less than Eagar, Chester Stern and Kevin Emery and brother Sam later that Muswell Hill. two months after undergoing a hip Price who won second place on a same evening when they won the Jacobs, the former proprietor of replacement). countback from Routledge, Nunn Table Football final from the Action Images picture agency, Not surprisingly with so many and Robert Halter. LondonPaper chief sports writer left the 20-strong field floundering points in the bag, Jacobs also Other prize winners on the day Matt Butler and ex-Arsenal star in his wake as he won by 10 points scooped the team prize in harness were Cave and Matt Emery Paul Merson at the West End from cricket writer Richard Rae to with Peter Luck and guest Don (second and third in the guests’ launch of the Samsung football pick up the coveted silverware Cave, and each received two section), Rae for nearest the pin at website organized by former Sun from Phil’s widow Gill. bottles of Chateau Millas dessert the 12th and Stern for the longest sports editor Paul Ridley.

Norman Wisdom and Max Wall and proved a university lecture hall during the off season). summer, after the Yorkshire club was successful hit on Soccer AM and the Sky Sports internet Test Match Special will move from the in its bid to host one of the first “neutral” Test service. Late transfer deals threw much of the Football Stand End to take up residence and, matches in England since 1912. careful visual planning into chaos as camera provided the new box has a window which can Edgbaston is another ground to redevelop its crews dashed to film the players wearing open, the team will surely be content. For those, press and broadcast facilities as part of a £30m their new colours. Happily for Sky, Bullard such as Geoffrey Boycott, who double up on upgrade. For Five Live’s Pat Murphy it will stayed put at Hull. TV and radio, it means no more racing from mean a fond farewell to the “potting shed” and The Headingley Test match (all two and a one side of the ground to the other. a move to more salubrious quarters. half days of it) had been played out against the The likes of Shane Warne, the Sky Sports An intriguing commentary box contest is set backdrop of scaffolding and cranes at the new boy, will have to seek another location for to continue, whatever the surroundings. Kirkstall Lane End. his “rest and recuperation” between “Bumble” (David Lloyd) locked horns with By next year, the Carnegie Pavilion will be commentary stints – he was regularly spotted “Aggers” (Jonathan Agnew) in the race for ready. A joint venture between the club and on the roof taking a cigarette break. The first followers on Twitter. The latter may just have other local agencies at a cost of £21m,it trial of these new media facilities will come edged ahead in the credibility stakes after his incorporates a media centre (to be used as a during the Pakistan v Australia match next interview with Lily Allen at the Oval.

