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Joshua Jones

Sport Reporter

Joshua Jones is a sports reporter with The Sun, joining the newspaper in 2018 after completing his NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Sports Journalism at News Associates. Before starting with the SunSport team, Joshua spent time on placement with , , and the Leicester Mercury. He writes a range of articles for SunSport including exclusive interviews, breaking news stories, features and reports from live sporting events including football, tennis and the Olympics.   In 2024, Joshua worked at his fifth Wimbledon for SunSport and was once again on Centre Court for the men’s singles final to live blog Carlos Alcaraz’s win over Novak Djokovic. Just days later, Joshua travelled out to France where he was a key member of the SunSport team at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Before the Games got underway, his exclusive interviews with skateboarder Andy Macdonald, climber Hamish McArthur, Team GB hockey captain Hollie Pearne-Webb and breaking’s Kid Karam - including his very own solo on video - were part of SunSport’s brilliant Olympics pullout. Then in Paris, Joshua witnessed 11 Team GB medals, covered 17 different sports including the men’s USA basketball gold, athletics’ Noah Lyles and swimming’s Leon Marchand, toured the Eurosport studios and was tasked with the . As well as filing copy for online and the print edition, Joshua was regularly on camera for SunSport video content for the website, social media and YouTube channel - interviewing fans, giving news updates, testing the River Seine water and, most importantly, eating Paris’ biggest and most expensive pain au chocolat!   In 2023, Joshua went to Portugal for an exclusive interview with Fabio Paim - Cristiano Ronaldo’s former team-mate who ended up watching the superstar train through the window of his prison cell. That led to a spread in the paper, three online articles and a . Joshua has also had exclusive interviews with Rio Ferdinand, William Gallas, Luke Chadwick, Matt Jarvis, Gary Cahill, Katie Swan, Hazem Naw (Syrian tennis player who had a bomb explode on the next court), Geir Jordet (football psychologist on England’s Euro 2024 penalties), Jon Rahm’s psychologist and former bomb disposal expert Joseba Del Carmen as well as Jamaican bobsled star Dudley Stokes, football manager Darren Moore and boxer Denzel Bentley for Black History Month.   He has also been a guest and regular contributor on talkSPORT 2. Joshua was nominated for the NCTJ Student Sports Journalist of the Year in 2018.