My name is Jed Court and I am a 23-year-old British sports journalist from Canterbury and currently based in Paris. I studied Sports Journalism at Staffordshire University and graduated with a 2:1 in 2014. I have been working in the French capital since, on both a freelance basis and on short-term contracts at Eurosport and Agence France Presse.
I joined the Eurosport commentary team as an intern in June 2014, and then worked on a 10-month contract before switching to freelance work. At Eurosport I wrote and read the daily news bulletins on the 24-hour news channel, as well as for the three-minute bulletins broadcast on the main Eurosport channels. I also did some live commentary on German and Polish football.
In 2015 I worked for seven months on the AFP English sports desk in Paris. This helped me hone my writing and sub-editing skills while working for a renowned global news agency. I also covered golf's 2016 French Open.
I wanted to be a sports commentator from a very young age, even commentating on primary school matches into a casette recorder... The less said about that the better. I've gained experience in this field while working for Ma Chaine Sport as a freelancer. I commentated on various sporting events for MCS, from French and Portuguese football to basketball, volleyball and handball.
While at uni I had experience working at The Guardian, The Non-League Paper and Signal Radio Stoke and had work published in various local newspapers across the United Kingdom. I also ran the blog A Sporting Insight for nearly two years between 2011-2013 with more than 80,000 pageviews.
I joined the Eurosport commentary team as an intern in June 2014, and then worked on a 10-month contract before switching to freelance work. At Eurosport I wrote and read the daily news bulletins on the 24-hour news channel, as well as for the three-minute bulletins broadcast on the main Eurosport channels. I also did some live commentary on German and Polish football.
In 2015 I worked for seven months on the AFP English sports desk in Paris. This helped me hone my writing and sub-editing skills while working for a renowned global news agency. I also covered golf's 2016 French Open.
I wanted to be a sports commentator from a very young age, even commentating on primary school matches into a casette recorder... The less said about that the better. I've gained experience in this field while working for Ma Chaine Sport as a freelancer. I commentated on various sporting events for MCS, from French and Portuguese football to basketball, volleyball and handball.
While at uni I had experience working at The Guardian, The Non-League Paper and Signal Radio Stoke and had work published in various local newspapers across the United Kingdom. I also ran the blog A Sporting Insight for nearly two years between 2011-2013 with more than 80,000 pageviews.
Football, cricket and golf are ever-present in my day-to-day life, and I hold considered interests in tennis, rugby union, snooker, athletics and darts.
Many more examples of my work than are shown on this page can be requested by contacting me.
Many more examples of my work than are shown on this page can be requested by contacting me.
E-mail: jedgore@hotmail.com | Twitter: @jedgore