Postmedia NFL columnist wins two major writing awards

Postmedia NFL columnist John Kryk was honoured twice for his work 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 second-place award for a story on Donald Trump never submitting a binding bid to buy the Buffalo Bills, and a third-place honour for a piece connecting nearly all of the great NFL quarterbacks of this century to 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 first-place honours in their respective categories.

Kryk won his second-place award in the Will Mcdonough Breaking News category. He won his third-place in the Lesley Visser Enterprise News/features category.

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 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.