
Our new recruit
- 18 Oct 06, 11:33 AM
We鈥檝e just appointed our first sports editor. Mihir Bose will join us from the Daily Telegraph, where he鈥檚 been a sports news writer for the past 10 years, .
Why are we creating this job? Well, we know some people are passionately interested in sports news, some are completely uninterested and others have a fairly general interest in the most important and interesting things happening in the sports world.
Although people are more polarised in their level of appetite for sport than many other subjects, it is undoubtedly an important part of the news agenda 鈥� not only major events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, but also the social, cultural, business and political significance which sport carries.
Mihir鈥檚 job will be to get under the skin of sport 鈥� both to break stories and to explain what鈥檚 really happening, whether it鈥檚 a story about money and the Premiership, the build up to London 2012 or alleged cheating in cricket.
We want people to find out what鈥檚 happening in the world of sport from the 大象传媒 鈥� just as much as they do for politics or world affairs. This new job is a key building block in our commitment to sports journalism and we think it鈥檚 going to make a real difference to what people see, hear and read from the 大象传媒 about sports news.
Adrian Van-Klaveren is deputy director, 大象传媒 News