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Former Reuters sports editor Steve Parry dies
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted August 7 2008, 12.00pm
Steve Parry, former Reuters sports editor, has died today aged 64, Reuters has reported. Parry, who worked for the media group for 34 years, was sports editor from 1982 until his retirement in 2000. He had been suffering from a respiratory illness and died in hospital. Parry joined Reuters’ London sports desk in 1966 and was appointed sports [...] (more)

Sports reporter punches above his weight
From Hold the Front Page. Posted August 7 2008, 6.40am
Matt Westby finishes two months of training with a scored fight (more)

Daily Mail sports writer Paul Hayward joins The Guardian
From Press Gazette. Posted August 7 2008, 12.00am
Guardian News & Media has appointed the Daily Mail's chief sports writer Paul Hayward to work as a senior sports writer across The Guardian, The Observer and Guardian.co.uk. (more)

Weekend presenter Mike Mendoza leaves Talksport
From Media Guardian. Posted August 6 2008, 6.24am
TalkSport has parted company with its weekend overnight presenter Mike Mendoza after four years with the station. By John Plunkett (more)

Pitney Bowes MapInfo announces advanced routing capability for OS MasterMapŽ Integrated Transport Network?
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted July 29 2008, 2.34pm
Conversion of ITN delivers centralised Route Planning and Drivetimes for Crime Analysis, Command & Control, Risk and Contingency Management Planning Windsor, 29 July 2008 ? Pitney Bowes MapInfo, the leading global provider of location intelligence solutions, today announces the official release of its unique new routing capabilities. The new capabilities deliver unparalleled benefits by converting the OS MasterMap Integrated Transport Network (ITN) layer to server-based and desktop routing solutions. Having been selected to deliver a... (more)

Legendary sports journalist Bob Crampsey dies aged 78
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 28 2008, 2.30pm
Former Brain of Britain and Mastermind contestant loses battle with Parkinson's disease (more)

Editor?s Pick. BBC Sport ?Olympic Games?
From UTalk Marketing. Posted July 28 2008, 10.00am
Produced by Damon Albarn (more)

Sport on TV: Oar-inspiring king of pain almost sinks without trace
From The Independent. Posted July 27 2008, 12.00am
Sir Steve Redgrave is right at the top of anyone's list of British sporting heroes. But if you had to undertake a regime of gruelling physical conditioning, the five-time Olympic gold medallist is the last man you would want to see standing by the rowing machine. More early grave than Redgrave. (more)

Talk show host Jeremy Kyle to present weekly TalkSport show
From Media Guardian. Posted July 25 2008, 10.36am
TalkSport has hired ITV presenter Jeremy Kyle to host a weekly sports show. By Mark Sweney (more)

Rajars: TalkSport fails to score from Euro 2008
From Press Gazette. Posted July 24 2008, 12.00am
A full round-up of the latest radio listening figures, released this morning by Rajar. (more)

Sky Sports ?Epic England? 48 sheet
From UTalk Marketing. Posted July 23 2008, 3.26pm
New multimedia campaign (more)

SportsXchange confirms FTA, Sky EPG slot
From Digital Spy. Posted July 22 2008, 5.16pm
SportsXchange is confirmed as a free to air channel with Sky EPG slot 456. (more)

Murray Morse named as new Sport editor-in-chief
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 22 2008, 11.20am
Former Cambridge Evening News editor takes top job with national titles (more)

Daily Sport Appointment for Morse
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted July 22 2008, 8.00am
A former news editor of the Daily Record and Edinburgh Evening News, and newsdesk executive at the Press and Journal, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport newspapers. Murray Morse succeeds Barry McIlheney, who has been promoted to group editorial director at... (more)

Daily Sport Barry McIlheney editor-in-chief leaves role
From Media Guardian. Posted July 22 2008, 6.15am
Barry McIlheney has left his post as editor-in-chief of Sport Media Group, publisher of the Daily and Sunday Sport newspapers, after just six months in charge. By Oliver Luft (more)

BBC Management statement: BBC Trust finding and conclusion ? fair trading and editorial appeal on Sports Personality Of The Year 2007
From BBC Press Ofice. Posted July 21 2008, 4.15pm
The BBC management today issued a press statement following publication of the BBC Trust finding and conclusion on a fair trading and editorial appeal on BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2007. (more)

Jeremy Kyle joins talkSPORT
From Radio Today. Posted July 21 2008, 3.56pm
Jezza is returning to his radio roots by joining talkSPORT to host a weekly sports show. The Jeremy Kyle Sunday Sports show will air each Sunday between 12pm and 2pm from September 21st. (more)

BBC Sports Personality of the Year stripped of sponsorship
From Media Guardian. Posted July 21 2008, 12.02pm
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year show will no longer carry a sponsor after a damning report found the 'editorial integrity' of the corporation had been 'compromised' by a commercial tie-in. By Mark Sweney (more)

BBC Sports Personality of the Year show stripped of sponsorship
From Media Guardian. Posted July 21 2008, 12.02pm
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year show will no longer carry a sponsor after a damning report found the editorial integrity of the corporation had been compromised by a commercial tie-in. By Mark Sweney (more)

If it moves it matters for transport expert Alan
From Hold the Front Page. Posted July 21 2008, 6.40am
New departure for former MEN specialist (more)

Former Cambridge Evening News editor is new Sport editor-in-chief
From Press Gazette. Posted July 21 2008, 12.00am
Daily Sport and Sunday Sport editor-in-chief Barry McIlheney is to step down from his role seven months after joining the re-launched red-top and is to be replaced by Murray Morse, the former editor of the Cambridge Evening News. (more)

Sport on TV: Want to make history? A silly name won't help
From The Independent. Posted July 20 2008, 12.00am
So Great Britain and Ireland may come top of the European medals table when it comes to lack of holidays, high retirement age and low life expectancy – not to mention traditional success in the fields of teenage pregnancy, obesity, binge drinking and drug taking. But if 'Olympic Dreams' (BBC1, Tuesday) come true, we will also excel in chronic parenting and absurd children's names. (more)

