Dylan Howard
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Dylan Howard is a sports reporter for Seven News in Melbourne. His main focus is the AFL [1]
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[edit] Early career
He began his career at The Geelong Advertiser, the 6 day a week paper for the city of Geelong. He still writes an opinion page for the Saturday edition, Sport Section, titled "Howard's Way".[citation needed]
Dylan was approached by Darren Lyons, celebrity photographer and papparazzi agency owner of Big Pictures to become Chief of Staff for the group, based in New York, for a short period of time in 2002.[citation needed]
Dylan also spent some time working on regional Australian TV stations. He was a reporter and weekend sport presenter at Southern Cross Television in Tasmania. In that time, he obtained exclusive interviews with former Governor Richard Butler and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and his partner Mary Donaldson. Dylan has also worked at Prime News.[citation needed]
[edit] Channel 7
Dylan joined Channel 7 in 2005 as a Sports Reporter. His primary reporting focus is AFL, but he occasionally presents the sports report on the 6 o'clock Channel 7 Melbourne news. He was highly commended in the prestigeous 2007 Quill Awards - for excellence in Victorian journalism, in the Best TV News Report category. Howard was acknowledged for his breaking news report on the sacking of former Carlton coach Denis Pagan.
[edit] 3AW
Howard was a boundary rider for 3AW's football coverage. He was sacked by 3AW Station Manager, Graeme Mott[2], on September 3, 2007 in the fall out to the drugs scandal because of an article Howard wrote about "...comments he made in the Geelong Advertiser about 3AW and its management that weren't true. He didn't bother to check the story with anybody in management."[3]
[edit] Controversy
Dylan been involved in a number of controversies in his career at Channel 7
- Dylan was the purchaser of the video tape from a pub in Dublin, Ireland, that implicated Brendan Fevola in a fight with that pub's bartender, whilst he was a member of the All Australian team visiting Ireland for the International Rules Series[4]
[edit] Illicit Drugs in the AFL
- Michael Braun. Jason Akermanis wrote an article [5]for Melbourne's NewsCorp paper the Herald Sun, stating that he 'felt' that a player that was his direct opponent in a game earlier in one season, seemed able to run faster and had better recovery against him in another game later in that season. The implication was that Akermanis felt that this player was using a form of EPO Performance Enhancing Drug's. Jason didn't name the player in his article. Dylan's role in this issue became evident just days after this article was published. Dylan, who to date has yet to name his source[6] , revealed that the player who Jason was referring to was Michael Braun [7]a player for the West Coast Eagles.
- Medical records. The medical records of players from an AFL club were claimed to been found in the gutter outside a clinic by a woman. After allegedly attempting to return the documents to the clinic and finding that the gates were locked tried to ring all the media outlets in Melbourne to offer the documents, as a "public service" [8] . Her asking price was AUD3,000. Channel 7 decided to purchase the documents. At or around 4:15 Friday 24th August, 2007, Channel 7 started promoting on-air that it had a "huge story" related to AFL and drugs and would reveal this in their nightly news at 6pm AEST. Howard then went to air and named the club that these two players played for. A court injunction was sought to suppress the name and club mentioned in the records and was granted by Justice Kim Hargrave of the Supreme Court of Victoria.[9]. Later on the 24th August, during half time on Channel 7's Friday Night Football, Howard participated in an on-air interview, conducted by Tim Watson where he claimed that after contacting the AFL, they had given Howard "approval" to go to air with the story. This interview went live, via Fox Sports, to NSW and Queensland and on the CCTV at the stadium, Telstra Dome, but was not in the program that aired on the Seven Network during the delayed coverage into Victoria, South Australia or Western Australia. Howard, on Tuesday 28th August, 2007, went on 3AW during the Sport's Today program and explained to Caroline Wilson that his comments on Friday night had been misinterpreted and that he had "apologised to those who misunderstood that at the time"[10]. The AFL CEO, Andrew Demetriou, then responded to Howard's interview on 3AW, saying that "... It's mischievous, he has re... , and we have asked him to apologise, given that it went to air in two states, and all Dylan Howard had to do was apologise. We will not be misrepresented, to people, about the AFL supporting a story that we've already said publicly we find obscene, abhorrent, the route of gutter journalism ...". On an apology "Uh, well he hasn't apologised to the AFL or to the other people that heard that report ... To clear it up. And he knows what to do, and we're expecting him to do it, and I'm sure that there are people at his network who expect him to do it." [11].
[edit] References
- ^ See Dylan speak to journo class YouTube From: classiestact October 24, 2006
- ^ Page 2 of article about the fallout on Dylan's report Seven ban to spill into finals series By Samantha Lane FairFax Published September 4, 2007
- ^ Dylan's article in The Geelong Advertiser [Geelong Advertiser] Published 1 September, 2007
- ^ Brendan Fevola home early Irish scrap next year's International Rules The Age Published December 10, 2006
- ^ Jason Akermanis story Cycling can teach AFL on drugs fight Herald Sun Published 1 August 2007
- ^ ASADA: no leak with us Herald Sun Mark Stevens Published 08 August 2007
- ^ BRAUN NOT DRUG TAINTED: FATHER FootyHeads article by Nino Bucci Published August 7th, 2007
- ^ Seven's ethics in the gutter By Patrick Smith Fox Sports Published August 28, 2007
- ^ Court extends injunction on AFL details By Katie Bice and AAP NewsCorp Published August 30, 2007
- ^ Howard's interview on 3AW's Sports Today program 3AW Broadcast August 28, 2007
- ^ Andrew Demetriou interview on 3AW's Sports Today program 3AW Broadcast August 28, 2007
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