Adam Houghton has joined the TDN's burgeoning team in Europe in the role of associate editor.
Based in Yorkshire, Houghton has spent the last eight years working for Timeform and Sporting Life. He was shortlisted for the HWPA Racing Writer of the Year award in 2022.
The TDN's senior vice president Gary King said, “We are delighted to welcome Adam to the TDN's European team. The wealth of experience and knowledge he gained working for Timeform/ Sporting Life will only enhance our editorial coverage. Adam's appointment is also a testament to our focus on TDN Europe, and to build on the significant increase in readership we have had there in recent years.”
Houghton joins the TDN Europe team of Emma Berry, Alayna Cullen Birkett and Sean Cronin in the UK, Brian Sheerin in Ireland, Tom Frary in France, and Heather Anderson and Gary King in America. The line-up was further bolstered last year by the appointment of multiple award-winning sports journalist and author Paul Hayward as a regular columnist. The team is also supported by the top-class editorial and advertising departments of TDN America.
Houghton said, “I am delighted to have joined TDN and hope I can prove a worthy addition to a team I've long admired from afar. Their collective voice provides what I consider to be the definitive view on all things bloodstock, from the sales grounds to the stallion yards, plus everything in between.
“I've spent the last eight years working for Timeform – and latterly with Sporting Life as well – and the part of the job I've always enjoyed the most is getting out and meeting people in the industry, telling their stories and those of the horses who have put them on the map.
“In my opinion this is where TDN's coverage on a global scale is unparalleled and that is just one of the reasons why the opportunity to join the team was so exciting to me. I can't wait to get started and hope to become a familiar face at the sales, studs and yards in the coming months and years.”
European editor Emma Berry added, “Since the launch of our dedicated European publication in 2015, we have endeavoured to broaden our reach across Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and beyond, and it has been hugely encouraging to see the readership figures soar.
“We are all looking forward to working with Adam. To have a journalist of his quality on the team will be of huge benefit as we continue to deliver unrivalled bloodstock coverage 363 days of the year.”
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