Michael Atherton led The Times to six top prizes at the SJA’s British Sports Journalism Awards, with The Thunderer taking the SJA/Laureus Sports Newspaper title for the second successive year,  while their cricket correspondent was named Sports Writer of the Year for a second time, as well as taking the prize for Specialist Correspondent.

The Times‘s winners came from across the board, with Matthew Syed winning Sports Feature Writer for a second year, Mark Souster’s exclusives on England’s Rugby World Cup reports taking Sports Scoop of the Year, and last year’s winner, Ed Hawkins, taking again the SJA/BetVictor Sports Betting Writer prize.

The power of photo-journalism was on display with freelancer Mark Robinson’s picture, published by The Sun, from the controversial Amir Khan fight last year, which shows the “mystery man” apparently interfering with the judging process during the world title bout.

But on a great night for Atherton, he also had a reasonable claim to a share of the Television Sports Programme, as Sky Sport’s coverage of Test cricket retained that title.

List of winners from The Times:

• SJA/Laureus Sports Newspaper of the Year: The Times 
• SJA Sports Writer of the Year: Michael Atherton (The Times) 
• Sports Feature Writer: Matthew Syed (The Times).  
• Sports Scoop: Leaked document exposes England Rugby World Cup shame (Mark Souster, The Times). 
• Specialist Correspondent: Michael Atherton (The Times). Highly commended: Mark Souster (The Times) 
• SJA/BetVictor Sports Betting Writer: Ed Hawkins (The Times).

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