Telegent enables free mobile access to TV broadcasts of summer sporting events for millions of viewers
From Press Release, via webitpr. Posted July 16 2008, 10.09am
71% of Chinese consumers surveyed interested in watching this summer?s sports competitions on free-to-air mobile TV phones SHANGHAI, CHINA ? July 16, 2008 ? Millions of viewers worldwide will stay abreast of live sports coverage this summer with TV handsets that incorporate Telegent?s free-to-air mobile TV technology.  According to SINO-MR, a leading China market research firm, 71% of China consumers surveyed were interested in watching the 2008 Beijing games on a TV phone, with 41%... (more)

S4C to give English commentary option on sports coverage
From Media Guardian. Posted July 15 2008, 4.45pm
S4C is to provide English commentary on its domestic football and rugby coverage to supplement its main Welsh language coverage. By Ben Dowell (more)

Eurosport HD launches on Sky
From Digital Spy. Posted July 15 2008, 2.36pm
A HD simulcast of Eurosport International formally launches as part of the Sky HD package today. (more)

BT turns to Setanta Sports in broadband battle
From Daily Telegraph. Posted July 14 2008, 2.47pm
BT is hoping to gain ground in the broadband battle and score new customers by giving away subscriptions to digital television channel Setanta Sports 1 with its BT Vision package deals. (more)

Eurosport HD begins UK testing
From Digital Spy. Posted July 14 2008, 12.24pm
Eurosport HD begins testing on a Sky HD transponder. (more)

Sport on TV: Timely salute for rights and wrongs of protest
From The Independent. Posted July 13 2008, 12.00am
The Chinese authorities must be quaking in their jackboots. The Olympics do tend to get a little political, and in Beijing there are no plans to mark the 40th anniversary of the "black power" civil rights protest by Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the Mexico City Games. The hosts won't be looking to commemorate any remarkable campaigns to champion the cause of the oppressed. (more)

Sport on TV: Harsh lessons at Bath's school of hard knocks
From The Independent. Posted June 29 2008, 12.00am
They say you should never go back. Not least because you might not recognise anyone. This is especially so at top-flight sports clubs. 'What Happened Next: The Rugby Club' (BBC4, Tuesday) looked back at David Stafford's series about Bath's first season as a professional outfit. Few if any of the original protagonists are still there. After the decision to go pro, most of them found themselves heading for an early bath. (more)

Talksport online magazine won't ape Monkey
From Press Gazette. Posted June 24 2008, 12.00am
Talksport’s new online-only digital magazine will be "completely different" to Monkey, despite being headed up by the former publisher of the Dennis' digital lads magazine James Mallinson. (more)

European broadcasters threaten to cut sports coverage over doping
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 22 2008, 12.13pm
European broadcasters are ready to cut down their coverage of sports events if the federations do not offer maximum guarantees in the fight against doping, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said on Friday. The EBU said it would present contracts to the sports ruling bodies asking them to comply with the rules of the World Anti-Doping [...] (more)

Sport on TV: Old Tricky still has plenty to teach the new dogs
From The Independent. Posted June 22 2008, 12.00am
"Tricky" Russell, the former impresario of the Highgate greyhound track in South Yorkshire, reflects on the decline in interest in the sport. "There's no new blood coming through," he said on 'The Flapping Track' (BBC4, Thursday). "Young lads are more into cars now." They go faster, and they don't poo on the concourse so that Tricky has to get his shovel out. (more)

Peter Mitchell has been promoted to sports editor at the Sunday Telegraph
From Media Guardian. Posted June 20 2008, 6.12am
The Sunday Telegraph has promoted Peter Mitchell to sports editor, part of a raft of changes that will include a new sports blog on Telegraph.co.uk. By Stephen Brook (more)

Telegraph adds new ‘irreverent’ sports blog
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 19 2008, 2.25pm
Telegraph.co.uk is launching a new sports blog, which will cast an irreverent eye over the days sporting stories. The blog will be led by Andrew Baker, sports feature writer for the site and paper, and will feature alongside 14 other sports blogs on the site. (more)

Grieg Grabs Sports Award
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted June 16 2008, 7.42am
A football writer with The Herald newspaper is the latest recipient of a prize recognising the best young Scottish sports journalist. Martin Grieg is the winner of the Jim Rodger Memorial Award, which is open to sports journalists aged under 35 working in the Scottish regional press. The... (more)

Greig Grabs Sports Award
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted June 16 2008, 7.42am
A football writer with The Herald newspaper is the latest recipient of a prize recognising the best young Scottish sports journalist. Martin Greig is the winner of the Jim Rodger Memorial Award, which is open to sports journalists aged under 35 working in the Scottish regional press. The... (more)

Sport on TV: Now it is hit or miss for counties' bean-counters chase the dream ticket
From The Independent. Posted June 15 2008, 12.00am
A bunch of prima donnas obsessed by money, trying desperately to catch the eye of the scouts. Throwing themselves around, backchatting match officials, employing the full gamut of histrionics. Yes, our county cricketers are getting almost as bad as the footballing elite at Euro 2008. (more)

Young sports writer lifts trophy for his work
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 13 2008, 9.40am
Jim Rodger Memorial Award for the best young sports journalist in Scotland is handed out (more)

Telegraph goes Polish for sports fans
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted June 12 2008, 2.24pm
Telegraph.co.uk has published a Polish version of a report on Poland's progress in Euro 2008 - thanks to Jon Buscall for the email. The article by Kat Mochlinski is available in both English and Polish with a link between the articles. With The Sun running a print edition in Polish for Euro 2008 and having already trialled [...] (more)

PA to retain PA Sport following review of business
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 12 2008, 9.30am
Plus: SoE in talks on televising court, training centres on alert for inspections - and more news in brief (more)

GCap signs Sportsmedia deal
From Radio Today. Posted June 12 2008, 8.29am
GCap Media’s Gold Radio Network has signed a two year content deal with Sportsmedia Broadcasting and sister financial news company Businessmedia, to provide bespoke sports news and finance bulletins. (more)

