Chris Bascombe

Chris Bascombe
Nationality British
Occupation Sports 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

References

  1. ↑ "Chris Bascombe". Telegraph. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Liverpool reporter attacked for joining Sun publisher". pressgazette.co.uk. Press Gazette. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  3. 1 2 "Bascombe scoops double at Merseyside awards". PressGazette. 14 June 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
  4. 1 2 Greenslade, Roy (18 September 2007). "Liverpool fans wrong to attack football writer joining News of the World". Guardian. Retrieved 2009-09-23.
  5. ↑ "Liverpool's 23-year boycott of The Sun newspaper". bbc.co.uk. bbc. 24 February 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Telegraph makes Mersey move for Bascombe". sportsjournalists.co.uk. Sporting Journalists. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  7. ↑ Krishnaiyer, Kartik (28 October 2009). "EPL Talk Podcast: Chris Bascombe". epltalk.com. 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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