Chris Bascombe

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Chris Bascombe
NationalityBritish
OccupationSports journalist

Chris Bascombe is a North West football reporter for The Daily Telegraph.[1]

Bascombe worked at the Liverpool Echo for seven years, whilst there he won Sports Writer of the Year in the North West for five successive years.[2] He is also the recipient of the 'Merseyside Journalist of the Year' and the 'Sports Journalist of the Year' award at the Merseyside Media Network Journalism Award.[3] He was presented the award by Bill Kenwright.[3]

In 2007 Bascombe moved to the News of the World. The move angered some Liverpool fans as the paper was the Sunday stablemate of The Sun newspaper,[4] boycotted in Liverpool following its coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.[5] When some fans made violent threats to Bascombe,[2] he received support from other fans and the football club, whilst the attack was described by Roy Greenslade in The Guardian as "frankly stupid" and "completely at odds with the facts"[4] Following the closure of the News of the World, Bascombe joined The Daily Telegraph in 2011.[6]

Bascombe was the ghostwriter of Jamie Carragher's autobiography Carra.[6][7]

Works[]

  • Best XI Liverpool - co-author.[8]
  • Carra: My Autobiography. ISBN 0552157422. - ghostwriter.

References[]

  1. ^ "Chris Bascombe". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Liverpool reporter attacked for joining Sun publisher". Press Gazette. 17 September 2009. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Bascombe scoops double at Merseyside awards". Press Gazette. 14 June 2006. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  4. ^ a b Greenslade, Roy (18 September 2007). "Liverpool fans wrong to attack football writer joining News of the World". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 September 2009.
  5. ^ "Liverpool's 23-year boycott of The Sun newspaper". BBC News. 24 February 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Telegraph makes Mersey move for Bascombe". Sporting Journalists. 20 September 2011. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  7. ^ Krishnaiyer, Kartik (28 October 2009). "EPL Talk Podcast: Chris Bascombe". EPL Talk. Retrieved 30 December 2012.
  8. ^ Bascombe, Chris; Judd, Nick; Lyttleton, Ben; Moynihan, Leo; Tomkins, Paul (19 December 2012). Best XI Liverpool. Calm Publishing. ISBN 978-0957129153.


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