Sky Sports tees up cricket and golf push
From Media Guardian. Posted June 11 2008, 6.11am
Sky Sports is to launch a TV promo featuring a mash-up of cricket and golf footage to promote its sports coverage. By Mark Sweney (more)

PA Group takes PA Sport division off the market
From Press Gazette. Posted June 10 2008, 12.00am
PA Group, parent company of the Press Association, has announced it will not be selling its PA Sport division following a three month review. (more)

Sport Media falls 10% as newspaper relaunch flops
From Financial Times. Posted June 6 2008, 6.09pm
Efforts to raise the tone of the UK's most raunchy newspaper have flopped (more)

Sport Media Group buys Front publisher for ÂŁ265,000
From Press Gazette. Posted June 6 2008, 12.00am
The publisher of lads' mag Front, Flip Media, has been sold to Daily Sport publisher Sport Media Group for ÂŁ265,000. (more)

Daily Sport owner remains confident despite 11 per cent circulation drop
From Press Gazette. Posted June 6 2008, 12.00am
The relaunched Daily Sport is expected to post a 11 per cent plunge in circulation when the latest ABC figures for the month of May are released this afternoon. (more)

BBC Sport and Aardman animate Euro 2008 titles
From Media Guardian. Posted June 4 2008, 1.39pm
See stills from the title sequence for the BBC’s Euro 2008, an animation that was produced in collaboration with Aardman Animations (more)

Setanta Sports scoops for more Asian cricket
From Biz Asia. Posted June 4 2008, 11.34am
Setanta Sports has acquired the rights to show the Asia Cup cricket tournament which runs from 24th June to 6th July. (more)

Danny Kelly joins TalkSport as host of evening show
From Media Guardian. Posted June 2 2008, 8.35am
TalkSport has signed Danny Baker's former sparring partner Danny Kelly to co-host a new evening show. By John Plunkett (more)

Telegraph sports reporter's fighting feature
From Hold the Front Page. Posted June 2 2008, 5.20am
Eight weeks of blood, sweat and tears lay ahead as sports hack enters the boxing ring (more)

Sport on TV: The weakest of all links, the worst of all penalties
From The Independent. Posted June 1 2008, 12.00am
There are few advantages to England not qualifying for a major footballing tournament. One of them is that we won't have to endure the awful spectacle of the camp's followers making a disgrace of themselves abroad, drinking far too much, exposing their flesh and flouting native sensitivities. Not the hooligans, but the players' wives and girlfriends. (more)

BT Vision to add sports, games, ad apps
From Digital Spy. Posted May 30 2008, 2.43pm
New interactive applications covering sports, gaming and lifestyle are planned for BT Vision. (more)

Football pundit Stan Collymore switches from 5 Live to TalkSport
From Media Guardian. Posted May 29 2008, 10.49am
TalkSport has signed BBC Radio 5 Live football pundit Stan Collymore to host his own nightly show on the station. By John Plunkett (more)

TalkSport magazine appoints editorial team
From Media Guardian. Posted May 28 2008, 4.37pm
TalkSport has hired more journalists to work on the launch of its new digital magazine, from titles including Nuts and the Mail on Sunday's Live. By Stephen Brook (more)

Sport on TV: Singing the blues at midnight in Moscow
From The Independent. Posted May 25 2008, 12.00am
A long drawn-out final in an Eastern European capital, a television audience of many millions, concerns over foreign officials. No wonder Andy Abraham, the UK entrant, was apprehensive going into last night's Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade. (more)

Little interest in operating a sports TV channel in Azerbaijan
From Media Network Weblog. Posted May 20 2008, 4.27pm
Azerbaijan National Television & Radio Council will prolong the tender period for opening a sports channel in Azerbaijan. “The situation is not an optimistic one. Almost nobody has joined the tender. Therefore, the tender period will be prolonged for another month,” Chairman of the Television & Radio Council Nushiravan Maharramli said to Trend News. According to [...] (more)

ITV Sport targets heartbroken England fans
From Media Guardian. Posted May 20 2008, 12.22pm
ITV Sport's Euro 2008 promo features a downcast England fan moping to the sounds of Foreigner's 1980s hit I Want To Know What Love Is. By Mark Sweney (more)

Sport on TV: War and Peace: usual rules in the Broad Acres
From The Independent. Posted May 18 2008, 12.00am
There cannot have been many greater characters in British sport than Brian Clough. So much so that a mythology has engulfed his memory. There have now been at least seven biographies of the self-proclaimed "Ol' Big 'Ead", the latest, 'Provided You Don't Kiss Me' by Duncan Hamilton, winning the 2007 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. (more)

TalkSport boosts UTV revenue
From Media Guardian. Posted May 16 2008, 11.30am
Belfast-based media group Ulster Television has reported like-for-like group revenue rise of 4% for the four months to April 30. By Mark Sweney (more)

talkSPORT in demand
From Radio Today. Posted May 16 2008, 9.26am
UTV announced have announced higher than expected trading for talkSPORT. The national AM station has increased revenue by 19% over the four months from January to April this year. (more)

Olympic chance for budding young sports reporter
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 14 2008, 6.10am
Newsquest runs once-in-a-lifetime competition, NUJ receives police apology and more news in brief (more)

talkSPORT to launch magazine
From Radio Today. Posted May 13 2008, 6.42pm
Keen on extending the talkSPORT brand beyond radio, UTV is about to launch a digital magazine to compliment their national all-talk sports radio station. (more)

Sports website entrepreneurs aim to find the next David Beckham
From Daily Telegraph. Posted May 11 2008, 12.01am
The Sunday Telegraph has teamed up with younoodle.com, the social media site for start-ups, to throw a spotlight on some of the next generation of entrepreneurs emerging from Britain's universities (more)

Guardian News & Media integrates news, business and sport departments
From Media Guardian. Posted May 9 2008, 11.20am
Guardian News & Media has unveiled details of its plans to integrate the newsrooms of the Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk. By Stephen Brook (more)

Single news, business and sport team set to work across Guardian and Observer
From Press Gazette. Posted May 9 2008, 12.00am
Guardian News and Media has today released plans of how it will merge staff into a single team working across The Guardian, The Observer and guardian.co.uk. (more)

Spleak apps deliver politics and sport news to social networks
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 8 2008, 3.00pm
Spleak Media Network has launched two new applications for delivering short-form sport and political news to social networks. SportSpleak and VoteSpleak will serve up news headlines and gossip to users on social networks and instant messaging services, who can then comment on the updates to their friends. Both will function along the same lines as CelebSpleak, which [...] (more)

Kelvin MacKenzie blasts TalkSport over sacking of James Whale
From Media Guardian. Posted May 8 2008, 11.46am
Former TalkSport boss Kelvin MacKenzie has branded the station's decision to sack James Whale as 'ridiculous' and 'cowardly'. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Journalists warn of Euro Parliament sport rights threat
From Press Gazette. Posted May 8 2008, 12.00am
Journalists and press freedom campaigners are calling on the European Parliament to scrap legislation that would curb news organisations' rights to report from sporting events. (more)

Readers signing up in droves to newspaper's sports text service
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 7 2008, 6.10am
Service differentiates through providing breaking news only (more)

TalkSport presenter James Whale sacked for 'vote Boris' plea
From Media Guardian. Posted May 6 2008, 9.21am
TalkSport presenter James Whale has been sacked after breaching broadcasting regulations by urging listeners to vote for Boris Johnson. By John Plunkett (more)

James Whale departs talkSPORT
From Radio Today. Posted May 5 2008, 10.03pm
Late night broadcasting legend James Whale has parted company with UTV Radio's national station talkSPORT after 13 years on-air. (more)

Sport on TV: The Republic still carries torch for class struggle
From The Independent. Posted May 4 2008, 12.00am
In 'Chinese School' (BBC4, Tuesday) we are told that "sports days really are like a small Olympic Games". With excitement building as the Beijing Games draw near – and nary a thought for Tibet or Darfur or torch relays – a thousand athletes take part in the three-day event at Haiyang Middle School in the rural province of Anhui, and there's even a proper opening ceremony. But the obvious difference from the real thing is the school motto, "Be honest". In the Olympic village, such principles won't catch on. (more)

Guardian wins top sports award with multimedia coverage
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted May 2 2008, 2.02pm
The Guardian scooped the coveted sports coverage of the year award at last night's Sports Industry Awards. Other contenders for the award included the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and The Times, with the Guardian chosen for displaying 'synergy between multi-platforms.' Highlights were said to include online and print coverage of Steve McClaren's sacking, with rolling news, comment [...] (more)

Five to revive 'Superstars' sports comp
From Digital Spy. Posted April 30 2008, 1.03pm
Sir Steve Redgrave, Dame Kelly Holmes and others are to lead a Five revival of Superstars. (more)

Sikhs vent anger at Daily Sport headline
From Biz Asia. Posted April 27 2008, 12.50am
Shock and disgust. That is the overall feeling of the Sikh community after coming across the Daily Sport newspaper last Thursday. (more)

Sport on TV: Smarter than a 10-year-old? Not these parents
From The Independent. Posted April 27 2008, 12.00am
Forget Riise and Ronaldo, Thursday night brought far more shame to hang one's head in than the previous two nights put together. I blame the parents. If you thought the ones who stand on football touchlines berating their children were bad, you should have seen them at ringside in 'Strictly Baby Fight Club' watching their five-year-olds beating six bells out of each other. Actually, you're better off not seeing it. (more)

Sports journalism standard is 'abysmal'
From Press Gazette. Posted April 25 2008, 12.00am
The veteran investigative reporter behind a long-running probe into alleged corruption at Fifa has launched an attack on what he called the "abysmal" standard of British sports journalism. (more)

Andrew Jennings: Sports journalism is 'abysmal'
From Press Gazette. Posted April 25 2008, 12.00am
The veteran investigative reporter behind a long-running probe into alleged corruption at Fifa has launched an attack on what he called the "abysmal" standard of British sports journalism. (more)

Local UK newspaper to use Twitter for live sport reporting
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 24 2008, 11.00pm
Wrexham-based newspaper The Evening Leader to experiment with the micro-blogging tool for live football match reports (more)

Daily Sport's move upmarket fails to impress
From The Times. Posted April 21 2008, 11.40pm
The <i>Daily Sport</i> paid a high price yesterday for its plans to move upmarket when a warning of weakening advertising prompted shares in Sport Media Group, the newspaper's parent company, to plunge by more than a quarter. (more)

Guardian.co.uk relaunches sports section
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 21 2008, 11.00pm
Guardian.co.uk revamps sport and football channels as next stage of complete site redesign (more)

Sunday Sport relaunch fails to lift shares
From Financial Times. Posted April 21 2008, 4.39pm
A ÂŁ600,000 relaunch of The Daily Sport and The Sunday Sport failed to buoy shares in Sport Media Group (more)

My Media: Steve Gaisford, Setanta Sports and ITV news presenter
From Media Guardian. Posted April 20 2008, 11.03pm
Steve Gaisford, presenter, Setanta Sports and ITV news (more)

Sport on TV: Man with golden helmet heads the rush for cash
From The Independent. Posted April 20 2008, 12.00am
In 1969, Apollo XI put man on the moon. In 2008, Brendon McCullum put a cricket ball on it. When the Kolkata Knight Riders emerged on to the Indian Premier League launchpad in Bangalore (Setanta, Friday) in their black and gold-lamé spacesuits, it looked as if the world of cricket had indeed changed, as we had been promised in the long countdown. But we were travelling back in time – to the Seventies. On Planet Bollywood, the stars looked like Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. And the outfits had nothing on West Indies' pink velour numbers in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket. (more)

Sport on TV: Hysteria in the wisteria, summer solace in Alliss
From The Independent. Posted April 13 2008, 12.00am
It's the surest indication that summer is finally here. The shadows lengthen on the closely cropped sward amid the vibrant azaleas – thousands of miles away in Augusta. The sight of those idyllic fairways is enough to make anyone turn away in disgust from their own unkempt lawns and wallow in a late-night dreamland, where mowers drive themselves and sprinklers dance while servants bring you cocktails on the terrace. (more)

David Bond named Telegraph sports editor by new boy Mark Skipworth
From Media Guardian. Posted April 8 2008, 12.25pm
Mark Skipworth arrived at the Telegraph Media Group today as executive editor sport - and immediately promoted David Bond to the post of Daily Telegraph sports editor. By Stephen Brook (more)

Sports and news reporting of Beijing games must be kept separate, says editor of BBC's interactive Olympic coverage
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 7 2008, 11.00pm
BBC Sport will experiment with maps, blogging and mobile video, helping develop multi-platform coverage for the London Olympics in 2012, says Claire Stocks (more)

Sports and news reporting of Beijing Olympics must be kept separate, says BBC editor
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted April 7 2008, 11.00pm
BBC Sport will experiment with maps, blogging and mobile video in its coverage of the London Olympics in 2012, says Claire Stocks (more)

Setanta Sports ends sale talks
From Digital Spy. Posted April 7 2008, 2.26pm
A sale of Setanta Sports is off the agenda after potential buyers declined its Ł1bn asking price. (more)

Motor sport: Mosley stands by his story after further details emerge
From Media Guardian. Posted April 7 2008, 1.01pm
Motor sport: The Max Mosley scandal continues after the News of the World printed further details of his meeting with five prostitutes in London. By Alan Henry (more)

Sport on TV: Tall story of spider man is a costume drama
From The Independent. Posted April 6 2008, 12.00am
Alain Robert drives his family up the wall. The world's greatest "urban free solo" climber has scaled 80 of the world's tallest buildings without using any equipment, just his hands and feet. He has an arrest sheet as long as his arm, which in his case is very long from all the trauma he puts his muscles and tendons through. (more)

The best worst sports TV show: Under The Moon
From Media Guardian. Posted April 5 2008, 11.02pm
Take some people who have never done television and give them a three-hour live show on Channel 4. Set the cameras rolling at midnight and send the crew out for beer and pizzas. The year is 1998 and you are watching the shambolic but much loved sports phone-in Under The Moon. By John Naughton (more)

Sale pitch, then Setanta Sports calls off the game
From The Times. Posted April 5 2008, 12.00am
Setanta Sports has quietly abandoned plans to sell itself after potential buyers balked at the £1 billion asking price for the specialist sports broadcaster. (more)

Sport banished to AM at Three Counties
From Radio Today. Posted April 3 2008, 12.44pm
BBC Three Counties Radio is to have its biggest schedule revamp in 13 years from next Monday. (more)

Sport banished to AM at 3CR
From Radio Today. Posted April 3 2008, 12.44pm
BBC Three Counties Radio is to have its biggest schedule revamp in 13 years from next Monday, including changes to the breakfast show with Stephen Rhodes. (more)

Get ready for sports to turn Unreal
From Media Guardian. Posted April 2 2008, 11.05pm
Could we soon be tuning in to videogame tournaments on TV rather than the big match? Some countries already are, says Keith Stuart (more)

Keith Perry heads TMG's sport operation
From Media Guardian. Posted April 2 2008, 2.18pm
Keith Perry, the Daily Telegraph's sports editor, has been promoted the new post of group managing editor, sport. By Stephen Brook (more)

Trinity Mirror buys sports web firm Rippleeffect Studio for ÂŁ6m
From Media Guardian. Posted April 2 2008, 11.48am
Newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has bought a web firm specialising in sport, in a deal worth a potential ÂŁ6m. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

BBC revamps news and sport sites with embedded video service
From Media Guardian. Posted March 26 2008, 5.02pm
The BBC is to roll out the next phase in the relaunch of its internet offering, giving its news and sport websites a new embedded video service. By Jemima Kiss (more)

BBC to relaunch news and sport websites
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted March 26 2008, 12.00am
Changes will be made public next week as part of plans to revamp the whole BBC.co.uk site (more)

My Life in Media: Sports commentator Barry Davies
From The Independent. Posted March 24 2008, 12.00am
Sports commentator Barry Davies, 70, has been broadcasting for over 40 years. He has covered 10 World Cups, 10 Olympic Games, seven Winter Olympics, seven Commonwealth Games and many Wimbledons. On Saturday he reprises his role as "Voice of the Boat Race", commentating for LBC Radio. He lives in Datchet, Berkshire, with his wife Penny, whom he met on his first job for BBC Radio. Their daughter, Giselle, is director of communications for the International Olympic Committee, and their son, Barry, is managing director of the online betting shop Betfair. (more)

Sport on TV: Rohit teaches Ishwar a lesson in the school of hard knocks
From The Independent. Posted March 23 2008, 12.00am
After his outburst at referee Mike Riley in midweek, Radio Five Live described Ashley Cole as "divorced from reality" (as opposed to divorced from Cheryl). He is living up to the image of Premier League players as spoilt brats whose salaries somehow put them beyond the law as well as beyond the pale. It's a foul reflection of our culture. You can only hope that the kids watching don't copy him. It's just not cricket. (more)

Moore Makes it a Double for Scotsman Sport
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted March 20 2008, 8.50am
The Scotsman newspaper has picked up a second, top sportswriting award within the space of two days. Hard on the heels of writer, Mike Aitken, taking the Regional Sports Writer prize at awards hosted by the Sports' Journalists Association, columnist, Richard Moore, has taken the top spot... (more)

Sportsweek Wins Top Award
From Radio Today. Posted March 19 2008, 5.22pm
BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme has been voted the best sports programme for the second successive year at the Sports Journalists' Association Awards. (more)

Sport magazine shrinks to 'travel size'
From Media Guardian. Posted March 19 2008, 12.03pm
Free weekly magazine Sport is downsizing as it increases its pagination and sees its managing director return to France. By Mark Sweney (more)

Sports Journalism Association awards: the winners
From Media Guardian. Posted March 18 2008, 10.32am
A list of the winners in full (more)

