Entries for the 2014 British sports journalism awards are now open. The forms (see here) have been sent out by the Sports Journalists’ Association (SJA) to sports desks.
There are 25 categories, including a new website award, and a section of broadcast awards which, for the first time, require people to enter their work.
Other innovations include reduced entry fees, online entry submissions and a new category for investigative sports reporting. Short-listed entrants for the regional sportswriter award will each receive a free ticket to attend the SJA’s awards dinner on 23 March.
The SJA’s chairman David Walker, the Daily Mirror’s sports editor, said: “We cannot emphasise enough that all our awards – in sportswriting, photography and now broadcasting – are open to all, whether their work is published on a local or national newspaper, by an international agency, or on a website.”
The closing date for entries is 26 January 2015. This year’s awards, sponsored by BT Sport, are being held in aid of the nominated charity of the SJA’s president, Michael Parkinson, Prostate Cancer’s Men United appeal.
Source and more information: SJA
