Sam Wallace (journalist)
Sam Wallace is a British sports journalist, the Chief Football Writer at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph since 2015. In 2021, he was the recipient of the Scoop of the Year and Football Journalist of the Year at the SJA Awards,[1] as well as the Hugh McIlvanney Sports Journalist of the Year and Sport News Story of the Year at The Press Awards.[2]
Early life and education
From
Career
Wallace earned a place on the Telegraph graduate training scheme in 1999 and apart from six months at the
Wallace was nominated in the specialist correspondent category at the 2009
A regular pundit on
On 2 March 2021 it was announced that at the Society of Editors’ “The Press Awards” that Wallace was nominated twice, once for The Hugh McIlvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the year, and also for the Sports News Story of the year for his scoop in the Telegraph about ‘Project Big Picture’, designed by some to help the Premier League–Football League gulf.[27]
References
- ^ "The Daily Telegraph is named Sports Newspaper of the Year - again". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Gallery of Winners – Society of Editors". Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Sam Wallace: In a roundabout way, Stevenage show the true strength of". The Independent. 19 April 2010.
- ^ "An Interview with the Independent's Chief Football Correspondent, Sam Wallace". Read Arsenal. 6 February 2015.
- ^ Poulter, Ian [@ianjamespoulter] (23 July 2013). "Looked at your School work today from 20+ years ago" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ISBN 9781782066903– via Google Books.
- ^ Last, Danny (20 August 2010). "European Football Weekends: Sam Wallace - The Independent".
- ^ "England v Brazil: How Gary Lineker beat the Samba boys". The Independent. 4 February 2013.
- ^ "Sam Wallace: I survived the hairdryer, but there's a lot more to". The Independent. 8 May 2013.
- ^ "My Week: Sam Wallace | Football Writers' Association".
- ^ "Wallace joins the Telegraph in pre-season transfer". Sports Journalists' Association.
- ^ "Sam Wallace". The Independent.
- ^ "Telegraph launches Total Football podcast by Lydia O'Neill". www.newsworks.org.uk.
- ^ "Telegraph Audio Football Club podcast: Explaining the Spurs and Liverpool miracles, with Sam Wallace". www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ^ Amos, Owen (25 February 2009). "Former sports stars feature in SJA award nominations". Press Gazette.
- ^ "FSF Awards 2014: Writer of the Year". Football Supporters' Association. 21 November 2014.
- ^ "2016 BRITISH SPORTS JOURNALISM AWARDS – Sports Journalists' Association".
- ^ "2018 British Sports Journalism Awards – Sports Journalists' Association".
- ^ "SJA British Sports Journalism Awards 2019: writing shortlists – Sports Journalists' Association".
- ^ "AIPS Media". www.aipsmedia.com.
- ^ "History for Hyde as first woman hailed UK Sports Journalist of the Year | KeirRadnedge.com".
- ^ "FSA Awards 2021 shortlists announced". 2 November 2021.
- ^ "Sky Sports apologise after libellous comment about Morrissey is aired". Evening Standard. 17 May 2020.
- ^ "MOTD3: Who wins end-of-term awards?". BBC Sport. 30 March 2014.
- ^ "BBC Radio 5 live - Football Daily, Liverpool reach Europa League final". BBC.
- ^ "Palace Podcast". eagles.cpfc.co.uk.
- ^ "Shortlist – Society of Editors". Retrieved 27 August 2021.