WSSU/CIAA beat writer named NC sportswriter
of the year
January 29, 2006
John Dell, a sportswriter for the Winston-Salem
Journal, has been named the sportswriter of
the year in North Carolina by the National
Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame.
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John Dell |
The Hall of Fame inducts a sportscaster and
sportswriter each year and names writers and
sportscasters of the year in almost every state,
as well as national winners.
Woody Durham, the longtime voice of University
of North Carolina athletics on the Tar Heel
Sports Network, was named the state's sportscaster
of the year.
A native of Chicago, Dell, 41, has been a
sportswriter for 18 years.
He covers Winston-Salem
State and the Central
Intercollegiate Athletics Association and has
been named the CIAA sportswriter of the year
four times in the 10 years that he has covered
the conference.
He started his professional newspaper career
at the Eden Daily News in Eden, N.C. as sports
editor of the five-day-a-week afternoon newspaper.
After spending nearly three years at the Eden
Daily News he became a sportswriter at the
Asheboro Courier-Tribune in Asheboro, N.C.
His duties included, but were not limited to
covering NASCAR, Charlotte Hornets basketball,
ACC football and basketball and high school
sports. Dell spent nearly four years at the
Asheboro Courier-Tribune. During those years
he was part of a three-man sports staff that
won a North Carolina Press Association award
in 1991 for a series on the Richard Petty family.
Following his time at the Courier-Tribune
he moved on to ACC Week Magazine, which was
published by the Winston-Salem Journal, where
he spent three years editing and writing a
52-page weekly magazine that was published
45 times a year. After the magazine folded,
he moved into the sports department at the
Winston-Salem Journal in June of 1993.
Dell then started covering WSSU and the CIAA
and also became the golf writer for the Winston-Salem
Journal.
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