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Mail Sport receives 21 nominations on the business Oscars

  • The shortlist for the British Sports Journalism Awards has been introduced
  • The sensible Mike Dickson has been nominated after he handed away in January
  • Dickson labored for the Daily Mail for 33 years, overlaying tennis and cricket

Mail Sport has been shortlisted a staggering 21 instances on the business Oscars, together with a poignant nomination for the sensible Mike Dickson.

Dickson sadly handed away whereas overlaying the Australian Open for the Daily Mail after 33 years of working as tennis and cricket correspondent. Along with racing correspondent Dominic King, Mike is nominated for the Specialist Correspondent award on the SJA British Sports Journalism Awards.

Mail Sport has additionally been listed for Sports Content Organisation, Sports Newspaper of the Year and Digital Publisher.

Oliver Holt is as soon as once more nominated for Sports Columnist, soccer editor Ian Ladyman is nominated for characteristic author of the yr and there are double nominations for Matt Hughes and Aadam Patel.

Kathryn Batte is nominated for her protection of Women’s Sport and Charlotte Daly is among the many nominations for social media journalist, together with her interviews with Mike Tyson and Tyson Fury.

The brilliant Mike Dickson (pictured) has been nominated for the Specialist Correspondent award at the SJA British Sports Journalism Awards

The sensible Mike Dickson (pictured) has been nominated for the Specialist Correspondent award on the SJA British Sports Journalism Awards

Dickson sadly passed away while covering the Australian Open for the Daily Mail last month

Dickson sadly handed away whereas overlaying the Australian Open for the Daily Mail final month

Cricket writers Paul Newman and Lawrence Booth are nominated additionally in addition to rugby duo Nik Simon and Alex Bywater.

Andy Hooper is nominated for Sports Picture of the Year and there are additionally nominations for Riath Al-Samarrai, holder of the Sports Writer of the Year Award, Heather Dewar and the prolific Mike Keegan.

Global Publisher of Sport Lee Clayton stated: ‘Sport affords such a wide range of absorbing content material and conflicting feelings. Our ambition is to offer our readers with sports activities protection of the very best high quality, throughout a number of platforms.

‘Whether they’re conventional readers or our newspaper titles, or common followers of our digital choices, MailOn-line or through our rising social audiences.

‘We thank our readers for his or her continued patronage.’

The winners might be introduced at a gala ceremony, sponsored by The National Lottery, going down on Monday 25 March, 2024 in London.