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Sun’s Custis among latest to join SJA

The Sun‘s chief football writer, Shaun Custis, and the newspaper’s photographer Dickie Pelham, rowing writer Liz Wray, leading sports PR Mark Schmid and Times Online’s sports editor Robert Galster are among the latest colleagues to sign up as members of the Sports Journalists’ Association.

A warm, SJA 60th anniversary welcome to our latest batch of new members, whose applications to the Association were agreed at the January committee meeting earlier this week.


Richard Pelham, photographer for The Sun
Shaun Custis, The Sun‘s chief football writer
Louise Klein, freelance photographer for AFP
Liz Wray, rowing writer
Matthew Syed, sports feature writer at The Times
Robert Galster, Sports Editor, Times Online
Alexandra Willis, staff writer, Ace Magazine
Lawrence Hourahane, BBC Wales
Oliver Aaron, photographer
Danny Coyle, international rugby news
George Sweeney, Belfast-based photographer
Mark Schmid, director at PR firm Citygate Dewe Rogerson

All existing members’ subscriptions are now due – £30 for London-based members, £20 for those outside London. Please help keep the Association’s costs down: don’t force us to send you a reminder to pay up. An outline of the advantages of SJA membership can be found by clicking here.

By signing up today, you can save yourself at least £50 in the cost of two tickets for the SJA’s British Sports Journalism Awards, being staged in London on March 17. Bookings are being handled by Start2 Finish – contact details at the bottom left of this page.


Join the SJA today – click here for details and membership application form