Tashan Reed, the Las Vegas Raiders beat reporter for The Athletic, has been selected as the 2023 Terez A. Paylor Emerging Writer Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA). Reed, the third Paylor Award winner, has covered the Raiders for The Athletic since 2020. Reed was also a finalist for last year’s […]
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Jim Trotter selected as PFWA 2023 Bill Nunn Jr. Award winner
Jim Trotter, national columnist for The Athletic who has covered the NFL since the mid-1990s, has been selected as the 2023 Bill Nunn Jr. Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA). Trotter, the 55th Nunn Award honoree, is the first journalist from The Athletic to win the award. The Nunn Award is […]
Jourdan Rodrigue selected as PFWA 2021 Terez A. Paylor Emerging Writer Award winner
Jourdan Rodrigue, The Athletic’s Los Angeles Rams beat reporter, has been selected as the first Terez A. Paylor Emerging Writer Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA). The Paylor Award recognizes a rising star in pro football writing, who exemplifies the qualities of Paylor, the former Yahoo! Sports and Kansas City Star […]
PFWA officers, board elected for 2021-22 seasons; Rooney Scholarship recipient announced
At the 2021 PFWA Annual Meeting held virtually January 29, the PFWA membership elected a slate of officers and board members for the 2021-2022 seasons. Lindsay Jones, senior writer for The Athletic, was elected to a two-year term as the organization’s 30th PFWA president. Also elected to two-year officer terms were Jenny Vrentas, Sports Illustrated […]
PFWA statement on July 16, 2020 story in The Washington Post
The Pro Football Writers of America stands in support of Rhiannon Walker of The Athletic and Nora Princiotti of The Ringer, who bravely shared their experiences of sexual harassment while covering the Washington football team. All reporters covering the NFL, regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation, deserve safe workplaces free of harassment. The PFWA […]
Don Banks 1962-2019
Longtime NFL reporter Don Banks died Sunday, August 4 in Canton, Ohio after attending the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Weekend, where he covered the HOF ceremonies and was in attendance when his good friend Sam Farmer was honored with the Dick McCann Award. Banks’ first story for the Las Vegas Review-Journal was published hours before […]