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British Sports Journalism Awards The British Sports Journalism Awards is an annual ceremony organised by the Sports Journalists' Association that recognise the best of sports journalism in Britain in the previous calendar year. The awards are widely considered the BAFTAs of the ...

are given annually in a number of categories. The category "Specialist Correspondent of the Year" is awarded for sports writing. From 2016, it excluded football, cricket and rugby union correspondents, who had their own separate categories. Records date back to 2005.

Specialist Correspondent of the Year winners

* 2018: tbc * 2017:

Sean Ingle Sean Ingle is a British sports journalist. He is currently the chief sports reporter and columnist for ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer''. He was previously the newspaper's athletics correspondent and online sports editor. Early life and edu ...

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The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

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Observer An observer is one who engages in observation or in watching an experiment. Observer may also refer to: Computer science and information theory * In information theory, any system which receives information from an object * State observer in con ...

* 2016: Sean Ingle – The Guardian and Observer * 2015: Alastair Down –

Racing Post ''Racing Post'' is a British daily horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting publisher which is published in print and digital formats. It is printed in tabloid format from Monday to Sunday. , it has an average daily circulation of 6 ...

* 2014: Paul Mahoney – Freelance * 2013:

Henry Winter Henry Winter (born 18 February 1963) is an English sports journalist. He is currently the Chief Football Writer for ''The Times'', and previously a Football Correspondent for ''The Daily Telegraph''. Education Winter was educated at Westmi ...

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The Telegraph ''The Telegraph'', ''Daily Telegraph'', ''Sunday Telegraph'' and other variant names are popular names for newspapers. Newspapers with these titles include: Australia * ''The Telegraph'' (Adelaide), a newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia, publ ...

* 2012:

Michael Atherton Michael Andrew Atherton (born 23 March 1968) is a broadcaster, journalist and a former England international first-class cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman for Lancashire and England, and occasional leg-break bowler, he achieved the ca ...

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The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

* 2011: Michael Atherton – The Times * 2010: Henry Winter – The Telegraph * 2009: Henry Winter – The Telegraph * 2008: Michael Atherton – The Times * 2007: Kevin Garside – The Telegraph * 2006: Doug Gillon – The Herald * 2005:

Matt Dickinson Matt Dickinson is a film-maker and writer who is best known for his award-winning novels and his documentary work for National Geographic Television, Discovery Channel and the BBC. Dickinson was one of the climbers caught in the 1996 Mount Ever ...

– The Times

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