A very warm welcome to the website of the Sports Journalists’ Association
Watched over by Jim Rosenthal, Sebastian Coe, the chairman of LOCOG, collects the JL Manning Award for services to sport from SJA vice chairman David Walker
The Sports Journalists’ Association of Great Britain – the SJA – is the world’s largest national organisation for professional sports journalists.
Sir Michael Parkinson, the President of the SJA, presents the Doug Gardner Trophy – the Association’s highest honour – to Hugh McIlvanney
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 the British Olympic Association and British Paralympic Association; LOCOG, the 2012 Games organisers; UK Sport; and internationally, the IOC, Sport Accord and NFL Europe.
Recent commercial partners and sponsors include BP, The National Lottery, Ladbrokes, the Laureus Foundation 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, in the hope of 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 occasions in central 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, Jessica Ennis, Sir Chris Hoy, Rebecca Adlington, Tony McCoy and Paula Radcliffe.
Click here to read reports from our awards going back over several years.
The 2012 SJA British Sports Awards were staged on December 6. Click here for the report.
You can view a photo gallery of the event by clicking here.
In March each year, our SJA British Sports Journalism Awards dinner is an important occasion to support and promote our own profession.
We endeavour to make it a glittering event where among our guests are prominent figures from sport, the media and politics, with colleagues from sports broadcasting, the sports desks of the national newspapers and many of the world’s leading sports photographers also attending, as we recognise excellence among our colleagues’ work through the previous year.
For reports on past British Sports Journalism Awards, click here, where you will also find 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
