A very warm welcome to the website of the Sports Journalists’ Association
The Sports Journalists’ Association of Great Britain – the SJA – is the world’s largest national organisation for professional sports journalists.
Hugh McIlvanney's lifetime achievement was recognised with a special presentation that climaxed our British Sports Journalism awards evening in March 2010, with SJA President Sir Michael Parkinson handing him the Doug Gardner trophy
Our members include writers and photographers, editors, cartoonists or broadcasters, whether they work for national or regional newspapers, specialist magazines, in print or online, on television or on radio.
Our President is the writer and broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson, while our SJA committee comprises a selection of national newspaper sports editors, tabloid and broadsheet, past and present, top sports photographers, and well-known correspondents in print, broadcasting and online.
We enjoy strong partnerships with a range of public agencies, sports federations and some of the biggest corporations in the world, including UK Sport, the London 2012 organisers, BP and Victor Chandler.
We also work closely with many sports governing bodies, advising on media management matters and helping to promote their events and activities to our members, generating improved press coverage.
Making headlines: the BP-sponsored Olympic Question Time, staged in London in April 2011, attended by nearly 200 journalists and guests
Each year, we stage two of the most prestigious awards events on the calendar at gala events in the heart of London.
Our SJA British Sports Awards has a history dating back to 1949, and the December lunch regularly attracts some of the biggest names in British sport, past winners including Jenson Button, Sir Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington and Paula Radcliffe.
Click here to read our report of the 2010 awards lunch.
The 2011 SJA British Sports Awards are to be staged on December 7.
Our prestigious SJA British Sports Journalism Awards are an important occasion to support and promote our own profession, where we recognise excellence among our colleagues’ work through the previous year.
For a report on the most recent British Sports Journalism Awards, staged in March 2011, click here, which has further links to lists of our past winners and photo galleries of some of the best of British sports photography.
Elsewhere on this website, you can also find details of how to join the SJA, to enjoy the benefits of membership, which include significant cash discounts on tickets for our events, the annual SJA Yearbook, and a range of other services.
- For the SJA’s latest on sports journalism and sports journalists, click here
- Find out more about the SJA and how to join by clicking here
