This fellowship commemorates Sam Landsberger, a talented and beloved sports journalist, who was a passionate Western Bulldogs fan and a multiple-award winning member of the Herald Sun’s sports reporting team. He died in 2024, aged 35.

This is a co-operative initiative from the Melbourne Press Club, the Western Bulldogs and the Herald Sun.

The inaugural recipient of our Sam Landsberger Sport Journalism Fellowship is Latrobe University journalism student Ella Zammit. Read her thoughts on the fellowship here.

The Melbourne Press Club is grateful for the support of: