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Welcome to the Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain's website

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The SJA is an association for British-based professional sports journalists, whether writers or photographers, editors, cartoonists or broadcasters.

David Welch, of the events sub-committee, introduces The Princess Royal to sportswriter Sue Mott

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 are generously sponsored and supported by a range of partners, led by UK Sport and Sky Bet, as well as working closely with the British Olympic Association and the London 2012 organisers.

Each year, we stage two of the most prestigious awards events on the calendar, our Sports Awards and Journalism Awards, plus a series of intimate lunches with top figures in sport, members' golf days and other social events.

Martin Samuel gets his hands on the John Bromley Trophy for the SJA Sports Writer of the Year for the third consecutive time at our British Sports Journalism Awards in March 2008

We publish an annual SJA Handbook, distributed to everyone within our rapidly growing membership, plus major sports desks and the country's leading PR agencies; we produce a Bulletin quarterly for all our members; and we issue frequent e-mail updates covering the Association's activities and the latest news in sports journalism.

We offer a range of other services for our members, including legal advice, money-off offers and negotiation over accreditation requirements at home and abroad, together with our internationally recognised membership card.

We also act as consultants to the organisers of major sporting events on media requirements, including providing media liaison for the British Olympic Association at the Beijing Olympic Games.

Some of the SJA's members hard at work at the Beijing Olympics

The SJA website is a key communication tool for members and the broader public, attracting an average of 20,000 hits every day, and rising. These include many journalism students - in 2007, we launched a special section that outlines all the sports-related courses on offer within the UK, plus useful advice articles.

While 2008 marked the SJA's 60th anniversary, with its formation dating back to 1948 and the last London Olympics, we are keenly aware that the demands on our expertise and services over the next few years towards the 2012 Games will be greater than at any time in our existence.

Joe Calzaghe, left, the 2006 SJA Sportsman of the Year and winner of the 2007 President's Award, with Victoria Pendleton and Lewis Hamilton, the 2007 SJA Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year

The SJA's 60th birthday party, staged in London in November 2008, was a widely praised event celebrating 60 years of sport and sports journalism, as well as Britain's 2008 sporting successes, attended by nearly 500 members and their guests from six decades of the organisation's history, including our Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, herself a former winner of our Sportswoman of the Year Award.

We hope that you find this website's content of use and interest - our news section is updated daily, so keep returning each day for more news of our activities and those of our members and the industry.

For the latest SJA News, click here.

Click here for details of the 2008 SJA Sports Journalism Awards
Click here for details of the 2008 SJA Sports Awards

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