José Mourinho is one of three new appointments at the Telegraph Media Group

Posted by Meabh Ritchie on 12 August 2008 at 15:14
Tags: Journalism, National Newspapers

José Mourinho will be writing a column on British football for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and telegraph.co.uk from this weekend. The former Chelsea manager is already involved in the Telegraph Fantasy Football league which has over 250,000 players.

The Guardian’s Paul Kelso has also been appointed Chief Sports Reporter for The Daily Telegraph and will also report across The Sunday Telegraph and the website. He is currently a sports reporter at the Guardian and is leaving after ten years at the paper.

The Telegraph’s sport reporter Duncan White has been appointed to the post of football correspondent after writing for the paper since 2003.

Bob Crampsey, Scottish writer and broadcaster dies aged 78

Posted by Meabh Ritchie on 12 August 2008 at 11:39
Tags: BBC, Broadcast

Veteran sports broadcaster Bob Crampsey died aged 78 after a long illness. He became a part of the BBC Radio Scotland Sportsound team in 1987 and remained a popular fixture there until his retirement in 2001.

Crampsey was noted for his encyclopaedic knowledge of football and also won the BBC’s Brain of Britain competition in 1965. He preceded his career in journalism with work as a history teacher.

He had contributed to a range of sports programmes on BBC Scotland, Scottish Television and Radio Clyde. Over the past 40 years, he also wrote a column for Glasgow’s evening times entitled Now You Know, answering readers’ sports history questions.

Crampsey is survived by his wife of 50 years, and four daughters.

George Galloway wins libel case over Jewish radio station’s jibe

Posted by Meabh Ritchie on 12 August 2008 at 11:33
Tags: Journalism, Law, Radio

MP George Galloway has been awarded £15,000 plus costs in libel damages against a small Jewish radio station that implied he was anti-Semitic.

Jcom radio is London’s only Jewish radio station and has had to close as result of the costs.

The comments were made in November 2007 and involved a spoof character called ‘Georgie Galloway’ whose catchphrase was anti-Semitic, calling for the killing of Jews.

The broadcaster who made the comments was fired after the comments were made and an apology was immediately put on the website.

Mr Justice Eady said that the catchphrase was in “appalling taste.”

He said: “Mr Galloway is the founding member of the Respect Party and is prominent in denouncing racism and discrimination and has no anti-Semitic or racist views.”