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Olympics editor and cycling writer to leave Telegraph ? Sports ...

Jacquelin Magnay, the paper?s Olympics editor and one of the most senior women sports journalists working in Britain, and Brendan Gallagher, the cycling correspondent, are among the latest sports desk casualties of the ?restructuring? exercise being undertaken at the Telegraph.

Jacquelin Magnay: had inside track on Olympic stories for Telegraph

Jacquelin Magnay: she had inside track on 2012 London Olympic stories for the Telegraph

These follow the departure, as we reported last week, of the long-standing sports editor of the Sunday Telegraph, Peter Mitchell.

The highly regarded Magnay had been recruited to the Telegraph after London was awarded the 2012 Games, following a long and highly decorated career as a senior sports correspondent at the Sydney Morning Herald, where she had performed a similar role for the 2000 Olympics.

Only last week, Magnay was at the SJA?s British Sports Journalism Awards, where one of her stories was short-listed for the Sports Scoop of the Year prize.

Also understood to be leaving from the sports desks are Brian Stater, who has been a fixture on the subs desk for nearly 30 years, Matt Leach and Rod Gilmour.

Separate from the ?restructuring?, the paper has also lost its award-winning sports news correspondent, Paul Kelso, who has joined Sky News, while Paul Ackford, the Sunday Telegraph?s respected rugby columnist, has recently retired.

More than 80 journalists are expected to leave the newspapers in this latest merging of daily, Sunday and website operations, the biggest cull of its type at the titles since 2008. Some staff are opting to take voluntary redundancy. ?These culls always seem to follow the Olympics,? one demoralised staffer at Victoria told sportsjournalists.co.uk.

The Telegraph group?s management is supposed to be recruiting 50 digital staff, ?but the expectation is that they will be first-jobbers, straight from college, with no experience of contacts, all on 20 grand a year,? said the source.

Brendan Gallagher: covered cycling and rugby

Brendan Gallagher: covered cycling and rugby

Earlier reports that the sports department might escape the worst of the latest job cuts appear badly misplaced, even though the sports pages, in the newspaper and online, are regarded as the economic engine room of the Telegraph?s commercial operations.

Magnay was not available for comment, but is understood to have plans for a venture of her own, and to remain based in London.

The departure of Gallagher, who has been on the staff for almost 20 years, appears odd given the bright new digital future planned for the news organisation, since he offered a prolific output on Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Britain?s most successful Olympic sport, as well as his coverage of rugby union, on which he regularly contributed unique pnline articles, webchats and live updates for the Telegraph website.

He, too, was unavailable to comment, as was Ben Clissitt, the Telegraph?s head of sport.


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Source: http://www.sportsjournalists.co.uk/olympics/olympics-editor-and-cycling-writer-to-leave-telegraph/

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5,000 NYC pay phones will take you back to 1993

NEW YORK (AP) ? Want to journey to a grittier time in New York City's not-too-distant past, when the murder rate was sky-high, Times Square was a crossroads of crime and porn, Starbucks had yet to arrive, and hardly anyone owned a cellphone?

A project designed to promote an art exhibit has turned 5,000 Manhattan pay phones into time machines that take callers back to 1993, a pivotal year in the city's art, culture and politics.

Pick up a receiver on the rarely used phones that still dot the New York streetscape, punch 1-855-FOR-1993 and you will hear a notable resident recounting what life was like on that block 20 years ago.

"We liked, creatively, the idea of using a sort of slightly broken, disused system as the canvas of this project," said Scott Chinn of Droga5, the ad agency behind the campaign for an exhibit titled "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star."

An eclectic mix of artists, writers, food and fashion stars, and others has been recruited to reminisce, including chef Mario Batali, actor Chazz Palminteri, porn performer Robin Byrd and former Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott, who threw a no-hitter in 1993.

The narrators describe a New York that was dirtier, bloodier, raunchier and less gentrified than today ? but also an easier place for a talented young person to gain a foothold.

Batali says in his sound bite that opening a restaurant was easier in 1993 when he debuted his first restaurant, Po.

"You didn't have to have a rich daddy or an investor or put together a team or anything like that," he says. "It's sad to watch the cost of business push the real individualist entrepreneurs out of the game."

Bike shop owner Dave Ortiz remembers when the city's Meatpacking District, now home to trendy restaurants, nightclubs and pricey boutiques, was the wild, wild West.

"The rats were huge," he says. "They were as big as cats, so you had to walk in the middle of the street. It's amazing what they turned it into. It's cool but it's lost its, like, authenticity."

Rudy Giuliani was elected New York City mayor in 1993 and promised to crack down on crime and make the city more livable. The number of homicides in the city ? 1,960 in 1993 ? had already dropped from a high of 2,245 in 1990 but has plunged steeply since then. (There were 414 in all of last year.)

The city's AIDS crisis peaked in 1993 at 12,744 diagnoses. Terrorists staged the first attack on the World Trade Center. The look of the city has changed dramatically as national retailers have replaced independent merchants. New York City's first Starbucks opened in 1994.

"There was a presence of a kind of downtown underground scene which you really don't experience in New York anymore," recalled Gary Carrion-Murayari, curator of the exhibit at the New Museum featuring 161 works, many intended to shock with sexual imagery.

Lutz Bacher's "My Penis," for example, repeats a video snippet from the 1991 Florida rape trial of William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, in which Smith testifies about the organ in question.

In Pep?n Osorio's "The Scene of the Crime (Whose Crime?)," a blood-soaked sheet covers what appears to be a corpse. Four nude mannequins join hands and stare into space in Charles Ray's "Family Romance." Political issues are tackled head-on in works like Sue Williams' "Are you Pro-Porn or Anti-Porn?"

The exhibit and accompanying pay phone campaign run through May 26.

Pay phones in the Times Square area feature X-rated talk-show host Byrd describing the neighborhood before Disney musicals and theme-park stores made it safe for tourists.

"The area wasn't really as dangerous as people thought it was in those days," Byrd says. "Because most of the bums that you thought were bums on the street were really undercover cops."

She adds: "It was a great time. It's too bad it's changed because now it's very pasteurized, homogenized, and it looks like Vegas."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/5-000-nyc-pay-phones-back-1993-161611560.html

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