James Gray

Experience

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  John Lewis

  Oct 2009 - Jul 2010

  Sales Assistant

  High end customer service and sale of electronic goods in the Audio and Television Department

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  The Saint

  Jul 2012 - Jun 2013

  Sports Editor

  Commissioning, planning, designing, laying out and writing copy for St Andrews' leading student newspaper, as well as taking my place on the executive committee in the strategic planning of the future of the newspaper.

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  Ones to Watch Media

  May 2013 - Nov 2013

  Sports Editorial Assistant

  Selecting and uploading the cream of student journalism from all over the UK, as well as blogging for the OTW site on occasion.

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  Edinburgh Evening News

  Jun 2013 - Jun 2013

  Work Experience

  Work experience on the Edinburgh Evening News, including writing page ledes, researching local issues, submitting copy through the in-house editing system, and vox popping.

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  FootyMatters.com

  Aug 2013 - Aug 2014

  Features Writer

  Writing features articles for a leading football website, twice weekly, working to editorial briefs on a wide variety of topics.

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  The Cricketer Magazine

  Mar 2014 - Mar 2014

  Work Experience

  2 weeks work experience at the world's best-selling cricket magazine

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  Cricinfo

  Jul 2014 - Aug 2015

  Reporter

  Covering all of Scotland's home international matches in the fast-paced environment of ball-by-ball reporting as well as working in England for some additional tournaments.

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  Sportsbeat/News Associates

  Sept 2014 - Sept 2015

  Staff reporter at a very busy sports news agency working simultaneously on contracts with the Cricket Paper, the Football League Paper, the Rugby World Cup, the British Olympic Association and many more. Studying for my NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Sports Journalism, including modules in Shorthand, Media Law, and sports reporting.

  • Intern

    Jul 2015 - Sept 2015

  • Trainee

    Sept 2014 - Jun 2015
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  Oldham Chronicle

  Nov 2014 - Feb 2015

  Newsdesk

  Work experience on the news desk. Worked a lot on the education supplement.

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  Express Newspapers

  Jul 2015 - Aug 2018

  Sports journalist

  Creating and producing sports copy for express.co.uk. I also wrote exclusive interviews, broke stories that set the agenda for the sporting conversation nationally and went out to cover some of the biggest sporting events of the calendar.

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  Press Association

  Aug 2016 - May 2017

  Barnet FC correspondent

  Covering Barnet FC matches and providing on-the-whistle match reports to a national agency as well as quotes rewrites after interviewing both managers

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  LOVE SPORT Radio

  Mar 2018 - Jul 2019

  I spent six months co-present Brian Moore's daily four-hour sports talk show, before taking over my own one-man show in the lunchtime slot.I also fulfilled the role of web editor, achieving 600 per cent growth year-on-year on the website and successfully syndicating content to a wide range of national and local titles. Appearing both as a guest and a co-host on sports talk radio shows

  • Senior broadcast journalist

    Sept 2018 - Jul 2019

  • Freelance radio co-host

    Mar 2018 - Sept 2018
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  Tennis Unfiltered (formerly the Love Tennis Podcast)

  Aug 2018 - now

  Podcaster

  Host and co-producer of a Britain's No 2 tennis podcast, boasting thousands of unique listeners every month

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  Self Employed

  Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

  Freelance sports journalist

  Writing and editing on a freelance basis for a number of different titles, including the Metro, the Sun and Eurosport.Working across multiple sites and titles allows me to experience lots of very different working methods and strategies, as well as growing my contacts book and producing a wide range of content.

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  The i Paper

  Jan 2020 - now

  Breaking major exclusives across the sporting world, including tennis, rugby, football, F1 and boxing, as well as covering summer and winter Olympic Games and producing in-depth analysis of major sporting stories. Providing in-depth analysis, interviews and news on football, F1, boxing and tennis across print and online platforms for one of the UK's fastest-growing and most trusted media brands.

  • Sports news correspondent

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Senior sports journalist

    May 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Sports journalist

    Jan 2020 - Apr 2021