• Mary Garber to be inducted into National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and Hall of Fame.

• Kansas City Star staff take Triple Crown at APSE awards.

• Olympic swimmer Dara Torres to be keynote speakrer for 2008 AWSM convention.  

• AWSM member Malcolm Moran has been honored by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

• AWSM member Amalie Benjamin has been featured on the Sports Media Guide website.

• Three AWSM members move into sports editor roles.

• AWSM is working to compile a list of all women working in sports management positions at newspapers and sports-related websites.

• AWSM has been featured on the Sports Media Journal blog.

• Le Anne Schreiber, former sports editor of The New York Times, has been named ESPN's new ombudsman.

• AWSM congratulates all its members who won awards in this year's Associated Press Sports Editors' writing and section contests .

• AWSM members Robbi Pickeral and Cara LaBrie have had an update in their discrimination case against the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Read the AWSM statement regarding their case.

• AWSM member Lesley Visser will be the first woman honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame . Read a profile of her from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

• Former golf champion and sportswriter Maureen Orcutt, 99, has died.

• USTA to rename National Tennis Center for AWSM member Billie Jean King.

• AWSM intern Briana Gorman discovered life in the fast lane.

• APSE has commissioned a study on diversity in newspaper sports departments. Read the Associated Press story, items from The Dallas Morning News and Orlando Sentinel, and a copy of Joanne Gerstner's remarks to the APSE convention.

• Former AWSM president Joanne Gerstner has penned a noteworthy article in the latest APSE newsletter (page 12).

• Happy Mother's Day to our AWSM moms! Read an article about women who juggle sports media careers and motherhood, published in the Los Angeles Daily News.

• An AWSM member writes about the death of IRL driver and former sportswriter Paul Dana.

• Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald wrote an article on women in sports broadcasting, including a few AWSM members.

• AWSM salutes true sportswriting pioneer Helene Elliott on her induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

• Got an opinion on the college BCS? Then read this .

• AWSM member Lesley Visser has received a new award while member Johnette Howard just published her first book. Also, Christine Brennan was named WISE Woman of the Year. (Posted Spring 2005)

• The first sports-talk radio show dedicated to women's sports is headed up by a pair of AWSM members. (Posted Spring 2005)

• Congratulations to the 2005 Pioneer Award Winner, Cathy Henkel of the Seattle Times. Read a recent first-person piece from Henkel and the Seattle Times take on her award. (Posted Spring 2005)

• AWSM is being featured on industry websites: check out the APSE letter, the article from American Journalism Review and our president's column in Editor & Publisher. (Posted March 2005)

• Check out AWSM's APSE winners and those who received PRWeek Awards. (Posted March 2005)

• Say What? Keyshawn Johnson's radio remarks leave some splinters.

• Seen the movie "Mr. 3000" yet? Sports Illustrated's Richard Deitsch has something to say about the female sports journalist character.

• AWSM members have been winning a host of awards lately.

• Another AWSM member lost: Casey Kane, former Newsletter VP, has died of complications from cancer. (posted 5/25/2004)

• We are sad to report that longtime AWSM member Marsha Bosley has died following a long battle with breast cancer. (posted 5/23/2004)

• ESPN 'Playmakers'

    AWSM Protests ESPN's 'Playmakers'
    AWSM President's Letter to ESPN
    Karen Crouse column
    ESPN's Response to AWSM
    ESPN Cancels 'Playmakers'
    More 'Playmakers' Links

• Andy Rooney of '60 Minutes'

    Text of Rooney's rant
    Andrew Gross column
    Rudy Martzke column
    Article on Pam Ward
    Christine Brennan's response