Sports Journalists' Association awards: the winners
From Media Guardian. Posted March 18 2008, 10.32am
A list of the winners in full (more)

Martin Samuel scores hat-trick as SJA sports writer of the year
From Press Gazette. Posted March 18 2008, 12.00am
Martin Samuel of The Times has been voted sports writer of the year for the third successive year. (more)

Sport unveils new size and management shake-up
From Press Gazette. Posted March 18 2008, 12.00am
Free London weekly Sport has a new managing director and will be switching to a smaller size from 28 March when it moves to a new printing facility. (more)

Sport Relief pulls in punters to BBC1
From Media Guardian. Posted March 17 2008, 2.03pm
BBC1's Sport Relief extravaganza peaked with 7.5 million viewers. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

Strang takes helm at Autosport
From Press Gazette. Posted March 17 2008, 12.00am
Haymarket Consumer Media has appointed Simon Strang as the new editor of Autosport.com after three years of editing the ITV-F1.com site for Haymarket’s Network division. (more)

Race is on for PA sport
From Daily Telegraph. Posted March 16 2008, 12.01am
The Press Association, will next week announce that it is selling its sports division, writes Louise Armitstead. (more)

Sport on TV: A brush with royalty but not 'Off with his head'
From The Independent. Posted March 16 2008, 12.00am
Sport Relief came up with the intriguing concept of 'Sport Portraits' (BBC1, Monday and Tuesday), with five celebrated artists (and ex-cricketer Jack Russell) painting portraits of four sporting icons for a charity auction. The pop artist Sir Peter Blake, Jack Vettriano, Stella Vine, cartoonist Gerald Scarfe and photographer Rankin depicted the royal three-day eventer Zara Phillips, boxing funnyman Ricky Hatton and football's Fabio Capello and Didier Drogba. (more)

UTV, the talkSPORT owner, broadcasts its interest in a link with struggling rival Virgin Radio
From The Times. Posted March 14 2008, 12.00am
John McCann, the chief executive of talkSPORT owner UTV, yesterday made clear his interest in buying Virgin Radio. (more)

TalkSport owner keen to bag Virgin Radio
From The Times. Posted March 13 2008, 12.02pm
John McCann, the chief executive of TalkSport owner UTV, this morning voiced his commitment to buying Virgin Radio, saying it has a similar demographic to its national speech radio station. (more)

TalkSport helps UTV outperform
From Financial Times. Posted March 13 2008, 8.41am
Revenues at TalkSport, the voice only sports radio service, soared in the first quarter, helping UTV to outperform its media peers (more)

Eurosport leads cable and satellite ratings
From Rapid TV News. Posted March 12 2008, 2.32pm
Médiamétrie’s biannual survey on French cable, satellite and ADSL ratings for September 2007 to February 2008 has confirmed Eurosport’s leading position.  (more)

XM Touts College Basketball, SIRIUS Offers Snow Sports
From radio.about.com. Posted March 12 2008, 12.00am
XM Hypes Hoops XM Satellite Radio will air the men's college basketball tournaments for the six major conferences starting March 12. XM carries the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12,... (more)

Eurosport goes HDTV
From Rapid TV News. Posted March 10 2008, 3.20pm
Eurosport is to start transmissions in high definition on May 25, in time for a summer of sport but kicking off with the important Roland Garros tennis championship. (more)

BBC plans push into mobile sport content
From Digital Spy. Posted March 10 2008, 10.48am
The BBC is to make its sport coverage more accessible on mobile devices. (more)

Martin Samuel in frame for third SJA sports writer of year prize
From Press Gazette. Posted March 10 2008, 12.00am
Martin Samuel, the football correspondent of The Times, is in contention to be named Sports Journalists' Association sports writer of the year for a third year running. (more)

Sport on TV: Pistorius pursued by prejudice, Harmison chased by demons
From The Independent. Posted March 9 2008, 12.00am
Oscar Pistorius is indeed an extraordinary person, as "The Fastest Man On No Legs" (Five, Wednesday) proclaimed. As an infant, he had both feet amputated at the ankle. Now the International Association of Athletics Federations are running scared of him running away with a sprint medal at the Olympics – with the aid of his state-of-the-art carbon fibre limbs. (more)

Sports journalist loses long fight with multiple sclerosis
From Hold the Front Page. Posted March 7 2008, 8.45am
Evening Post and Western Daily Press man also worked for BBC Radio Bristol (more)

Sport on TV: Auntie Beeb itching for a fight as old silverware is scrapped
From The Independent. Posted March 2 2008, 12.00am
When something is comic and tragic all at once, surely it's worth waiting for? So it may have taken three hours and 24 minutes for Middlesbrough to score the solitary goal that beat Sheffield United in the FA Cup (BBC1, Wednesday), but it was a moment of exquisite drama. If it wasn't the grand old "romance of the Cup", the tribulation of Paddy Kenny was at the very least heartbreaking. (more)

Design expert Bovis joins Daily Sport
From Media Guardian. Posted February 27 2008, 4.28pm
The editor of the Daily Sport has resigned, as publisher Sport Media Group gears up for a major relaunch of the title by hiring newspaper design expert Julian Bovis. By Mark Sweney (more)

BBC says sorry for sports marathon
From Media Guardian. Posted February 27 2008, 2.11pm
The BBC has apologised to viewers who were unhappy that BBC1 showed nearly 12 hours of continuous sport on Saturday. By John Plunkett (more)

Setanta Sports ad cleared of sexism allegations
From UTalk Marketing. Posted February 27 2008, 10.04am
?Carry On? style humour upheld (more)

Daily Sport editor quits ahead of relaunch
From Press Gazette. Posted February 27 2008, 12.00am
The editor of the Daily Sport has quit the paper after 16 years with the paper ahead of a relaunch on Monday. (more)

Sport moves away from sex for 'newzine' approach
From Press Gazette. Posted February 27 2008, 12.00am
The Daily Sport and Sunday Sport are set to relaunch next week in a move which will see the papers position themselves away from a traditional sex-led approach to a more mainstream “newszine” format. (more)

