Lee Clayton (journalist)

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Lee Clayton
Born1970-present
OccupationSports Journalist
Years active1986

Lee Clayton (born 1970) is an English sports journalist who is Global Publisher of Sport at the Daily Mail & General Trust, which publishes the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and MailOnline . He was formerly Head of talkSPORT radio [1] He is an avid West Ham supporter [2] and season ticket holder and co-authored Farewell to Upton Park: The Official Celebration of West Ham United's home 1904–2016. [3]

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Aged 16 he joined The Sun in the mail room, before being offered a role on the sports desk, despite never attaining any formal journalistic qualifications. He attended Brampton Manor Comprehensive School in East London and joined News International in 1986. In 1987, he appeared in The News, the in-house newspaper, as one of "News International’s Rising Stars".

He joined the Sunday Mirror in 1994 before becoming chief football writer on the Daily Star later that year. He became sports editor of the Sunday People [4] in 1999 before joining The Daily Mail in 2004, [5] where he spent 14 years as group head of sport and won numerous awards.

In his first 18 months as head of talkSPORT he was praised by the Sports Journalist Association as the station won the 'Sports Network of the Year' award for “making a number of innovative changes in this past year to diversify their audience and enhance their credibility”. [6]

Clayton contributed to the Debrett's 500 list in 2014 and 2015 [7] and was on the judging panel for the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. [8] He also contributed to the novel Forgive Us Our Press Passes. [9]

He has appeared on various television programmes including Sky Sports' Soccer Saturday , Hold the Back Page , Dream Team and BBC's pilot episode of Match of the Day Two. In radio broadcasting he has presented numerous programmes for talkSPORT, including the Sunday Breakfast show with former Republic of Ireland striker Tony Cascarino and ex-Chelsea captain Andy Townsend. [10] In 2011 he was previewed as one of the 20 most influential people Sky Sports have worked with for its 20th anniversary. [11] [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Mayhew, Freddy (7 September 2018). "Mail head of sport Lee Clayton moving to Talksport to head up radio station".
  2. ↑ "An Interview with Lee Clayton (Head of sport for the Daily Mail)". 24 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Farewell to Upton Park by Lee Clayton". Waterstones .
  4. ↑ Greenslade, Roy (19 August 2002). "People, get ready". The Guardian .
  5. ↑ "2 minutes with: Lee Clayton Incoming sports editor, Daily Mail". PRWeek . 9 July 2004.
  6. ↑ "TalkSPORT named Network of the Year at Sports Journalism Awards". 25 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Debrett's 500 list, sports personalities, contributed to by Lee Clayton". Debrett's.
  8. ↑ "Sports Personality of the Year: BBC award shortlist named". BBC Sport . 26 November 2012.
  9. ↑ Forgive Us Our Press Passes, contributed to by Lee Clayton
  10. ↑ "TalkSPORT announce new pairing of Lee Clayton and Tony Cascarino". Archived from the original on 2015-07-19. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
  11. ↑ "Sky Sports 20 Years, 20 Stories, featuring Lee Clayton" (PDF).
  12. ↑ "Football Writers Interview with Lee Clayton".
  13. ↑ "2013 British Sports Journalism Awards – Sports Journalists' Association".
  14. 1 2 "2014 British Sports Journalism Awards – Sports Journalists' Association".
  15. ↑ "2015 British Sports Journalism Awards – Sports Journalists' Association". 22 February 2016.
  16. ↑ "2016 British Sports Journalism Awards – Sports Journalists' Association".
  17. ↑ "TalkSPORT and BBC win at Sports Journalism Awards". 25 February 2020.
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