John Mathews

John began his journalism career at the Windsor, Slough
& Eton Express newspaper in 1988. He worked there for six
years before joining BBC Ceefax, where he became Sports
Editor. John moved over to web publishing in 2000 for the
launch of the BBC Sport site.

As Special Events Editor, he helped launch more than 50
separate BBC websites on the Olympics, World Cup and
every major sports event.

Since turning freelance in 2005, he has worked for football's
governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA, in Canada, Peru and the
Netherlands, as well as the FIFA World Cups in Germany and South Africa, plus UEFA EURO 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. He has also covered Liverpool's UEFA Champions League home matches at Anfield for uefa.com.

John began teaching at JMU in 2006 and went full-time in 2008. He lectures in Online Journalism and Sports Journalism, and was the Producer of JMU's World Firefighters Games Media Crew, along with being one of the Editorial Directors of this website.

Email: J.Mathews@ljmu.ac.uk