Norwich journalist relaunches self-published football site

Posted by Martin Stabe on 2 July 2007 at 18:08
Tags: Archant, BBC, Rick Waghorn, Sky, Sport

Rick Waghorn, the ex-Norwich Evening News football correspondent who set out on his own online after being made redundant, has relaunched his website in the the first step of a plan to take his solo-publishing model nationwide.

Last year, Waghorn used a redundancy payout to set up a web site to cover Norwich City FC, the same patch he had covered for the Evening News.

Now Waghorn has moved his site, which had been located at RickWaghorn.co.uk, to NorwichCity.MyFootballWriter.com.

The new site has scrapped it’s mobile WAP service in favour of mobile Internet browsing. Beginning next month it will offer a subscription service that will provide full access to the site for £1.50 per month. The site also aggregates news feeds from the BBC Sport, Sky Sports and Archant’s local sports web site the Pink ‘Un,. A podcast is also in the works.

In April, Waghorn said he is hoping to franchise his model of solo-publishing regional sports journalism to cover other football clubs in the same way.

“There are about 40 or 50 regional newspaper football writers who have covered clubs for years and have strong personal brands,” he said in April.

“If you go through all the provincial clubs in the country, they’ve all got one of me at their local morning or evening paper.”

Waghorn said today that he remains in talks with other members of “the pack” of regional football writers.

Tags: Archant, BBC, Rick Waghorn, Sky, Sport