Sport & Media Management

August 2008

The Daily Mail's chief sports writer, Paul Hayward, confirms that he is leaving the paper in order to accept
a senior writing role at the Observer/Guardian.

Ben Jacobs presents a four-hour Olympic special for Up All Night on 5 Live going into the last weekend
of the Games.

BBC sports editor, Mihir Bose, agrees to be a keynote speaker at the 2008 World Squash Conference
in Manchester.

July 2008

James Lawton completes his work on part two of the Bobby Charlton story:
'My England Years' (pictured right) - due for publication in September.

Ben Jacobs begins a series of assignments for BBC WM.

Sue Mott provides the Daily Mail with an exclusive insight into the 'real' Andy Murray.

Tom Watt starts a new season of hosting the weekly fans forum for Arsenal TV, and signs for a third series of educational books with publishers, Rising Stars.

 

June 2008

Sue Mott conducts stage interviews with John McEnroe and Tim Henman at a National Sporting Club charity dinner (right) during Wimbledon fortnight, and also makes daily appearances on US TV channel, ESPN.

Hugh McIlvanney agrees to speak at an exclusive Sporting luncheon to be held at Claridges in December.

Stephen Jones looks back on a memorable 6-Nations campaign for a book being produced by the Welsh RFU to celebrate their success in the 2008 championship.

May 2008

Jim White talks to new Inter-Milan boss, Jose Mourinho, on behalf of Ford's Champions' League
web-site feature coverage (pictured right).

Nearer to home, Tom Watt profiles Crystal Palace manager Neil Warnock for the Evening Standard
before the play-offs, and hosts Arsenal TV's seven programme series on 'Arsenal's 50 Greatest Players'.

Will Buckley completes his work on a new book based on Radio 5's award-winning Fighting Talk programme, due out in the Autumn.

 

 

April 2008

David Conn analyses the developing financial implications of the London Olympics in a major article for Cass Business Schools' influential magazine 'In Business'.

Tom Watt agrees to a new series of football-based educational books for publishers Rising Stars and also supplies the first of six intended pieces for the Evening Standard with an interpretation of Arsenal's disappointing end to the season.

Jim White is signed by Ford to provide twice-weekly Champions League comment and feature material for their web-based, Feel Football programme.

Laura Williamson interviews Sir Bobby Robson for the latest edition of the Leader magazine and signs a contract with the Daily Mail.

Ben Jacobs debuts on BBC1's Final Score and helps produce the BBC radio campaign for Euro 2008, as well as increasing his regular output for 5 Live.

Sue Mott completes her work on Andy Murray's forthcoming autobiography (publication in June) and appears again on Five Live's Fighting Talk.

March 2008

Sir Bobby Charlton's life story (part one) written in conjunction with James Lawton, takes top prize for best autobiography at the British Sports Book Awards (pictured right).

Paul Kimmage wins the Sports Interviewer of the Year title for the fourth consecutive year at the prestigious Sports Journalism Awards. Paul Hayward, Stephen Jones,
Sue Mott, David Conn and James Lawton are all short listed in their categories, with Paul Hayward also runner-up as Sport Journalist of the Year.

John Taylor previews Wales' matches for Sky News during their successful Six Nations campaign.

 

February 2008

Paul Hayward chief sports writer at the Daily Mail, and much applauded for his work with Michael Owen and
Sir Bobby Robson on their recent autobiographies,
joins the DWM team. He thus renews an association with David Welch with whom he previously worked on the
multi-award winning pages of the Daily Telegraph
broadsheet Sport Supplements.

Meanwhile, James Lawton, SJA sports feature writer of the year, agrees a new contract with the Independent, keeping him at the paper at least until the London Olympics in 2012.

The first of three books (pictured right) in Tom Watt's educational series for publishers, Rising Stars - based on football - is published to an enthusiastic response from schools across the country.

 

January 2008

Stuart Barnes becomes an 'ambassador' for Betfair during the Six Nations championship, and hosts events
for the company at Twickenham.

Tom Watt agrees to supply new football website 'StarSquad' with exclusive copy concerning some of the country's leading performers, and, along with Jim White, continues to make regular appearances on
Five Live's Fighting Talk.

Patrick Barclay similarly extends his run on the Simon Mayo show, other mid-week Radio5 programmes, and Setanta's 'Football Matters'.

