Sam McClure


Sam McClure is an Australian sports journalist who works for the Nine Network, The Age, 3AW and Crocmedia.

Career

McClure began his media career at 3AW as a broadcasting assistant in 2011, before moving into the role of a news reporter at the station and presenting a regular sports news segment alongside Gerard Healy on the program Sports Today. He later became a sports writer for The Age newspaper in Melbourne.
At the 2015 AFL Media Association awards, McClure won the Clinton Grybas rising star award.
In 2017, McClure moved radio networks and became a reporter on 1116 SEN breakfast program Garry, Tim and Hamish, where he works alongside Garry Lyon, Tim Watson, and Hamish McLachlan.
McClure became a regular football reporter on the Seven Network, featuring on Saturday afternoon prematch program The Kick, and presenting Footy Central, a Friday and Saturday post match report. He also appears alongside Tim Watson, Wayne Carey, and Luke Darcy on Talking Footy.

Personal life

McClure studied a Bachelor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. He is the son of late sports journalist Geoff McClure, also a reporter for The Age. Like his father, McClure is a Carlton Football Club supporter.