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Sun, Mar 25 Mihir Bose is BBC's first ever sports editor By ANI Sunday March 25, 11:22 AM London, Mar.24 (ANI): The BBC has recently appointed Mihir Bose as its first ever sports news editor. Bose, 60, has moved to the Corporation after a dozen years as a columnist at the Daily Telegraph. He has also found the time to write no less than 21 books on a variety of subjects. Born and educated in India, Bose first studied engineering at Loughborough University when he originally moved to the UK, but he gave that up after a year and trained to be a chartered accountant. Under pressure from his family, Bose returned to India but found that he did not enjoy accountancy one little bit, so it was back to the UK and a career in journalism. By 1989, he was a features writer and sports columnist on the Sunday Times and was then lured to the Daily Telegraph to launch a new feature called Inside Sport. In his first big interview to the Guardian newspaper after taking over as BBC Sports Editor, Bose was asked, unsurprisingly, whether he agreed with the former director general Greg Dyke who famously opined that the Beeb was "hideously white". Bose said that: "This is a white-majority country, so I don't see why there shouldn't be a majority of white people at the BBC. I think it's a question of whether you are good enough or not. I would hate to think I got my job because of my sun-tan". As he pointed out, interest in sport is ever-growing and he will be expected not only to generate original journalism, but also to provide "analysis and context" across the range of news outlets. He explained to the Guardian that: "The BBC recognises that sports coverage has changed. They haven't covered sports news in the way newspapers have been covering it - in the way I've been doing it myself for a long time". In fact, Mihir Bose has a strong reputation as an investigative reporter and it is probably this fact that swung the job his way. As the Guardian points out, he will clearly be expected by his new bosses to come up with more than a few scoops and, with the 2012 London Olympics, the shortcomings of sport's governing bodies, increasing foreign ownership of British football clubs, as well as the hardy perennial of corruption in various sports, from football to horse racing, there is plenty of fertile territory for him to explore. (ANI)
