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News and selected assignments - 2007
December 2007
Picture courtesy of the SJA
Jim Lawton receives his What the Papers Say award
from David Blunkett.
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
Picture courtesy of Prestel Publishing
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
Thierry Henry takes delivery of his copy of the
Highbury Opus. Picture courtesy of Kraken Opus
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
Michael Parkinson (SJA President) joins DWM award
winners at the presentation dinner in March. Pictured
above are (l-r) Paul Kimmage, Michael Parkinson,
James Lawton and Stephen Jones.
Picture courtesy of SJA
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 discusses Olympic matters with leader of
the London 2012 Games, Sebastian Coe.
Picture: Mike King
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.
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