Sa’adi gets Lifetime Achievement Award for Journalism Excellence

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Sa’adi Thawfeeq (left) receives the Award from TEGOSL Member and Sunday Observer Editor Pramod de Silva

Senior sports journalist Sa’adi Thawfeeq was bestowed with the Lifetime Achievement Award on Tuesday at the 26th edition of the Journalism Awards for Excellence 2024 organised by The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka (TEGOSL).

Sa’adi is a prominent Sri Lankan sports journalist and veteran cricket writer, with a career spanning over four decades. He completes 50 years in sports journalism in March 2026. He served Lake House in the Daily News as a sports writer and then as Sports Editor from 1976-2006 and again from 2015-2020 as Group Sports Editor, and The Nation (as Deputy Editor – Sports) 2006-2015. Presently, he serves as a sports writer for the Daily FT.

He won the Sports Journalism of the Year award twice, conducted by TEGOSL in 2006 and 2007.

His late father, M.M. Thawfeeq, was also a longstanding journalist at Lake House, serving over 40 years as Sports Editor of the Ceylon Observer and as Deputy Editor of the Daily News.