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Walkley Mid-Year Awards

The Walkley Foundation tonight announced winners for its suite of mid-year awards, as well as projects receiving seed money from the Walkley Media Incubator and Innovation Fund.
The foundation’s annual Mid-Year Award Celebration recognises the best young journalists, freelancers, and projects advancing innovation in journalism. This year, the Walkleys added awards for industrial relations journalists, and for arts journalists and critics.
The full list of winners is below.

Industrial Relations Reporting Award
Ben Schneiders, Royce Millar and Nick Toscano, The Age
Macca’s workers underpaid by millions
Shopped Out
Sold out: quarter of a million workers underpaid in union deals

Women’s Leadership in Media Award
Catherine Fox, ABC Online, The Australian and New South Publishing
Recruitment drive boosts number of women working on railways
Elizabeth Broderick, Lance Hockridge and the Male Champions of Change
Stop Fixing Women (Book)

Freelance Journalist of the Year
Jo Chandler, The Monthly and Background Briefing, ABC Radio National
Climate of Change

Arts Journalism Award
John Shand, Johnshand.com.au and The Sydney Morning Herald
Meaning It: Truth, Trump Universality and Cultural Amnesia

Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism
Kate Hennessy, The Guardian
The Drover’s Wife review – plot twist leaves Australian classic spinning on its axis

Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards

SHORTFORM JOURNALISM
Tom Minear, Herald Sun
Minister’s dog act
Gone to the dogs
Boned

LONGFORM FEATURE OR SPECIAL
Carl Smith, The Science Show, ABC Radio National
Bionic Bodies

COVERAGE OF COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS
Michael McGowan and Carrie Fellner, Newcastle Herald
The foam and the fury

VISUAL STORYTELLING
Dave May, SBS Viceland
Bullying’s Deadly Toll
Australia’s Only Town Against Same-Sex Marriage
Suburban Exorcists

PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM
Paul Farrell, Guardian Australia
The Nauru Files

STUDENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Christiane Barro, Mojo News, Monash University
‘I would have sat every day of those 20 years in jail’
‘It’s not our fault’: Dole recipients say they’re not bludging the system
‘It’s safer for everyone’: heroin addicts plead for a safe injecting room

JACOBY-WALKLEY SCHOLARSHIP
Lydia Bilton, The University of Sydney

WALKLEY YOUNG AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Paul Farrell, Guardian Australia
The Nauru Files

The Walkley Advisory Board, represented by Kate McClymont, Claire Harvey, Jonny Richards and Angelos Frangopoulos, said of the overall winner:
“Paul Farrell’s remarkable release of the Nauru Files produced shockwaves that are still reverberating in Australia and around the world. It is the essence of great journalism. We were also impressed by the innovative presentation of the leaked reports. A very deserving winner.”
Thanks to the support of the Jibb Foundation, Farrell will fly to the USA with Cathay Pacific to undertake two weeks’ worth of work experience; he and other category winners will also receive mentoring from the Walkley Advisory Board.