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Adrian Van-Klaveren

Our new recruit


We’ve just appointed our first sports editor. Mihir Bose will join us from the Daily Telegraph, where he’s been a sports news writer for the past 10 years, .

Mihir BoseWhy are we creating this job? Well, we know some people are passionately interested in sports news, some are completely uninterested and others have a fairly general interest in the most important and interesting things happening in the sports world.

Although people are more polarised in their level of appetite for sport than many other subjects, it is undoubtedly an important part of the news agenda – not only major events such as the Olympics and the World Cup, but also the social, cultural, business and political significance which sport carries.

Mihir’s job will be to get under the skin of sport – both to break stories and to explain what’s really happening, whether it’s a story about money and the Premiership, the build up to London 2012 or alleged cheating in cricket.

We want people to find out what’s happening in the world of sport from the Â鶹Éç – just as much as they do for politics or world affairs. This new job is a key building block in our commitment to sports journalism and we think it’s going to make a real difference to what people see, hear and read from the Â鶹Éç about sports news.

Adrian Van-Klaveren is deputy director, Â鶹Éç News

Amanda Farnsworth

North Korea feedback


Last week I asked how much coverage you thought we ought to give to the North Korea story. Thank you all very much indeed for all your responses - it really is useful to get at least some sort of feel for what you think.

Â鶹Éç Six O'Clock News logo I promised to give you the information about audience reaction on this story after a few days, so here it is.

For the Six O'Clock News, the story that stood out for over half the audience (54%) was: World leaders condemn North Korea nuclear test and this was also the story they wanted to know more about (39%).

Six thousand people wrote into the Â鶹Éç News website in the first 24 hours after the story broke. The story was also the most read on the website all of Monday.

Thanks again.

Amanda Farnsworth is editor of Inside Sport.

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