The National Sports Media Association (NSMA) named the Boston Herald’s Karen Guregian the 2022 Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year final week.
Guregian joined the Herald’s sports activities workers in 1984 and has lined the Patriots full-time since 2007. Through sharp columns and breaking information tales, Guregian has established herself as one of the crucial revered native voices in NFL media. Her reporting has taken Patriots followers contained in the league’s most secretive group for greater than a decade and foreshadowed Tom Brady’s departure from New England in March 2021 after an unprecedented 20-year run.
This is the primary time Guregian has been honored by the NSMA.
“There have been so many deserving award winners in the 63-year history of this organization, and yet, there are so many others who are deserving who have not won,” stated NSMA government director Dave Goren. “To see Karen receive this recognition from her peers after a long and distinguished run with one outlet brought a smile to my face.”
Over her award-winning profession, Guregian has additionally lined the Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins, plus main occasions together with two Olympics, the Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cup Final, U.S. Open Tennis Tournament, U.S. Open Golf Tournament, Boston Marathon, NCAA males’s hockey Frozen Four, the Beanpot, Head of the Charles Regatta, faculty basketball, soccer, softball and observe occasions and scores of highschool tournaments and championships.
“Karen is what they call in baseball a ‘five-tool’ player. She can literally do anything,” stated Regional Sports Editor Bruce Castleberry. “It’s not just covering the Patriots. She’s been invaluable to the Herald in her leadership, her professionalism, her dedication … this is a well-deserved recognition.”
The different finalists for the Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year award had been Dan Shaughnessy, Gary Washburn, Tara Sullivan and Jim McBride of The Boston Globe, The Athletic’s Fluto Shinzawa and Brian Robb of MassLive. Red Sox radio play-by-play broadcaster Joe Castiglione was named the Massachusetts Sportscaster of the Year.
Source: www.bostonherald.com