Categories and Media Requirements

This award recognises outstanding rugby journalism across 2025. Open to an individual journalist specialising in rugby, it celebrates authoritative news reporting, analysis and storytelling across writing, broadcast, audio and digital platforms.

The category is open to journalists working across writing, broadcast, audio, digital and emerging formats, and recognises high-quality rugby reporting, analysis and storytelling that informs, explains and adds context to the sport over time.

Entries should demonstrate:

• Strong rugby knowledge and insight
• High-quality news reporting across the season, including accuracy, judgement and sourcing
• Consistency and authority in covering rugby’s key stories, themes and developments
• Clarity and depth, helping audiences understand the sport beyond results
• Impact, shaping understanding, debate or coverage of rugby

Entries may consist of either:

• Up to five written articles.
• A broadcast/audio/video showreel of up to 10 minutes.
• A combination of written work and clips within these limits.