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James Desborough is a show business writer, media commentator and PR adviser who works in Los Angeles, New York and London. As a correspondent he has interviewed celebrities from the worlds of sports, politics and entertainment. James has appeared on major TV networks, print publications and online websites worldwide. He was named the Show business Reporter Of The Year at the 2009 British Press Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://newscareers.co.uk/meet-news-international/awards/ )〕 In 2014 he won two awards at the Southern California Journalism Awards - Online Personality Profile Article and Online Entertainment Feature. He also collected the runner up prize for the Online Entertainment News Category. In 2013, he was nominated as Entertainment Journalist Of The Year at the 55th So Cal Journalism Awards and was runner-up in the international news report category at the 55th SoCal Journalism Awards. == Early career == Desborough started work at the regional newspaper the ''Barking & Dagenham Post'' as a news reporter in 1994. The newspaper's past reporters include renowned editor Phil Hall, who later became the editor of ''News of the World''. In 1995, Desborough moved to Channel One TV – the Associated Newspaper's foray into local television. The station was a cable-only news and entertainment channel. After starting on the News desk, Desborough was promoted to entertainment reporter and later Showbiz Editor. The channel's senior executives included Nick Pollard, who later went on to head up Sky News, ITN news editor Peter Wallace and ''New York Daily News'' editor Martin Dunn. Desborough worked for the channel's daily entertainment show ''The Biz'', presented by (Julia Caesar ). During his time there he produced special programs and feature length interviews on Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Full Monty and Bon Jovi. Desborough produced and presented specials on the film industry. The channel's other well-known reporters included Thomas Moore and Paul Brennan, TV host Ruth England and BBC Sports host Chris Hollins. After Channel One TV closed in 1998, Desborough worked as a continuity host for ITV2 and presented a late night ITV1 London series ''Wired'', which covered London's social scene. Desborough worked as a freelancer diary reporter on the London showbiz and social scene from 1999 to 2000. In 2000, Desborough was hired by World Entertainment News Network (WENN) as the News Editor in London by CEO Jonathan Ashby. During that time he worked alongside former Sun reporter and author Bill Coles. Desborough was hired by The People newspaper in summer of 2001 replacing their existing show business reporter Sean Hoare, who left to join ''The News Of The World''. In the final weeks of his employment at WENN, allegations in an article published by Salon.com claimed that he had fabricated a quote by Sir George Martin relating to the health of George Harrison. WENN sold a story to ''The Mail'' On Sunday claiming that Martin said Harrison was close to death. The interview was conducted by WENN reporter Christian Koch. The story appeared under the byline of Katie Nicholl in The Mail On Sunday on 22 July under the headline: "George Harrison Is Close to Death Says '5th Beatle' Martin". After the story appeared Martin denied giving quotes about Harrison. In the next few months many more media outlets reported that Harrison's condition was worsening. Harrison died in November 2011. It was afterwards revealed that Harrison and wife Olivia had tried to keep details of the illness a secret. Later Olivia admitted, in a book and Martin Scorsese documentary about George Harrison's life – both titled ''George Harrison: Living in the Material World'' – that her husband had spent the summer months of 2001 preparing for his death. He spent time at a hospice and his last summer in Fuji. Time magazine revealed how: "Harrison eventually surrendered to throat and lung cancer. He and Olivia spent a last lovely summer in Fiji, preparing for the end and taking stock of their life together." Harrison died four months after the Mail On Sunday article on 29 November 2001. Despite the original story being accurate, Desborough was subsequently awarded the "Can We Hear the Tape?" award for verbatim quotes at the mock honors Shafta Awards by fellow tabloid reporters as a result of this piece. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Desborough」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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