Mr Newman said Balding's body of work "over the last 13 years speaks for itself".
However, Balding took exception to comments he made about her sexuality and appearance in the article.
The BBC lost the rights to horseracing - Balding's specialist sport - earlier this year.
"You have to have a plan B, " said Craig Balding, founder of the blog cloudsecurity.org.
He was clean-shaven, balding with short hair, and was wearing a high visibility BA jacket.
Most did not recognise his balding, bearded face, despite its frequent appearances on television.
He looks the part, too, with his tiny frame, balding head and professorial glasses.
Surveillance video shows a thin, balding man walking out of the gallery with the bag in hand.
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McCririck was let go last year after Channel 4 unveiled its new presenting team, headed by Clare Balding.
A. at the time, got great buzz for his unrecognizable work as balding, chubby movie executive Les Grossman.
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Balding first became aware of a problem after spotting a lump on her throat while watching herself on TV.
Gonggrijp thin and balding, with a soft voice has known Assange well for several years.
You want to pay your taxes to a balding, bespectacled old curmudgeon, preferably overweight and incapable of making eye contact.
This goateed, incipiently balding white-collar drone is put in the hospital by a game of darts, and then goes home.
Not long ago, it was celebrity bosses whose balding pates and bulging waistlines filled the covers of America's news magazines.
In an expensive silk shirt and dark trousers, the balding Mr Montesinos sat staring ahead for more than five hours.
Standing in the audience was Francis Lee, a short and balding electronics executive with a complicated relationship with the computer mogul.
The BBC received 1, 477 complaints from viewers over the remarks, prompting Balding to issue an apology for any offence she had caused.
Balding told the PCC that she was not demanding special treatment, but just wanted to be treated the same as everybody else.
Over the past two weeks Balding has been praised for her contribution to the BBC's coverage of Olympic swimming and equestrian events.
Sports presenter Clare Balding is to front Channel 4's horseracing coverage but has confirmed she will continue to work for the BBC.
The short, balding Buquet wore dark-tinted glasses and was shackled in court.
McCririck was dropped as a pundit for Channel 4 Racing when the broadcaster unveiled its new presenting team, headed by Clare Balding.
Animal lovers, including the BBC horseracing presenter Clare Balding, have been making their feelings of horror known in large numbers via Twitter.
How can anyone resist this 145 pound, five-foot-five, balding piece of manliness?
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Julian was a thin man of sixty-three, balding, a typewriter repairman who worked out of his spare bedroom and kept to himself.
Speaking to the BBC News website, Balding revealed she had written to the newspaper's editor John Witherow, receiving what she deemed an unsatisfactory reply.
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