Simon Peter Barnes Net Worth

Simon Peter Barnes Net Worth is
$7 Million

Simon Peter Barnes Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Simon Barnes is an English journalist. He was Chief Sports Writer of The Times until 2014, and also wrote a wildlife opinion column in the Saturday edition of the same national newspaper.Barnes was educated at Emanuel School, and after beginning his journalistic career on local newspapers in Britain, he travelled to Hong Kong, where he wrote for travel magazines and the South China Morning Post. After his return to Britain, he became a sports writer for The Times, being promoted in time to the position of Chief Sports Writer. He is also an acknowledged specialist writer on the environment and wildlife. He is the author of 16 books including three novels and the best-selling How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher. His latest book, Birdwatching With your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong, was published in 2011. Barnes has also appeared in a number of programmes on BBC Radio 2, including a reading of his book, How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher.Barnes lives in the English county of Norfolk with his family and five horses. He was on The Times team at the 2012 London Olympics, the seventh summer Games that he has covered for the newspaper. In March 2009 he was runner-up in the Sports Journalists' Association's 'Sports Columnist of the Year' award, an award he won in 2008.In June 2014 Barnes was unexpectedly sacked by The Times after 32 years' continued employment, the newspaper having informed him it could no longer afford to pay his salary. Speculation was intense in some sections of the media for the real reason being Barnes's outspoken views expressed in his wildlife opinion column that blamed illegal activity by red grouse shooting interests on the continued persecution and near extinction of the hen harrier in England. 

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