Dylan Howard

Dylan Howard
Born	Australia
Occupation	Journalist

Dylan Howard is a leading journalist and media executive who has appeared on Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, CNN, Fox News, HLN, CBS News, ABC's Nightline, Good Morning America, MSNBC, Inside Edition, the BBC and Britain's Sky News. He is a regular guest on HLN's prime-time program Issues With Jane Valez Mitchell.

As RadarOnline.com Senior Executive Editor, Dylan Howard reports breaking news, conducts celebrity interviews, delivers investigative reports and appears on a wide range of television and radio programs, as a news expert.

He is widely recognized as a dogged journalist who has broken countless stories across multiple topics.

Early career

Dylan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Deakin University in Australia.

He moved to the United States in January 2009 after an award winning stint as a television journalist for the Seven Network, based in Melbourne, Australia. Since, he has traded his time between New York and Los Angeles.

Dylan's 2007 report on the impending sacking of an Australian football coach was highly commended for a prestigious Quill Award - for excellence in Victorian journalism, in the Best TV News Report category.

Before he entered Hollywood ranks, Dylan also worked for Reuters Television in New York, The Geelong Advertiser and Southern Cross Television in Tasmania; the latter both Australian media outlets.

He began his career at The Geelong Advertiser, the six day a week paper for the city of Geelong. He wrote an opinion page for the Saturday edition, Sport Section, titled "Howard's Way" until his relocation to the United States.^{[citation needed]}

While at Southern Cross, Dylan obtained exclusive interviews with former Governor Richard Butler and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and his partner Mary Donaldson.

Dylan has also been published in the News of the World, Hello, Woman's Day, New Idea, Grazia, OK! Magazine, Men's Style, Alpha, RALPH Magazine, Loaded, M Magazine Dubai, In Touch and The Sunday Mail's Celebs On Sunday.

Channel 7

Dylan joined Channel 7 in 2005 as a Sports Reporter. His primary reporting focus was AFL, but during the summer months he would present the sports report on the 6 o'clock Channel 7 Melbourne news. Howard didn't have his contract renewed by Channel 7 in January 2009.^[1]

Controversy

Dylan has been involved in a number of controversies in his career at Channel 7:

• Dylan was on assignment in Ireland when it emerged star footballer Brendan Fevola had been 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^[2] Seven News purchased the video tape from a pub in Galway, Ireland.

Drugs in Sport

• Michael Braun. Jason Akermanis wrote an article ^[3] 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,^[4] revealed that the player who Jason was referring to was Michael Braun ^[5] 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".^[6] Her asking price was A$3,000. Channel 7 decided to purchase the documents. At or around 4:15 Friday 24 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.^[7] 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, after Howard admitted he inadvertently misspoke. Howard, on Tuesday 28 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".^[8] 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 ...".

RadarOnline.com

Dylan left Reuters in May 2010 after being approached to head RadarOnline.com. As its Senior Executive Editor, he leads the site's team of staff in their Los Angeles newsroom.

During his tenure, RadarOnline.com attained a new level of visibility in the world's media, after Dylan broke one of the biggest celebrity stories in recent time: the phenomenon of Oscar-winning director Mel Gibson blasting former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, in a series of racist and hate fuelled audiotapes. "RadarOnline's daily doses of the explosive Mel Gibson audio... has turned the site into a media powerhouse," wrote The Daily Beast.

So much so, the Washington Post profiled RadarOnline.com's rise as a major media player, while the Los Angeles Times noted; "Some of the world's biggest stories have raised the site's profile like the Gibson saga, which effectively cemented Radar's credibility in the world of celebrity." The New York Times added: "There's a lot to learn from RadarOnline's way of delivering and distributing stories."

References

1. ^ Channel 7 journalist Dylan Howard dumped over AFL scandal [Herald Sun] Published November 28, 2008
2. ^ Brendan Fevola home early Irish scrap next year's International Rules The Age Published December 10, 2006
3. ^ Jason Akermanis story Cycling can teach AFL on drugs fight Herald Sun Published 1 August 2007
4. ^ ASADA: no leak with us Herald Sun Mark Stevens Published 08 August 2007
5. ^ BRAUN NOT DRUG TAINTED: FATHER FootyHeads article by Nino Bucci Published August 7th, 2007
6. ^ Seven's ethics in the gutter By Patrick Smith Fox Sports Published August 28, 2007
7. ^ Court extends injunction on AFL details By Katie Bice and AAP NewsCorp Published August 30, 2007
8. ^ Howard's interview on 3AW's Sports Today program 3AW Broadcast August 28, 2007

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