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'''Ben Dirs''' is a sports journalist on the [[bbc.co.uk|BBC news website]]. He writes about and provides live [[blogging]] on a variety of sports including boxing, golf and rugby<ref name="pressgazette">{{cite web |url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/37866 |title=Live blogging Big Brother: A new take on journalism or mindless rubbish?
'''Ben Dirs''' is a sports journalist on the [[bbc.co.uk|BBC news website]]. He writes about and provides live [[blogging]] on a variety of sports including boxing, golf and rugby<ref name="pressgazette">{{cite web
|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/37866
|title=Live blogging Big Brother: A new take on journalism or mindless rubbish?
|date=11 June 2007
|date=11 June 2007 |publisher=[[Press Gazette]] |accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref> for people who cannot watch live television coverage, often for people who live abroad.
|publisher=[[Press Gazette]]
|accessdate=7 June 2014
|deadurl=yes
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714165354/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/37866
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}}</ref> for people who cannot watch live television coverage, often for people who live abroad.


[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] published his first book called ''We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships'' with [[Tom Fordyce]] on 3 July 2009, charting the madcap escapades that resulted from trying to become the world champion in something.<ref name="amazon">{{cite book |url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Could-Be-Heroes-Championships/dp/0230736157 |title=We Could Be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships |edition=paperback |year=2009|publisher=[[Pan Macmillan]]|pages =256 |isbn=0230736157|accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="Unabridged">{{cite book |url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Could-Heroes-Tom-Fordyce/dp/0330517384 |title=We Could Be Heroes |edition=Unabridged|year=2010|publisher=[[Pan Macmillan]]|pages =320 |isbn=0330517384|accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref>
[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] published his first book called ''We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships'' with [[Tom Fordyce]] on 3 July 2009, charting the madcap escapades that resulted from trying to become the world champion in something.<ref name="amazon">{{cite book |url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Could-Be-Heroes-Championships/dp/0230736157 |title=We Could Be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships |edition=paperback |year=2009|publisher=[[Pan Macmillan]]|pages =256 |isbn=0230736157|accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="Unabridged">{{cite book |url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Could-Heroes-Tom-Fordyce/dp/0330517384 |title=We Could Be Heroes |edition=Unabridged|year=2010|publisher=[[Pan Macmillan]]|pages =320 |isbn=0330517384|accessdate=7 June 2014}}</ref>

Revision as of 15:42, 30 October 2016

Ben Dirs is a sports journalist on the BBC news website. He writes about and provides live blogging on a variety of sports including boxing, golf and rugby[1] for people who cannot watch live television coverage, often for people who live abroad.

Macmillan published his first book called We Could be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships with Tom Fordyce on 3 July 2009, charting the madcap escapades that resulted from trying to become the world champion in something.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ "Live blogging Big Brother: A new take on journalism or mindless rubbish?". Press Gazette. 11 June 2007. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ We Could Be Heroes: One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships (paperback ed.). Pan Macmillan. 2009. p. 256. ISBN 0230736157. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  3. ^ We Could Be Heroes (Unabridged ed.). Pan Macmillan. 2010. p. 320. ISBN 0330517384. Retrieved 7 June 2014.