Mihir Bose

Mihir Bose (born 12 January 1947^[1]) is a British Indian sportswriter and journalist, who was the BBC's sports editor until 4 August 2009.^[2]

Early life

Bose is of Bengali origin. Brought up in Bombay, India, he came to the UK in 1969 to study to become a Chartered Accountant. After spending a year studying engineering at Loughborough University,^[3] Bose worked in business journalism.

Early career

He started his career at LBC Radio, before joining the Sunday Times. He moved from business journalism to investigative sports reporting and moved to the Daily Telegraph in 1995, where he started the paper's Inside Sports column.

BBC

He left the Telegraph to become the BBC's Sports Editor in October 2006.^[4]

Bose has also presented on radio and television, including BBC Radio 4's Financial World Tonight, the South Asia Report on the BBC World Service and What the Papers Say for Channel 4.

As the BBC's head sports writer his output included a regular blog on the Corporation's website.

On 4 August 2009 Mihir Bose resigned from the BBC for personal reasons.^[2] It was reported that Bose was unhappy with the forthcoming move of the BBC Sports Department from London to Manchester, which would have required him to relocate.^[5] He was replaced as Sports Editor by David Bond.^[6]

Inside World Football

Mihir now writes a blog for the football related website insideworldfootball.biz^[7]

London Evening Standard

Bose contributes weekly pieces to the London Evening Standard.

Books

Bose has written 22 books on a range of subjects, including A History of Indian Cricket and Manchester Disunited. His History of Indian Cricket was the first book by an Indian writer to win the prestigious Cricket Society Literary Award in 1990. His study of sports and apartheid, Sporting Colours, was runner-up in the 1994 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.^[8] Bose has also written a book in the form of a comprehensive history of India's film industry called Bollywood: A History.^[9] Bose authored "The Aga Khans" (published 1984 by World's Work Ltd., The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey) which unflatteringly detailed the lives of the first three Aga Khans. The 4th Aga Khan suppressed any further publication of this book by bringing legal action against Bose. No mention is made of this work in any of Bose's subsequent writings or web publishings since.

Awards

Bose has won the following awards:^[10]

• 1990 Magazine Publishing Award - Winner Business Columnist of the Year
• 1990 Cricket Society — Silver Jubilee Literary Award Winner A History of Indian Cricket
• 1997 English Sports Council & Sports' Writers Association - Winner Inaugural Sports Story of the Year
• 1999 Sport England & Sports Writers' Association - Winner Sports News Reporter of the Year
• 2001 British Press Awards Finalist - Sports Reporter of the Year
• 2003 Asian Achievers Award / Asian Voice & Gujarat Samchar - Winner Media

Personal life

Bose lives in west London with his wife, Caroline Cecil, who runs a financial PR consultancy. He has a daughter, Indira.

References

1. ^ Who's Who 2008
2. ^ ^{a b} "Sports editor Bose quits the BBC". BBC. 4 August 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8184378.stm. Retrieved 4 August 2009. 
3. ^ Silver, James (29 January 2007). "Interview 2007". London: Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/jan/29/mondaymediasection.sport. Retrieved 2009-10-03. 
4. ^ Mihir Bose becomes BBC's Sports Editor - www.asiansinmedia.org
5. ^ London Evening Standard - Bose resigns over Manchester move
6. ^ "David Bond is named as the new BBC Sports Editor". BBC. 18 December 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/front_page/8421609.stm. Retrieved 2 April 2010. 
7. ^ Mihir Bose blog on insideworldfootball.biz
8. ^ Mihir Bose Biography - MihirBose.com
9. ^ Guardian Book Review - The Guardian
10. ^ Mihir Bose:Writer, Broadcaster & Journalist. Official Website^{[dead link]}

External links

• Official website
• Mihir Bose blog on bbc.co.uk

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Preceded by Position created	Sports Editor of the BBC 2006–2009	Succeeded by David Bond

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Name	Bose, Mihir
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Short description	British Indian sportswriter and journalist
Date of birth	12 January 1947
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