Carrie Brown elected first female chair of Football Writers' Association
Wednesday 24 April 2019 10:36, UK
Carrie Brown has become the first woman to chair the Football Writers' Association, and the first female chair of a major football organisation.
A senior sports correspondent for BeIN Sports, Brown was elected unanimously at the FWA's annual general meeting on April 23 and will take over from Patrick Barclay.
Brown paid tribute to Vikki Orvice, a journalist at The Sun, who died in February this year after a battle with cancer.
"I am honoured to have been voted into the role of chairman but accept the position in the knowledge this role should have been taken by our late vice-chair Vikki Orvice," Brown said.
"Vikki was an early and ever-present support and role model in my career. I will not try to emulate or follow her path but I do hope I can make her and our members proud."
The FWA, which aims to act as the representative body for those involved in the football media industry, has 430 full members.
"Carrie will continue and enhance the development of the FWA in every sense," said Barclay. "She has made a great impact on the organisation in a relatively short time and yet the energy she has put into this crucial contribution to our modernisation is balanced by a respect for history.
"Yes, we have made progress in terms of membership and, within that, diversity. But within the next few years progress will harden into true, undeniable and irrevocable character. Nothing could make me more sure of that than the election of Carrie Brown."
