ABOUT MIRIAM

Miriam Walker-Khan is a multi-award-winning freelance sports reporter, presenter and writer. She specialises in storytelling in women’s sport, around race and racism, para-sport and topics related to diversity and inclusion, with specialist knowledge in women’s football and Olympic sports - especially track and field, which was her sport growing up. For the past three years, Miriam was working as Diversity and Inclusion at reporter at Sky Sports News - the first in the sports media industry. 

In her role at Sky Sports, Miriam  presented and co-produced several documentaries including a deep-dive into English cricket for South Asian players in the aftermath of its recent racism scandals, Beyond the Boundary. In 2024, she presented and co-produced Football’s Hidden Talent, Fit for Purpose in 2023, the Represent series and is the presenter/co-producer of the series Real Talk, which won Podcast of the Year at the 2025 Broadcast Sport Awards. 

As well as her documentary and features work, Miriam is experienced in working at some of the world’s biggest sporting events. In 2024 she reported for Sky Sports News at both the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games and in 2025 she reported at the UEFA women's football European Championships in Switzerland. For BBC Sport in 2021, Miriam was sent to Tokyo as a producer (TV and radio) for the Paralympic Games. 

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Prior to her role at Sky, Miriam worked at BBC Sport for six years, from a trainee on the BBC News Journalism Trainee Scheme (the sole sport traineeship) to a Senior Reporter for younger audiences and digital platforms, as well as reporting on Match of the Day, Football Focus, MOTDx and being a quarter of the Question of Sport podcast. She also freelanced as both a producer and assistant producer for BBC Sport TV News, World Service radio, BBC Africa TV and Newsround. Miriam was co-Chair of BBC Sport’s BAME Advisory Group and became the first BBC Sport representative to receive a place on the BBC News Next Generation Panel. But her career began in writing, as the editor of track and field website Vinco Sport. Since 2018, her work has featured the New York Times, Guardian Opinion, Men's Health, Dazed and gal-dem magazine amongst others.​​

Awards

• Winner - Sports Journalist of the Year, 2025 Asian Media Awards

• Winner - Sports Ones to Watch [on-air category], 2024 Sports Journalism Awards 

• Winner - Podcast of the Year (Real Talk podcast), 2025 Broadcast Sport Awards

• Winner - Media award, 2025 Asian Sports List

• Highly commended, Young Achiever, 2023 Asian Women of Achievement Awards 

• Highly commended, Disruptor for Good, 2022 Northern Power Women Awards

• Finalist - Sports Journalist of the Year, 2024 London Press Club Awards 

• Versus 50 List, 2024 (one of four “auto-picks”) 

• Winner - EDI category, silver award, 2023 Football Content Awards 

• Northern Power Women Future List, 2024 

• 50 Rising Stars in ESG, 2025 Women of the Future list