Dylan Howard

Dylan Howard
File:Dhoward.jpg
Occupation	Sports Journalist
Website	http://au.news.yahoo.com/

Dylan Howard is a sports reporter for Seven News in Melbourne. His main focus is the AFL

Early Career

He began his career at The Geelong Advertiser, the 6 day a week paper for the city of Geelong. He wrote an opinion page for the Saturday edition, Sport Section, titled "Howard's Way".

Dylan was approached by Darren Lyons, celebrity photographer and papparazzi agency owner of Big Pictures to become Chief of Staff for the group, based in New York, for a short period of time.

Dylan also spent some time working on regional Australian TV stations

Channel 7

Dylan joined Channel 7 in 200x as a Sports Reporter. His primary reporting focus is AFL, but he occasionally presents the sports report on the 6 o'clock Channel 7 Melbourne news.

3AW

Howard is a boundary rider for 3AW's Saturday Night Football coverage

Controversy

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

• Dylan was the purchaser of the video tape from a pub in Dublin, Ireland, that implicated Brendan Fevola 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

Illicit Drugs in the AFL

• Michael Braun. Jason Akermanis wrote an article 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 , revealed that the player who Jason was referring to was Michael Braun 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" . Her asking price was AUD3,000. Channel 7 decided to purchase the documents. At or around 4:15 Friday 24th 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.. 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. Howard, on Tuesday 28th 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". 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 ...". On an apology "Uh, well he hasn't apologised to the AFL or to the other people that heard that report ... To clear it up. And he knows what to do, and we're expecting him to do it, and I'm sure that there are people at his network who expect him to do it." .