£2 Talk – Football Writing: The View from the Press Box, Nick Szczepanik

Nick Szczepanik is an acclaimed sports journalist and a lifelong Brighton fan with more than 30 years’ experience of writing about football. His byline has appeared above football reports in every national daily paper. He is the author of Brighton Up: The Inside Story of Brighton & Hove Albion’s Journey From Despair to Triumph and the Premier League. He has also written on American football for The Independent and Sunday Times, and baseball, tennis and many other sports for The Times.

You’ll hear about:

• What happens behind the scenes to get football reports into your newspaper or onto your preferred website.
• Why football reporting is more difficult than you thought.
• Why life as football reporter mostly involves lots of hanging around followed by concentrated moments of desperate panic.

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