Country's top sportswriters up for annual media awards
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 26 2008, 2.35pm
See the shortlist for the SJA's 2007 British Sports Journalism Awards (more)

Sports pair up for hat-trick of awards
From Media Guardian. Posted February 26 2008, 1.01pm
Martin Samuel of the Times and Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling will be going for a hat-trick of trophies at the British Sports Journalism awards next month. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

Daily Sport targets 'the boys' with revamp
From Media Guardian. Posted February 26 2008, 9.48am
The Daily Sport will relaunch from Monday as a cross between 'Nuts, Zoo, Bravo and Sky Sports'. By Mark Sweney (more)

Daily Sport revamp targets 'the boys'
From Media Guardian. Posted February 26 2008, 9.48am
The Daily Sport will relaunch from Monday as a cross between 'Nuts, Zoo, Bravo and Sky Sports'. By Mark Sweney (more)

The BBC's sports coverage can be a real test of stamina
From Media Guardian. Posted February 26 2008, 12.50am
Last weekend the BBC devoted 12 straight hours of prime TV real estate almost entirely to sport. Even for a veteran armchair sports omnivore like Barney Ronay, it was too much of a good thing (more)

Local sports reporter fights nationals for Wooldridge prize
From Press Gazette. Posted February 26 2008, 12.00am
A journalist from a local newspaper in West Lothian will compete against writers on the Daily Telegraph and Guardian.co.uk in the inaugural young sports writer of the year category at this year's British Sports Journalism Awards. (more)

Sport on TV: Wheel of misfortune for the girl born on wrong side of the track
From The Independent. Posted February 24 2008, 12.00am
From Russian Jewish boxers last week to Muslim woman racing drivers. And what could be better to avoid breaking oppressive dress codes imposed by the Iranian authorities than a racing driver's jumpsuit? (more)

Sport on TV: Marriage of sweet music and the sweet science
From The Independent. Posted February 23 2008, 12.00am
Charlie, studying fine art at Oxford, has led a charmed existence. "Charlie has drawn a royal flush in the poker hand of life," his mum says, contentedly. "The good fairy was there at his baptism." (more)

Lynam to host 'Sport Mastermind'
From Digital Spy. Posted February 21 2008, 12.42pm
Des Lynam signs up to host a sport version of Mastermind - his first BBC show since defecting to ITV. (more)

Williams joins talkSPORT
From Radio Today. Posted February 19 2008, 2.11pm
Russ Williams has joined talkSPORT to present a permanent weekday evening programme. The presenter will continue to present mid-mornings on Virgin Radio.Williams will present the Monday evening show previously hosted by Kelly Dalglish. (more)

Virgin's Williams moves to TalkSport
From Media Guardian. Posted February 19 2008, 1.22pm
Virgin Radio DJ Russ Williams has joined TalkSport to present the Monday evening slot previously occupied by Kelly Dalglish. By John Plunkett (more)

DJ Williams takes TalkSport slot
From Media Guardian. Posted February 19 2008, 1.22pm
Virgin Radio DJ Russ Williams has joined TalkSport to present the Monday evening slot previously occupied by Kelly Dalglish. By John Plunkett (more)

Amir Khan wins big at Sony TV's sports awards
From Biz Asia. Posted February 18 2008, 10.24pm
Amir Khan and Mark Ramprakash were amongst the big winners at the Sony Network organised British Asian Sports Awards (BASA) on Saturday (16th February). (more)

Sport on TV: From kosher Russia with love for the American Dreamer
From The Independent. Posted February 17 2008, 12.00am
Heard the one about the Russian boxer, the rabbi's brother and the American dream? It's in the best possible taste. "Orthodox Stance" (BBC4, Tuesday) by the cut-above "Storyville" strand, told the tale of Dmitriy Salita, the son of Ukrainian émigrés, who is working his way towards a world-title shot in the US while strictly observing his orthodox Jewish faith. (more)

Sunday Telegraph sport editor quits
From Media Guardian. Posted February 15 2008, 4.30pm
Jon Ryan, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph sport section for the past eight years, is set to step down. By Stephen Brook (more)

Sunday Telegraph sport editor departs
From Media Guardian. Posted February 15 2008, 4.30pm
Jon Ryan, the editor of the Sunday Telegraph sport section for the past eight years, is set to step down. By Stephen Brook (more)

PA Group considers sale of sport division
From Media Guardian. Posted February 13 2008, 12.47pm
PA Group, the owner of the Press Association newswire, is considering selling its PA Sport division. By Stephen Brook (more)

PA Group considers PA Sport sell-off
From Press Gazette. Posted February 13 2008, 12.00am
PA Group, parent company of the Press Association, has said it would consider selling its PA Sports division as part of a review announced today. (more)

Home fixture as new sports editor leaves the Spanish sun
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 11 2008, 12.00pm
Hull Daily Mail signs up new sports supremo after 16 years in Spanish capital (more)

Home fixture for as new sports editor leaves the Spanish sun
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 11 2008, 9.00am
Hull Daily Mail signs up new sports supremo after 16 years in Spanish capital (more)

Sport on TV: Keeping the memory alive, even if it's time to move on
From The Independent. Posted February 10 2008, 12.00am
Gregg saves. And Gregg is saved. 'One Life: Harry Gregg's Journey' (BBC1, Wednesday) was one of several programmes to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Munich disaster that featured Gregg, the Manchester United goalkeeper who pulled other survivors from the wreckage of the plane. But 'One Life' provided a more personal perspective. (more)

Super Bowl scores US TV sport record
From Media Guardian. Posted February 5 2008, 11.11am
Nearly 100 million people watched the Super Bowl in the US, making it the second most watched TV programme in American broadcasting history. By Chris Tryhorn (more)

More sport, news and games on Direct 8
From Rapid TV News. Posted February 4 2008, 1.46pm
With the aim of reaching a 2.5% audience share by 2012, DTT channel Direct 8 is strengthening into sport, news and game shows. (more)

