Categories and Media Requirements

This award recognises the best portfolio of data led sports journalism that uses data to inform, explain and enhance storytelling during the eligibility year.

With audiences more informed than ever, sports data and the creative storytelling around it play an increasingly important role in providing insight, context and understanding. This category celebrates journalists who use data intelligently to reveal new perspectives and present complex information in ways that are clear, engaging and accessible. The category is open to individuals who produced work across writing, broadcast, audio, digital and emerging formats.

Entries should demonstrate an effective and original use of sports data, that brings fresh insight, going beyond surface-level statistics. Clarity of explanation, making complex information easy to understand. Strong storytelling, using data to support compelling narratives. Impact, enhancing audience understanding or engagement.

A supporting statement of up to 300 words should outline the use of data, the journalistic approach and the significance of the work.

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.