Mark Hodgkinson, highly-regarded tennis correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, is a welcome new addition to the DWM line-up.

December 2007

Tom Watt agrees to host a weekly Fans Forum starting on Friday nights in January for the new Arsenal TV station, which proves so popular that air-time for the programme is immediately extended.

Lucinda Green presents Lewis Hamilton with his trophy as International newcomer of the Year at the Sports Journalists' annual Awards lunch (above right).

James Lawton caps a wonderful 12 months - in which he produced the most successful sports book of the year with Sir Bobby Charlton - by being named as Sports Journalist of the year in the What the Papers Say Awards (below right). David Conn is runner-up with Martin Samuel of The Times.

Sue Mott is enlisted again as a judge in the annual
British Sports Book Awards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 2007

Patrick Barclay records the history of football at the old Wembley for Prestel's newly published book:
Wembley Stadium - Venue of Legends. (Right)

Simon and Schuster secure the rights to Paul Kimmage's eagerly-awaited new book to be written in
conjunction with Matthew Hampson whose dreams of becoming a fully fledged England player were cruelly brought to an end when he was paralysed during training with the international under-21 rugby squad
two years ago.

DWM welcomes highly-regarded young Radio5 Live and Smooth FM broadcaster, Ben Jacobs, to the team and also secures sponsorship for the Sports Journalists' Association from BT Vision.

Tom Watt hosts a Corporate Charity Evening at the David Beckham Football Academy in Greenwich.

October 2007

Sue Mott is signed to work with Andy Murray on one of the top sporting autobiographies planned for 2008, while James Lawton's outstanding work on the first part of Bobby Charlton's life-story is rewarded with a place on the short-list for this year's William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.

Hugh McIlvanney contributes a major piece on Jimmy Johnstone to Kraken's forthcoming Celtic Opus.

Jim White writes and presents an updated Jose Mourinho documentary for Sky TV.

Laura Williamson interviews James Cracknell for the winter edition of the Leader magazine.

September 2007

September sees the Emirates Stadium launch of Kraken's Highbury Opus written by Sue Mott, Alan Smith and David Miller with contributions from Paddy Barclay
and Tom Watt PLUS the publication of Peter Crouch's autobiography written in association with Sam Wallace,
and that of Jim White's highly-acclaimed new book:
'You'll Win Nothing With Kids'.(below right)

Tom Watt appears on a new football video alongside
Gary Lineker for DVD PRO Ltd and features on the first
programme in the new series of Fighting Talk on Radio 5 Live - to be followed shortly after by Jim White and Sue Mott.

Hugh McIlvanney delights an enthusiastic audience at the Dundee Sportmans Dinner with a memorable after-dinner performance, and Paddy Barclay is signed up for Setanta's new show, Football Matters, as well as appearing as a pundit during ITV's Champions League coverage.

 

 

 

 

August 2007

Tom Watt signs a three-book deal with publishers,
Rising Stars UK, to produce copy for a series of educational books based on a ficticious football club... and facilitates and produces a major exclusive interview with David Beckham for the Observer Sports Monthly September edition (right).

Laura Williamson interviews Frank Warren for the next Leader Magazine, having contributed her first article on Roger Black for the publication's previous edition.

Stephen Jones previews the Rugby World Cup for Ladbroke's pre-event brochure.

 

July 2007

Sue Mott looks back on the Wimbledon championships for American magazine, Tennis Week.

Paddy Barclay, Tom Watt and John Taylor feature in Piers Morgan's new DVD documentary on
English sport.

June 2007

Sue Mott presents the British perspective on Wimbledon for ESPN viewers throughout the tennis championships for the third year running.

Will Buckley joins Laura Williamson in writing a regular column for The Leader Magazine (right) produced by Sports Leaders UK.

Mihir Bose addresses an elite sporting audience at UK Sport's Dinner in Sunningdale.

DWM arranges for James Nesbitt to contribute the foreword to Norman Whiteside's forthcoming autobiography produced by Headline.

May 2007

Tom Watt hosts Arsenal's annual Charity Ball at the Emirates Stadium, having presented the Queens Park Rangers Player of the Year awards awards a week earlier, and appears at the Hay Literary Festival to discuss the art of ghost-writing.

Paddy Barclay discusses end-of-season footballing matters with Adam Boulton on his Sunday morning
Sky News programme.

