Postmedia columnist claims two honours

Football writers association awards Kryk

Postmedia NFL columnist John Kryk was honoured twice for his writing by the Professional Football Writers of America through their 2020 Dick Connor Writing Awards.

Kryk was one of seven journalists to receive two awards, earning a secondplace award for a story on Donald Trump never submitting a binding bid to buy the Buffalo Bills, and a thirdplace honour for a piece connecting nearly all of the great NFL quarterbacks of this century being former shortstops.

He won a National Newspaper Award for sports, along with Postmedia colleagues Scott Stinson and Vicki Hall, in 2015.

Zak Keefer of The Athletic, Ian O'Connor of ESPN. com, Jason Wolf of the Buffalo News, Tim Graham of The Athletic, Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Zach Berman of The Athletic all won firstplace honours in their respective categories.

Kr yk's second- place award came in the Will McDonough Breaking News category. His third-place award came in the Lesley Visser Enterprise News/Features.

From a release, “The Connor Awards encompass beat reporting, columns, features, enterprise news/features, breaking news, and game stories written by PFWA members from post-Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta through Super Bowl LIV in Miami.” There are more than 400 PFWA members.

The awards are named for Connor, the ninth PFWA president (1980-81) and the organization's 1991 Dick McCann Award recipient, who worked for the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News.

The 2020 Connor Writing Awards were judged by Malcolm Moran, the director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, who has directed sports journalism programs for more than a decade after a career as an award-winning reporter and columnist at the New York Times, USA Today and other publications.