Amy Rosenfeld Named 2024 Colin Jose Media Award Winner
Renowned Television Leader Helped Grow the Game Through Coverage of Men’s and Women’s World Cups and Olympics for ESPN, NBC Sports
FRISCO, Texas (March 13, 2024) – Amy Rosenfeld has been named the recipient of the 2024 Colin Jose Media Award, which honors journalists whose careers have made significant long-term contributions to soccer in the United States.
The Emmy Award winner will be honored May 4 at the National Soccer Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Frisco, Texas. The ceremony also will feature the induction of the Hall of Fame’s 2024 Class: Tim Howard, Francisco Marcos, Josh McKinney and Tisha Venturini-Hoch.
Over a 25-year career as a freelancer and employee of ESPN, Rosenfeld was instrumental in the company’s critically acclaimed coverage of the Men’s and Women’s World Cups, serving as the lead producer for every single tournament from 1999 to 2014. She also led ESPN’s coverage of three UEFA European Football Championships and oversaw ESPN’s coverage of the English Premier League from 2011 to 2013.
Rosenfeld joined NBC Sports in June 2022 as the Senior Vice President, Olympics & Paralympics Production and oversees the company’s Olympics and Paralympics production in the host city as well as the growing at-home operation in Stamford, Conn. She had previously produced soccer coverage at two Olympic Games for NBC Sports.
She also is credited with helping to establish TV standards in the early days of Major League Soccer as a producer in 1997 and later overseeing ESPN’s coverage of the league from 2011 to 2022.
“I’ll never forget how great a job she did as the producer for the 1999 Women’s World Cup,” said JP Dellacamera, a Fox Soccer commentator and 2018 recipient of the Colin Jose Media Award. “She has gone on to make a long-term contribution to soccer on television, both in World Cups and the Olympics. This is an honor that Amy so richly deserves.”
The Colin Jose Media Award was created to honor the contributions of members of the print and electronic media, including reporters, columnists, authors, broadcasters, editors, public/media relations professionals and others who specialize in communications with respect to soccer in the United States. The award is named for Colin Jose, Historian Emeritus of the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the preeminent soccer historian of North America.
COLIN JOSE MEDIA AWARD RECIPIENTS
2024 – Amy Rosenfeld, ESPN, NBC Sports and other television broadcasters
2023 – Grant Wahl, Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, Fùtbol with Grant Wahl
2020 – Andrés Cantor, Telemundo Deportes and other television broadcasters
2019 – Tony Quinn, Photojournalist
2018 – JP Dellacamera, FOX and other television broadcasters
2017 – Jim Trecker, Media Relations
2016 – Paul Kennedy, Soccer America
2013 – George Vecsey, New York Times
2012 – Grahame Jones, Los Angeles Times
2010 – Paul Gardner, Soccer America
2009 – Alex Yannis, New York Times
2008 – Ike Kuhns, Newark Star-Ledger
2007 – George Tiedemann, Sports Illustrated/Freelance Photography
2005 – Seamus Malin, ESPN and other television broadcasters
2004 – Jerry Trecker, Hartford Courant