Ahead of the new F1 season, Formula One correspondent for PA Media, Philip Duncan shares his experience of reporting on the most recent season amidst the backdrop of the pandemic. Be it bubbles, quarantines and regular testing – last season was a complete new experience for Philip and these health and safety practises will continue for this coming season.

File photo dated 15-11-2020 of Mercedes AMG F1’s Lewis Hamilton (GBR) celebrates on the podium after winning the Turkish Grand Prix to secure his seventh world championship.

We are delighted to announce that PA video content will now be showcased on our next generation wire platform, Create.

We’ve been looking forward to upgrading the Create platform for many months and the change means that PA customers can now instantly access video content linked to relevant stories.

In his latest blog post, PA Media’s Chief Sports Reporter Jamie Gardner talks about how, despite audience taste for sport content changing over the years, there still remains a great need for credible sports reporting that can cut through the noise of an increasingly saturated market of sport platforms and publishers.

The beginning of a new year is when we would typically be making plans for the months ahead, such as holidays, gigs, festivals and tickets for sporting events.
Whilst plans for spectators of sport remain on hold; our sports photographers continue to capture the action, albeit under very different circumstances.
The Covid-19 guidelines for live sporting events have brought many challenges, which our photographers have met face on with the continued dedication to delivering the best possible service for our customers. Online health checks, venue temperature checks, social distancing, face masks and bubbles (sometimes bubbles within bubbles) have become the new ‘normal’.
Photographer passes to sports events are limited; however, our strong relationships with customers have allowed us to continue to deliver without too much disruption.
Despite the challenges, our photographers have grasped the opportunity to document sport in the Covid-era with both hands.

2020 has been a challenging year in so many ways. As what also seems like the longest year on record draws to a close, I wanted to round up some of the highlights from one of our newest services, Press Release Distribution.

This new service has grown by more than 125% this year despite the backdrop of Covid-19, with 20 new press release partners joining us and a huge upswing in the number of ad hoc releases sent out.