www.sportsjournalists.co.uk Autumn 2009 5 Transfers moves JohnJackson Gossip The Bulletin’s inside man, Chopper, looks at the Why taking part is much movement around the more important than nation’s sports desks winning… well, almost ● The National Union of Journalists reacted with outrage in August when Express NOTHER football season announced another 70 job cuts is upon us, as the across all departments, in addition to the 80 memories of one more jobs axed at the Daily Express, Sunday splendid Ashes series Express and Daily Star last year. linger. One grandson, “It’s inconceivable that they can continue to withA genuine talent and the dream to produce competitive newspapers with the walk out one day at Wembley or level of staff that will remain if these cuts go Lord’s, asks where I went wrong. through,” said the NUJ’s Barry Fitzpatrick. Where indeed? The latest round of cuts is sure to revive When I explain that a future captain speculation that the Express group will move of England put paid to my football to direct input of stories – with reporters ambitions during 90 agonising minutes, writing into page. while my last cricket innings saw the scorer note: “Jackson c Pietrangeli b ● The future of The Observer, meanwhile, is Tiriac 8,” he is baffled. secure, for now at least. The world’s oldest My proudest school moment came Sunday was under threat of the axe with me being named for the Tollington by owners Guardian News and Media, as part Secondary Grammar School 1st XI, for strode to the crease to join our of cost-cutting at the group which made losses the prestigious fixture against North remaining opening batsman, actor of £36 million last year. London rivals Edmonton Latymer. I James Ellis who was then a household An announcement in mid-September was right-half and, of course, modelled name as Inspector Lynch in the BBC promised a “new-look” Observer which may myself on Arsenal’s then tough pair of TV series Z-Cars. undergo further integration with its daily sister Scottish internationals, Alex Forbes I calmly stroked England’s then No1 title The Guardian. Press reports suggest as and Archie Macauley. I’d show them! tennis player Mike Sangster for four, many 100 jobs could be cut as a consequence, My job was to mark the opposing and handed out the same treatment to with the NUJ threatening strike action against No.10, or inside left, and ensure his future Wimbledon finalist Tony Roche, any compulsory redundancies. known ability was stifled. I did try, of Australia. Then I spotted that a really! All I need do is record that we bowling change was bringing the ● Mihir Bose was lost 13-l and that the chap I was moustachioed Romanian rascal Ion snapped up as a weekly “rendering surplus to requirements” Tiriac into the attack. Believe me, his interviewer by the scored seven of them. ferocity made Merv Hughes look like Evening Standard less His name was Johnny Haynes who Mary Poppins. than a month after the went on to become captain of England Obviously he had no idea of the laws BBC’s first sports editor with 56 caps and the first ever of cricket. He stood as if he was left the Corporation. “We £100-a-week footballer. I never played pitching for the Bucharest Braves are absolutely delighted for our 1st XI again. against the New York Yankees, pulled that Mihir will be writing The one consolation came when I back his wrist and hurled the ball at regularly for the paper reminisced with Haynes at the 1962 me, round about elbow height. No and be bringing his incisive and brilliant World Cup in Chile and he introduced helmets in those days so my attempt at writing to the sports pages,” said the Evening me to the young England newcomer, avoiding a hospital visit saw my bat go Standard managing editor, Doug Wills. who became a great friend. His name up to shield the ball, causing it to plop was Bobby Moore. into the hands of the bemused Nicola ● Tony Roche, rugby reporter at The Sun In those far flung happy days when Pietrangeli at silly mid off. for 23 years, lost his job barely two weeks the Wimbledon tennis fortnight saw It’s pretty embarrassing walking before the start of the season. “I was called to players, journalists, officials and police back to the pavilion, having dealt well an hotel on the North Circular and told that socialising together, the middle Sunday with competent bowlers from cricket certain jobs on the paper were not selling the brought a fun cricket match – Press vs playing countries, to polite applause paper and I was no longer required,” Roche Players, with all money going to some for being caught by an Italian off the told sportsjournalists.co.uk. sporting charity. “bowling” of a Romanian. Even worse Roche, 60, had been receiving medical Needless to say, ringers in the form when a small boy asks for your treatment for blood clots since his return of show business personalities and autograph. from the Lions tour of South Africa in June. sports stars were only too happy to join So my dreams of following in the He had begun his career with Reg Hayter’s in. footsteps of heroes Billy Wright and agency and had worked for the Daily Mirror On my memorable day I batted at Denis Compton were shattered at the and Sunday Mirror and subbed at The Times five, following the dismissals of first attempt. before joining Today and later moving to slapstick actor Brian Rix and former Grandson, with Fabregas and The Sun. Aussie Test cricketer Bob Cowper. I Flintoff in his sights, beware!

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ORDERS can now be placed for the 2010-2011 into the website: http://www.aipsmedia.com/ AIPS membership cards. Membership of AIPS, index.php?page=getcard and with it the internationally recognised press Make any changes as necessary then all you card, can only be obtained by fully paid-up need to do is send SJA membership secretary members of the SJA. If you have a current AIPS Bill Colwill (31 Chesham Lane, Chalfont St card please check that your details are correct Peter, Bucks SL9 0PG) a cheque, payable to and that your photograph is up to date by going SJA, for £35 for the 2010-2011 card.

Association and . Bateson Remembering spent 34 years at the News of the World where, in his own words, he “saw off 14 editors” before spending much of the last Bill Bateson decade of his career as a consultant at the Sunday Telegraph. Roche follows the departures from the BILL BATESON, former sports editor of the Colin Gibson, former sports editor at the Sun’s sports desk of former deputy sports News of the World and a deputy chairman of Sunday Telegraph, described Bateson as editor Ted Chadwick and assistant sports the SJA, died at his home in Cornwall aged “one of the last great figures of Fleet Street.” editor Keith Nancarrow. 73. Bateson was awarded the SJA’s Doug Gibson added: “He had a great news sense Gardner Award in 1997, the Association’s and great contacts – the ultimate ● Myles Hodgson, the Press highest accolade, for his services to the professional.” Association’s cricket correspondent, was made redundant in the midst of the Ashes series. Hodgson was then hired by Andrew Flintoff to work as his official spokesman.

● Scott Manson, the former editor of lads’ mag Loaded, has been appointed editor at Ace Tennis, the bi-monthly title produced on behalf of the Lawn Tennis Association.

