Mr Edwards, who was 66, died on Saturday.
He was the sports editor at the newspaper from 1975 to 2002 and then moved to a position as senior sports writer from 2002-04 before leaving the newspaper.
He then wrote a twice-weekly sports column in the newspaper for a decade before ending that contribution in 2014.
Mr Edwards covered rugby and cricket for the majority of his career and was a talented and dedicated reporter.
He won numerous awards for his writing and was popular with players and administrators.
Often he would cover a rugby game on Saturday night and then report on a cricket match on the Sunday.
He won the New Zealand rugby writer of the year award twice and was named New Zealand sports journalist of the year in 2003.
Mr Edwards had a real love of sport.
There was nothing better for him than going to Molyneux Park in Alexandra and watching a cricket match or heading to training and watching Otago prepare for its next rugby game.
He covered his first match at age 17, in 1967, and his first test match in 1971, when the All Blacks beat the British and Irish Lions in Christchurch.
He spent two years in England in the early 1970s and had a real fondness for the country.
All up, he covered 127 tests and 404 Otago and Highlanders rugby games. He covered 134 first-class cricket games.
He is survived by wife Liz and three children.
● An obituary will follow.
