Celebrated Guardian sports writer Frank Keating began his career on the SNJ (From Stroud News and Journal)
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Celebrated Guardian sports writer Frank Keating began his career on the SNJ
11:29am Sunday 27th January 2013 in News By Tamash Lal, News editor
CELEBRATED Guardian sports journalist Frank Keating, who has died aged 75, began his career as a reporter on the Stroud News & Journal in the 1950s.
Keating, a widely respected sports writer known for his inventive use of language, joined the SNJ in 1956 before joining the Hereford Times aged 20.
He got a job as a sub editor on the Guardian in 1963.
Click on the link to read his obituary in Friday's Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/25/frank-keating1