● The High Court ordered the wife of Lee Horton, the former sports editor of The People, to repay £128,910 she received in payments made to her through an elaborate, long-term fraud. Horton worked for the paper from 1992 to 2008, when the fraud was discovered, and according to Mr Justice Tugendhat the total of illicit payments made in that period could amount to more than £370,000. The paper sued Teresa Horton for the return of money she admitted receiving. She has been ordered that she should repay it with interest.

● Max Mosley, the departing president of motor racing’s ruling body the FIA, hosted a last supper in Monza for the Formula One correspondents, whose farewell gift was a brown leather riding whip from Swaine Adeney Brigg, whip-makers to the Queen. It was inscribed: ‘MRM. From Fleet Street’s Finest. 10.9.09’. MRM stands for Max Rufus Mosley, who accepted his present in the right spirit.

● Managing editor David Chappell is to stand down after a 22 years at The Times. Chappell will leave his role in February to work closer to his home in Brighton and have time to “pursue his travel and charitable interests,” according to editor James Harding. Chappell was appointed managing editor in December 2006, succeeding Anne Spackman, having held the post of deputy managing editor for two years. He joined The Times in 1988 as deputy chief sports sub, becoming deputy sports editor two years later and then sports editor from 1993 to 2004.

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President: Sir Michael Parkinson CBE [email protected] Chairman: Barry Newcombe [email protected] Vice-chairman: Stuart Robinson [email protected] Secretary: Steven Downes [email protected] Union training headquarters in the Vale Treasurer: Randall Northam SJA catches up of Glamorgan. Howley was an SJA [email protected] with Rob Howley lunch guest earlier this year. Membership: Bill Colwill OBE Howley said:”We have a demanding Birchen, 31 Chesham Lane, Chalfont Rob Howley, who was on the coaching start to the season in Wales with St Peter, Gerrards Cross, Bucks SL9 panels of both Wales and the British New Zealand coming to Cardiff to start OPG. [email protected] and Irish Lions this year, receives his the autumn programme before we start Macey cartoon from SJA chairman the Six Nations’ Championship away to Immediate past-chairman: Barry Newcombe at the Welsh Rugby England.” Peter Wilson [email protected] Bulletin editor: Keir Radnedge [email protected] SPORTS JOURNALISM AWARDS EXPANDS General committee Philip Barker TELEVISION AND INTERNET COVERAGE [email protected] Ben Clissitt NEW prizes will be open for sports broadcasters broadcasting colleagues’ work. “Adding the [email protected] and those working on the internet at the SJA’s new awards shows how the Association is British Sports Journalism Awards when they are continuing to keep up with new trends in the Ian Cole held in London early next year. industry,” said Barry Newcombe, the SJA [email protected] The SJA is looking to increase the number of chairman. Mary Fitzhenry internet award categories, after Internet Sports The new awards means that there will be at [email protected] Reporter of the Year was introduced two years least 25 awards handed out at the Brewery in Jim Munro ago with much success. The internet categories London on March 8, an event again sponsored [email protected] will be for writing exclusively commissioned by UK Sport and Sky Bet. for, and first published, on the web. The SJA’s British Sports Journalism Awards Ian Stafford In broadcasting, the number of awards up for has been a fixture in the calender for more than [email protected] grabs will be doubled, with categories for best 40 years. It is the biggest of its kind in the world, David Walker sports broadcaster and best sports programme in and is open to all writers, photographers, [email protected] television and in radio. Previously, TV broadcasters and cartoonists who work in British David Welch programmes and broadcasters competed for SJA sports journalism. [email protected] members’ votes against their radio colleagues, Entry forms will be available from the end of with and Radio 5 Live’s November and can be obtained from the SJA’s SportsWeek programme dominating. office or downloaded from its website, which Ex-officio SJA members will still be able to vote for will carry updates on the awards over the Keith Elliott (Careers) what they see as excellence among their coming months. [email protected] Paul Trow (Yearbook) [email protected] Dates for your diary

© 2009 Sports Journalists’ Association ■ Wednesday, December 9: SJA’s 61st Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD Annual British Sports Awards, The Brewery, Bulletin & Yearbook design Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4SD * For lunches contact Mary chilldesign.co.uk Fitzhenry (see Contacts); ■ Monday, March 8, 2010: SJA British for golf days, Paul Trow at Sports Journalism Awards, The Brewery, [email protected]

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