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Amy Rosenfeld has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Colin Jose Media Award, which recognizes journalists who have made significant, long-term contributions to U.S. Soccer.
Amy Rosenfeld has made significant contributions to television soccer journalism.
FRISCO, Texas – Amy Rosenfeld has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Colin Jose Media Award, which recognizes journalists who have made significant, long-term contributions to U.S. Soccer.
The Emmy Award winners will be recognized at the National Soccer Hall of Fame's induction ceremony on May 4 in Frisco, Texas. The ceremony will also announce the induction of Tim Howard, Francisco Marcos, Josh McKinney and Tisha Venturini-Hoch from the 2024 Hall of Fame class.
Following a 25-year career as a freelancer and employee for ESPN, Rosenfeld contributed to the company's highly rated coverage of the Men's and Women's World Cups and served as lead producer for every tournament from 1999 to 2014. Also, she led ESPN's coverage of her. She was responsible for the UEFA European Football Championship three times, and from 2011 to 2013 she oversaw ESPN's England Premier League coverage.
Rosenfeld will join NBC Sports in June 2022 as senior vice president of Olympic and Paralympic Productions, overseeing the company's Olympic and Paralympic productions in host cities and expanding home-based operations in Stamford, Connecticut. . She previously produced soccer broadcasts for a television station. NBC Sports she covered two Olympics.
She is also credited with helping set television standards in the early days of Major League Soccer as a producer in 1997 and then overseeing ESPN's coverage of the league from 2011 to 2022.
“I'll never forget what a great job she did as a producer for the 1999 Women's World Cup,” said Fox soccer commentator and 2018 Colin Jose Media Award winner JP. Delacamera said. “She continues to make a long-term contribution to soccer on television, both at the World Cup and at the Olympics. This is a very well-deserved honor for Amy.”
The Colin Jose Media Award recognizes the contributions of reporters, columnists, writers, broadcasters, editors, public relations/media relations professionals, and other members of the print and electronic media who specialize in communications about U.S. soccer. It was created to honor. . The award is named for Colin Jose, Historian Emeritus of the National Soccer Hall of Fame and a prominent North American soccer historian.
Past Winners of the Colin Jose Media Award
• 2023 – Soccer with Grant Wall, Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, Grant Wall
• 2020 – Andres Cantor, Telemundo Deportes and other TV broadcasters
• 2019 – Tony Quinn, Photojournalist
• 2018 – JP Dellacamera, FOX and other TV broadcasters
• 2017 – Jim Trekker, Media Contact
• 2016 – Paul Kennedy, Soccer America
• 2013 – George Vecsey, New York Times
• 2012 – Graham Jones, Los Angeles Times
• 2010 – Paul Gardner, Soccer America
• 2009 – Alex Giannis, New York Times
• 2008 – Ike Koons, Newark Star-Ledger
• 2007 – George Tiedemann, Sports Illustrated/Freelance Photographer
• 2005 – Sheamus Mullin, ESPN and other TV stations
• 2004 – Jerry Trekker, Hartford Courant
