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Vikki Orvice’s legacy – Sun Scholarship scheme
The Sun are launching a scholarship scheme for aspiring female sportswriters in honour of Vikki Orvice, who passed away on Wednesday.
Vikki was the Sun's athletics correspondent and also covered football for the paper, having become the first female sports journalist to be employed by a tabloid newspaper in 1995.
Tags: Scholarship, The Sun, Vikki Orvice, Women in Football, Women Sportswriter
Vikki Orvice – a tribute by Jacqui Oatley
Jacqui Oatley, the broadcaster, was brought on to the FWA's National Committee by Vikki Orvice, who passed away today at the age of 56. Here is Jacqui's tribute to her friend and our dear colleague.BRAVE. FEARLESS. TRAILBLAZER. PIONEER.
There was only one Vikki Orvice. That’s clear from the many tributes which have poured in from journalists and senior sporting figures alike following the desperately sad news of our beloved colleague’s passing. Taken from us by cancer at the age of 56, but not before she’d squeezed every drop out of life and found humour ...
Tags: ian ridley, Jacqui Oatley, The Sun, Vikki Orvice, Women in Football
Vikki Orvice RIP – by Steve Howard
Vikki Orvice, the FWA's vice-chair and a long-standing National Committee member, lost her long battle with cancer today at the age of 56. She was a much-loved colleague to many of us at the FWA and especially at The Sun, where she covered athletics and football.Former SunSport chief sports writer and FWA member Steven Howard paid tribute to his colleague on the Sun's website, and we are honoured to reproduce it here:
Tags: Football Writers' Association, Steven Howard, The Sun, Vikki Orvice
FWA Q&A: PAUL JIGGINS
PAUL JIGGINS of The Sun on the greatest gift from his dad...minky whale and reindeer in Reykjavik...and Dyson with death in BaltimoreHave you ever worked in a profession other than football?
Yep. Supermarket shelf-stacker, early morning office cleaner and trainee asphalter. I then joined The Sun as a messenger before going on to write, take photos for and eventually edit the company's staff newspaper and newsmagazine. I later spent a year (six months of that on gardening leave) as officer of communications for the NHS in North London before John Wardle and Ian Whittell saved me from insanity by ...
Tags: Arsenal, Big Bang Theory, Carlo Ancelotti, Champions League, Dave Cusack, iPhone app, millwall, Monaco GP, Paul Jiggins, paul scholes, Reykjavik, Royal Ascot, Selhurst Park, Shelf-stacker, Steve Evans, The Den, The Emirates, The Sun, Wedding Photographer
FWA Q&A: ANDY DILLON
ANDY DILLON of The Sun on being Vince Champagne...his fear of Harry’s open car window...and a naked sauna with an unknown female...Have you ever worked in a profession other than football?
I worked on a building site labouring as a teenager but got sacked after having a fight with the foreman. Construction's loss is football's gain I like to think. I have also had various jobs including filing the insides of the telescopic legs of fold up fishing chairs to make them fit and buttering bread at the Student Union while at University. I also made cash as a ...
Tags: Andy Dillon, Chelsea, frank lampard, FWA Q&A, Harry Redknapp, journalism, Paolo di Canio, The Sun, West Ham, Wimbledon
THE FAX BEHIND THE MOST SENSATIONAL TRANSFER IN BRITISH FOOTBALL
Football writers are reluctant to reveal their sources, but here JACK IRVINE tells the details behind the exclusive story of the ground-breaking transfer of former Celtic striker Mo Johnston to Rangers.By JACK IRVINE
The Sun has been a potent force in Scottish journalism since its launch in 1987.
Tags: Bill McMurdo, Celtic, David Murray, Graeme Souness, Ibrox, Jack Irvine, journalism, Majorca, Maurice Johnston, Rangers, Sands charity, The Daily Record, The Sun, Walter Smith
FWA Q&A: Shaun Custis
Shaun Custis (Chief Football Writer, The Sun) on being a theatre critic and a double-glazing salesman...being told by Fergie to work in Glasgow...and dog day afternoon in South KoreaYour first ever job in journalism?
I did a week’s work experience on The Hexham Courant where my first byline read Theatre: By Shaun Custis which will have some of my colleagues spitting out their sparkling water in disbelief. On my last day one of the reporters left a note for his mate warning him not to touch my typewriter because he had wired it up to 10,000 volts.
Tags: FWA Q&A, Shaun Custis, The Sun
FWA Q&A: Neil Custis
NEIL CUSTIS of The Sun on a dodgy leek...falling out of a shopping trolly...and being mistaken for Lee Westwood...Your first ever newspaper?
It was called the Alnwick Advertiser in Northumberland. The circulation was 3,000 and falling and it’s now a pizza restaurant. I did everything from darts to country shows. I remember covering two country shows and 11 leek shows in one day. There was real controversy at one of the leek shows as someone was found out for using tippex on the base of his leek to smooth out a scratch. They left the leek out on the ...
Tags: Neil Custis, The Sun
FWA Q&A: Charlie Wyett
The Sun's Charlie Wyett on making sausages...being Pretty...and appearing in EastEnders (sort of)Your first ever newspaper?
Wisbech Standard in Cambridgeshire.
Have you ever worked in a profession other than journalism?
No. Joined the profession after completing A levels in 1989. Used to work in my family's butchers shop as a teenager, spending Saturday mornings making sausages but only ever wanted to be a sports writer.
Tags: Charlie Wyett, FWA Q&A, The Sun
FWA Q&A: Bob Harris
We talk to The Sun's Bob Harris about East German food, Swiss ringers and, er, In the Night Garden.First ever newspaper?
The now defunct Birmingham Planet
Have you ever worked in a profession other than journalism?
Cricket beckoned until serious injury which also cost me my “other” job which was basically playing cricket for a company once a week with the title of assistant progress manager.
Tags: Bob Harris, FWA Q&A, The Sun
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