Adam Leventhal

About

Experienced, award winning journalist & broadcaster with 30 years experience in the industry.Now at The Athletic (a New York Times company) as a sports writer and documentary maker, presenting special episodes of The Athletic FC podcast with on location coverage of global stories.Winner of Football Writers Association European Sports Writer of the Year in 2024 & Best Audio Documentary at British Sports Journalists Association Awards for in 2022 and 2023 for coverage of Indonesia stadium disaster and reporting in aftermath of the Turkish earthquakes. Awarded Silver in same category in 2024 after documentary reporting in Guinea about the Nzerekore Stadium disaster. Successful & engaging corporate and online event host working with many clients in various fields in live arenas and on digital platforms including Web Summit, Sports Pro Live, EA Sports, Apple Store, Sports Interactive, TaylorMade Golf, Barclays Football, Transferroom and many more. Spent 16 years on Sky Sports News as reporter then presenter. Highlights include hosting live football events at Wembley and beyond, Wimbledon Tennis Championships and London Olympics studios, the investigative journalism strand Special Report and playing a key role on Transfer Deadline Days.As cricket correspondent for five years covered Ashes series in Australia and multiple global ICC tournaments and tours in India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, North and South America, West Indies and UAE.Tours included breaking global news stories regarding the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer at 2007 World Cup and the Mumbai terrorist attacks the following year.