Author Archive for: Rob Stewart

Our former Daily Telegraph journalist, Rob Stewart, spent a decade covering the ups and downs of football, cricket and rugby for a decade as the world-renowned national newspaper’s North East sports correspondent.
 
The role involved reporting on one of the UK’s newsiest and most competitive patches and dealing on a regular basis with some of sport’s best known personalities including Gareth Southgate, Kevin Keegan, Roy Keane, Graeme Souness, Sam Allardyce and the late great Sir Bobby Robson.
 
His spell with the Telegraph was one of the highlights of a 20-plus year spell in journalism which began in his hometown of Huddersfield in Yorkshire before he headed to the Hull Daily Mail as education correspondent, senior reporter and sub-editor before travelling around South East Asia and Latin America for almost two years.
 
That sabbatical was followed by stints with the Press Association, Newcastle Chronicle & Journal Group as deputy editor of its weekly papers and Bradford Telegraph & Argus as sports editor before returning to frontline duties with the Telegraph while also working on a freelance basis with Reuters, FIFA, Middlesbrough Football Club and Four Four Two magazine.
 
He moved to the South West with his family in 2015 and that was accompanied by a move to the Alzheimer’s Society national media team where for five years he spearheaded the dementia charity’s media activity in support of fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns which saw him work with TV stars such as Vicky McClure and Richard Madeley and football icons Sir Geoff Hurst and Gordon Banks.
 
Rob, who has also written a couple of football books, moved into the agency side of the PR world just before lockdown began in February 2020 when he worked with a wide range of clients covering house-building, strategic land development, housing associations and local authorities as well as a series of special campaigns, most notably turning the OurWorld Bristol initiative plans for Bristol Zoo into front-page news in the Bristol Post and securing national coverage in The Times.
 
Key skills: Media relations and earned media, media training, content creation, copywriting.