SCOTLAND-based Mark Woods has been named among the nominees in this year’s British Sports Journalism Awards.
The awards – run by the Sports Journalists’ Association – will see the winners announced on the 22nd of next month.
Woods has been shortlisted in the category, investigative sports reporter.
It was for work about basketball.
The shortlist reads, as follows:
Cricket journalist
Mike Atherton – The Times
Scyld Berry – The Telegraph
Lawrence Booth – Daily Mail
Nick Hoult – The Telegraph
Jonathan Liew – The Telegraph
Paul Newman – Daily Mail
Football journalist
Oliver Kay – The Times
Jonathan Northcroft – Sunday Times
Mark Ogden – The Independent
Rory Smith – The Times
Daniel Taylor – The Guardian
Jeremy Wilson –The Telegraph
Henry Winter – The Times
Investigative sports reporter
Owen Gibson – The Guardian
Nick Harris – Mail on Sunday
Ed Hawkins – Freelance
Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnot, David Collins, the Insight Team – Sunday Times
Jeremy Wilson – The Telegraph
Mark Woods – Freelance
Laureus sports website
Daily Mirror
MailOnline
Sky Sports
The Guardian
The Telegraph
The Times
Multi-media sports package
Racing UK – AP McCoy’s retirement
Sky Sports – The Ashes
The Guardian – Rugby World Cup
The Telegraph – Rugby World Cup
Regional journalist
Jon Colman – Cumbrian Newspapers
Mark Douglas – NCJ Media
Phil Hay – Yorkshire Evening Post
James Olley – Evening Standard
Chris Wathan – Media Wales
William Watt –The Gazette (Blackpool)
Rugby journalist
Duncan Bech – Press Association
Mick Cleary – The Telegraph
Alan Dymock – Rugby World
Stephen Jones – Sunday Times
Rob Kitson – The Guardian
Daniel Schofield – The Telegraph
Special sports edition
Bath Chronicle
Cambridge News
Daily Mirror
Rugby World
Sunday Times
The Telegraph
Specialist correspondent
Alastair Down – Racing Post
Martha Kelner – Mail on Sunday/Daily Mail
Derek Lawrenson – Daily Mail
Matt Majendie – The Independent
Lee Mottershead – Racing Post
Jeff Powell – Daily Mail
Specialist sports website
Boxing News
Racing UK
Sporting Intelligence
Sports columnist
Michael Calvin – Independent on Sunday
Matt Dickinson – The Times
Paul Hayward – The Telegraph
Hugh McIlvanney – Sunday Times
Brian Reade – Daily Mirror
Matthew Syed – The Times
Sports feature writer
Paul Hayward – The Telegraph
Ian Herbert – The Independent
Oliver Holt – Mail on Sunday
Martin Samuel – Daily Mail
Matthew Syed – The Times
David Walsh – Sunday Times
Sports news reporter
Neil Ashton – Daily Mail
Matt Lawton – Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday
Malcolm Moore – Financial Times
Ben Rumsby – The Telegraph
Charles Sale – Daily Mail
Martyn Ziegler – Press Association
Sports scoop
Sam Cunningham – Daily Mail
Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnot, David Collins, the Insight Team – Sunday Times
Alison Kervin – Mail on Sunday
Matt Law – The Telegraph
Charlie Wyett – The Sun
Martyn Ziegler – Press Association
Young sports writer
Teddy Cutler – Newsweek Europe
Jack Gaughan – Daily Mail/Mail Online
Daniel Johnson – The Telegraph
Alex Keble – Freelance
Alan Smith – The Guardian
Tim Wigmore – Freelance
Sports writer of the year
To be announced on the night
Sports newspaper of the year
To be announced on the night