Categories and Media Requirements

This award recognises high-quality sports journalism produced for regional or local audiences, celebrating journalists whose reporting, features or investigations inform, reflect and serve their communities. Entries may include news reporting, feature writing or investigative journalism, and should demonstrate strong editorial judgement, originality and impact within a regional or local sporting context.

Entries should demonstrate:

• High standards of reporting and writing
• Strong local knowledge and relevance
• Original journalism, including investigations or exclusive reporting where applicable
• Clarity and accuracy, serving the needs of a regional audience
• Impact, such as informing the community, driving debate or holding institutions to account

Entries should include five separate published articles, which may include reporting, features or investigations, an up to 500-word citation, detailing the journalist’s regional focus, the significance of the stories covered, how the work demonstrates quality, originality and impact during the eligibility year.