April 2007

Jim White and Sue Mott contribute major pieces on 'Sports champagne moments' and women's tennis for the summer edition of Square Meal magazine.

March 2007

Paul Kimmage is named Sports Interviewer of the Year at the 2006 Sports Journalists' Association Awards for the third year running, with Sue Mott short-listed here and in the Columnist of the Year category. James Lawton wins the coveted Feature Writer of the Year title, with Paul Kimmage highly commended. Stephen Jones is judged to have produced the Sports Story of the Year, and Mihir Bose is short-listed in the Sports News Reporter section.

Following earlier appearances by Tom Watt, Will Buckley and David Conn, Jim White and Sue Mott become the latest DWM clients to join Radio 5 Live's popular Saturday morning programme, Fighting Talk. Paddy Barclay, meanwhile, continues to feature regularly on 5 Live's mid-week sports shows.

February 2007

Tom Watt presents a sporting evening for Crystal Palace Football Club, and Sue Mott hosts the Herts. 2012 Olympic Conference in Hatfield.

Stephen Jones and Stuart Barnes are signed to contribute columns to Rugby World, with Stephen also contracted to the New Zealand version of the magazine.

ITV's lead rugby commentator, John Taylor - a former British Lion who was recently voted Wales' greatest ever number 7 - joins DWM.

January 2007

Mihir Bose starts at the BBC as their first ever Sports Editor after ten highly successful years leading the Daily Telegraph's coverage of sports news.

Jim White re-signs with STV to front studio presentation of the next stage of Celtic's Champions' League campaign in February and March.

 

 

 

 

December 2006

Stuart Barnes joins Sportswoman of the Year, Zara Phillips, at the 2006 SJA Sports Awards at The Brewery where he earlier presented the J.L.Manning trophy to racehorse trainer, Martin Pipe, for his outstanding contribution to sport.

Sam Wallace starts work with Peter Crouch on one of the leading football autobiographies planned for 2007.

Kraken's Manchester United Opus - written by DWM writers, Jim White, James Lawton, Jonathan Northcroft, Patrick Barclay and Hugh McIlvanney, is unveiled at Old Trafford (below right) by Sir Bobby Charlton and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and subsequently meets with huge international acclaim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 2006

Elena Baltacha successfully returns from an enforced lay-off for Scotland against England in the annual Aberdeen Cup tennis tournament (right), winning both her singles and doubles matches.

Mihir Bose and Sue Mott host all-day Regional Summits on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games at Knebworth House and the University of Essex respectively.

 

 

 

October 2006

Tom Watt and David Conn join regular panellist Will Buckley when making their first appearances on
Fighting Talk.

Mihir Bose recalls the sporting headlines for Shine Television in their programme on the 80s for Channel 5.

Sue Mott features on high-profile panel at Lord's (right)
to discuss Women in Sport before an audience made up of major sporting sponsors and officials.

 

 

September 2006

Jim White hosts TV coverage of Celtic's Champions' League campaign for STV.

Tom Watt provides a moving account of life on the North Bank for Kraken's Arsenal/Highbury Opus being written by Sue Mott, Alan Smith and David Miller with contributions from Patrick Barclay on Arsene Wenger and
George Graham. To be published in 2007.

 

 

 

August 2006

James Lawton is chosen to work with Sir Bobby Charlton on his eagerly awaited Headline autobiography (in two parts) in preference to a host of would-be ghost writers.

Mihir Bose and Patrick Barclay feature as part of Sky’s Sport Matters series.

June - July 2006

Sue Mott presents the domestic view from Wimbledon as part of ESPN's daily US TV coverage of the championships (for the second year running).

 

June 2006

Jim Lawton, Jim White and Patrick Barclay preview the new Premiership season for Sky
from the World Cup.

Jim White follows up his earlier programme on Jose Mourinho with an hour-long Sky TV documentary on England managers including Sven Goran Eriksson.

May 2006

Patrick Barclay, provides voice-over for Sky’s six-part series on the World Cup, with world-wide distribution, and also features in 'World Cup Heaven and Hell', ITV's special five-programme build-up to the tournament.

 

Giles Long (multi gold-medal winning paralympian) joins Sue Mott for an after-dinner interview to entertain Lloyds representatives in London.

