Play the Game: Kirsten Sparre

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Knowledge Bank articles by this author:

The Olympic Games as a force for social change

Promises and reality in foreign reporting from the Olympics

The Chinese gamble so much on football that no one wants to watch it

Claims and counter-claims in Volleygate

The Dangers of Sports Journalism

News articles by this author:

FIFA's new governance committee under fire for lack of transparency and independence

Mega-event politics: Ukraine stops killing of stray dogs before EURO 2012

New study claims doping is bigger threat to sport than match-fixing

Mega sports events are coming back to Western countries - temporarily

Sums of bribes for top FIFA officials exposed at hearing in Brazil

Surveying media coverage of Play the Game: Another story about football

Former FIFA vice-president caught on tape talking about cash gifts

Play the Game delegates call on the IOC to gather all stakeholders to draft a code for good governance in sport

Jens Weinreich and Andrew Jennings win 2011 Play the Game Award

FIFA's Director of Communications promises to speak at the next Play the Game conference

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Kirsten Sparre

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Freelance Journalist

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Play the Game

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Born 1964 Jobs April 2005: News coordinator, Play the Game January 2003 - March 2005: Editor Danish Gymnastics Federation and freelance journalist with assignments for amongst others the Danish Union for Journalists and Centre for Journalism and Further Education. August-December 2002: Project officer with the The Mid-career Institute for Journalists, Aarhus 1998-2002: Centre for Journalism and Further Education, responsible for research projects on journalism 1995: Lutheran World Service, Nepal, preparation of annual report 1992-94: Herning Folkeblad (local newspaper), summer temp filling in for local editors on vacation 1990: Bornholmeren (local newspaper) all-round journalism 1985-86: Ikast Avis (local newspaper) all-round journalism Education 1998: Ph.D in Peace Studies from Bradford University, UK. Dissertation on potential peacemaking roles for journalists 1992: Diploma from European University Centre for Peace Studies, Austria 1991: Masters of Art in Peace Studies from Bradford University, UK. 1990: Journalist from the Danish School of Journalism Publications (a selection) Politiet som kilde (The police as a media source), CFJE-report no. 4, 2002Den glade journalistik. Om mediernes dækning af de kendte (Feelgood journalism. Media coverage of celebrities) 2001, Forlaget Ajour (with Lars Kabel) "Megaphone diplomacy in the Northern Irish Peace Process", Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, summer 2001 "Conceptualising changes in war reporting", S+F - Vierteljahresschrift für Sicherheit und Frieden, heft 3/2000, Hamburg Universität, Tyskland

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