Sports editor marks 25 years at weekly with FA Cup tie celebration
From Hold the Front Page. Posted February 4 2008, 12.50am
Spurs legend and TV pundit Clive Allen presents journalist with a commemorative team shirt (more)

Better picture for German sports fans
From Rapid TV News. Posted February 3 2008, 1.39am
German sports channel Deutsches SportFernsehen (DSF) has improved the picture quality of its digital TV signal on Astra (19.2° East), raising the bandwidth by more than 50 per cent. (more)

Sport on TV: He's never wrong but Brown fails to frighten the bookies
From The Independent. Posted February 3 2008, 12.00am
We could have woken up to a different world this morning. When the master illusionist Derren Brown said he would reveal his "guaranteed" way of winning on the horses on 'The System' (Channel 4, Friday), many of us thought we'd be facing the mother of all hangovers after a Dettori-style 100 per cent success rate at the races yesterday. But it was not to be. Why did we ever think that it would? The great disillusionist, more like. (more)

Alton to pen sport column for Spectator
From Media Guardian. Posted January 30 2008, 7.20am
Former Observer editor Roger Alton has accepted his first journalism job since leaving the paper - he will become the Spectator sport columnist. By Stephen Brook (more)

Journalism needs to 'man the barricades' against the increasing demands of large sporting event
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 30 2008, 12.00am
Media rights consultant Andrew Moger tells an industry forum that journalism has been 'sleeping for too long' on rights issues    (more)

Journalism needs to 'man the barricades' against the increasing demands of large sporting events
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 30 2008, 12.00am
Media rights consultant Andrew Moger tells an industry forum that journalism has been 'sleeping for too long' on rights issues    (more)

Sports editor bows out after over 30 years in local newspapers
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 29 2008, 9.05am
Gazette and Reporter man blows final whistle on long sports reporting career (more)

Sports journalism under microscope at media industry forum
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 28 2008, 12.00am
BBC sports editor Mihir Bose to be guest panellist at digital news event (more)

Sport on TV: No big cheeses in Eurosport's studios to grate on the senses
From The Independent. Posted January 27 2008, 12.00am
Eurosport had all the fun this week. So they missed out on the cheese-rolling championships covered by Transworld Sport – why did one male competitor insist on taking part wearing only a thong, surely it's weird enough already? – but they've had a good slice of the action, presiding over remarkable upsets in the Australian Open tennis and spectacular goals at the African Nations Cup. The only ingredient lacking was the Leicester Reds against the Gloucester Doubles. (more)

Jim Rosenthal Axed as ITV Sports Host
From Merry Media. Posted January 26 2008, 10.13am
Jim Rosenthal has apparently been axed as a sports presenter for ITV according to a report in the Sun newspaper. The 60-year-old, who has been with ITV for 28 years, was told that his contract would not be renewed. . (more)

Zoo founder to make Sport 'modern tabloid for blokes'
From Press Gazette. Posted January 22 2008, 12.00am
?The publisher of the Sunday and Daily Sport has signalled its intention to take the titles into lads’ mag territory by appointing former Emap man Barry McIlheney as editor-in-chief of the two publications. (more)

Regional newspaper editor heads up new sports training programme
From Hold the Front Page. Posted January 21 2008, 12.00am
Training council launches new certificate for would-be sports reporters (more)

Sport on TV: Not laughing but drowning all the way to the Sandbanks
From The Independent. Posted January 20 2008, 1.00am
If you could live in one of the most expensive places on earth, would you make your home in Poole, Dorset? More to the point, would you let a former tabloid editor go tramping around your house poking his nose in? 'Piers Morgan on Sandbanks' (ITV1, Tuesday to Thursday) explored the phenomenon of a peninsula where a dilapidated old two up, two down with a view costs Ł5 million. (more)

NCTJ launches new sports journalism qualification
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 18 2008, 12.00am
Sports journalism qualification to be offered as optional extra to trainees    (more)

Murdoch tells WSJ execs: "Shorter stories, more sport"
From Press Gazette. Posted January 17 2008, 12.00am
In his first meeting with Wall Street Journal bureau chiefs - who flew in from all around the world - Rupert Murdoch reiterated his plan to make feature stories in the Journal much shorter, especially those that start on page one. (more)

NCTJ launches sports journalism course
From Press Gazette. Posted January 17 2008, 12.00am
The National Council for the Training of Journalists will launch a sports journalism course for trainee reporters and sub-editors next year. (more)

Sunday Times' Skipworth poached for Telegraph sport role
From Press Gazette. Posted January 15 2008, 12.00am
The Daily Telegraph has poached Sunday Times managing editor (news) Mark Skipworth to be executive editor (sport). (more)

Daily Sport heads towards men's mag territory with Emap MD
From Press Gazette. Posted January 14 2008, 12.00am
Sunday and Daily Sport publisher, Sport Media Group, has appointed a former Emap lads’ mag publisher as editor-in-chief in a bid to make the titles' more like general interest men's magazines. (more)

Daily Sport heads towards men's mags with Emap MD
From Press Gazette. Posted January 14 2008, 12.00am
Sunday and Daily Sport publisher, Sport Media Group, has appointed a former Emap lads’ mag publisher as editor-in-chief in a bid to make the titles' more like general interest men's magazines. (more)

Sport on TV: Moustaches may bristle but let's get our ears twitching
From The Independent. Posted January 13 2008, 2.00am
It's the Balkan Tennis Open in Tulovnik. The mighty Vuk Ergovich is about to serve to little Jimmy Stojkovic. The commentator has taken charge of the PA address system. "Let us pray to the gods that his execution from this tournament will be swift and painful," he screams. "He has the most pathetic moustache I've ever seen." "Fairy Tales: Rapunzel" (BBC1, Thursday), the first of four old stories set in the modern world, chose pro tennis as its subject matter. Let's hope the Australian Open isn't like that. (more)

Local sports news site eyes US expansion
From Journalism.co.uk. Posted January 11 2008, 12.00am
Plans to expand myfootballwriter.com to US sports reach final round of Knight News Challenge 2007    (more)