UK: Sports Journalists' Association launches sports newspaper The Rugby Paper
Posted by Alisa Zykova on September 26, 2008 at 8:20 AM
A new sports newspaper The Rugby Paper will be launched this Sunday as a full-color "up-market" tabloid focusing on local and national rugby events, according to the Sports Journalists' Association (SJA). The paper will be edited by ex-chairman of the SJA David Emery. The Rugby Paper will feature columns by Jeremy Guscott and Jeff Probyn. Former Sunday Times journalist Nick Cain will be in charge of reporting.
The new paper will cost £1.50 and will be sold throughout England and Wales.
Source: Sports Journalists' Association
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