 

Tom Watt hosts the Final Salute celebrations on behalf of Arsenal on an emotional last day at Highbury, having previewed the occasion in a feature for the Express in the morning. Later in the month he hosts a box for sponsors, Wickes, at the play-off finals in Cardiff.

 

April 2006

Tom Watt reviews Alf Ramsey's biography for the Mail on Sunday.

Martin Johnson signs as a columnist for newly launched Swing (golf) magazine (pictured right).

David Conn follows up his Guardian article on Derby County FC for East Midlands TV.

 

 

March 2006

Tom Watt becomes a regular weekly columnist for the newly-launched Sportsman newspaper and, before it is re-positioned - six months later as a racing paper - goes on to interview some of the biggest names in football.

David Conn hosts a major Institute of Directors conference in Manchester.

Lucinda Green writes of her return visit (right) to the Sunday Express Magazine, 25 years after enjoying a 'make over' in their launch issue.

 

 

 

 

February 2006

James Lawton is named as sports columnist of the year in the 2005 Sports Journalism Awards.

Paul Kimmage is sports interviewer of the year with Sue Mott highly commended and Jonathan Northcroft and David Walsh both short-listed.

David Welch is awarded the Doug Gardner Trophy for his contribution to sports journalism and for his role in persuading the Government to support the London 2012 Olympic bid in 2002.

David Conn is short-listed for Sports News
Reporter of the year.

 

 

 

 

 

January 2006

David Welch joins Kraken Sports and Media as editorial consultant.

Jim White and David Conn offer their views in TV special on the FA scandal concerning Faria Alam.

December 2005

Lucinda Green presents Zara Phillips with the Pat Besford trophy for the year's outstanding sporting performance - following her success in the European Three-Day Event Championships - at the prestigious Sports Journalists' Association's Annual Awards.

Sue Mott presents the annual 'What the Papers Say' TV review of the sporting year.

Jim White, Patrick Barclay and James Lawton are all signed to contribute to Sky TV's tribute
to George Best.

November 2005

Patrick Barclay and Jim White add weight to Bravo's increasing commitment to football coverage with appearances on their Italian and World Cup Shows.

September 2005

Patrick Barclay and Sue Mott sign for the Guardian Saturday Sports show on Channel 4,
hosted by Clive Anderson

David Walsh provides a timely lead article for GQ Sport Magazine on the ill-fated triple Gold Cup winner,
Best Mate.

August 2005

Kraken come calling: Jim White, James Lawton and Jonathan Northcroft are contracted to write the 500,000 word, Manchester United Opus. DWM later arranges for Hugh McIlvanney, Patrick Barclay and James Nesbitt to make significant contributions.

 

Stephen Jones, David Walsh and Brendan Gallagher agree to produce a similar Opus on England rugby (pub. 2007).

 

Sue Mott, Alan Smith and David Miller sign for Arsenal Opus on closing of Highbury (pub. Spring 2007). Contributions later arranged from Patrick Barclay and Tom Watt.

July 2005

Jim White writes, and presents, a highly-acclaimed, hour-long, TV documentary for Sky on Jose Mourinho (with another to follow, a year later, on Sven Goran Eriksson).

June - July 2005

Sue Mott provides ESPN's US television viewers with the British perspective from the Wimbledon championships... as well as presenting features on
Elena Baltacha and the 2012 London Olympics for the BBC.

 

 

 

June 2005

Elena Baltacha takes part in an exclusive picture spread for the Daily Mirror.

Stephen Jones enlightens NZ rugby readers with regular columns in the Sunday Star-Times during
the Lions tour.

Martin Johnson and Sue Mott appear on Sky's Sporting Legend series hosted by Sir David Frost
and Des Lynam.

May 2005

David Welch represents the Corinthian Casuals Football Club in their negotiations with Wembley and Stoke Park over use of the name Corinthian Club at the new Wembley stadium (eventually to prove successful). Also signs to present series of media-awareness sessions for the Lawn Tennis Association.

April 2005

Elena Baltacha becomes an Ambassador for Sports Leaders UK.

March 2005

Paul Kimmage (top, right) receives the Sports Interviewer of the Year trophy from Ian Botham at the 2004 Sports Journalism Awards, while David Conn (bottom, left) collects his Sports News Reporter prize from Robert Charles, Head of Sport at Channel Five.

 

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