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ABC dominates SA/NT Rural Media and Communicators awards

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Kristy O’Brien from the Darwin newsroom was named Rural Journalist of the Year and Best Rural Broadcast Journalist for audio/radio and for video/television at the 2024 Rural Media and Communicators SA/NT awards.

The ABC dominated at the Rural Media and Communicators SA/NT awards on Friday, with Kristy O’Brien from the Darwin newsroom named Rural Journalist of the Year.

O’Brien was also Best Rural Broadcast Journalist for audio/radio and for video/television.

ABC Riverland Rural reporter Eliza Berlage was named Best Rural Broadcast Journalist for digital/online; Broken Hill news reporter Bill Ormonde Best Rural/Regional Photojournalist; and Adelaide cinematographer Tony Hill won the Best Rural Photographer Award – Nature/Landscape/Rural Scenes.

Full list of ABC winners and highly commended:

JOURNALISM

2024 Rural Journalist of the Year

Winner: Kristy O’Brien, ABC NT

2024 Best Rural Broadcast Journalist – Audio / Radio

Winner: Kristy O’Brien, ABC NT

2024 Best Rural Broadcast Journalist – Video / Television

Winner: Kristy O’Brien, ABC NT

2024 Best Rural Broadcast Journalist – Digital / Online

Winner: Eliza Berlage, ABC Riverland

Highly commended: Bill Ormonde, ABC Broken Hill

PHOTOGRAPHY

2024 Best Rural Photographer Award – Nature/Landscape/Rural Scenes

Winner: Tony Hill, ABC TV

Best single photograph: Tony Hill, ABC TV

2024 Best Rural/Regional Photo Journalist Award

Winner: Bill Ormonde, ABC

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Quills now open, featuring new international reporting award

A new national award recognising the achievements of a pioneering female Australian journalist will be the centrepiece of the 30th anniversary Quill Awards celebration in March.

The new award, for international reporting, is named after Jana Wendt, one of Australia’s most respected journalists, whose significant career was built on a deep understanding of national and international issues, combined with an astute and insightful interviewing style. She worked for Australia’s three commercial television networks and SBS, frequently travelling overseas to report on international stories with global audiences.

Melbourne Press Club president Michael Bachelard said: “This award is a significant update to the Quills. Journalism conducted outside Australia’s borders is crucial to our understanding of the world, and I’m delighted that the Melbourne Press Club has elected to name it after one of Australia’s best-known journalists, Jana Wendt.’’

“I hope this award encourages our newsrooms to look beyond the immediate horizon and rewards the journalists who do this important work.’’

The Jana Wendt Award for International Reporting joins the Melbourne Press Club’s other national awards – the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of The Year award and the Harry Gordon Australian Sports Journalist of The Year award.

The new award will be supported for the next three years by Qantas Group.

Qantas International CEO Cam Wallace said great journalism was central to Australia’s place in the world and in communicating a deeper understanding of what was happening around the globe.

Jana Wendt expressed her gratitude at being associated with the new award.

“I am delighted that the Quills have chosen to establish a special award recognising the work of journalists reporting from beyond Australia’s borders,’’ she said.

“A foreign story makes high demands of the storyteller—and not only because the task is to bring to life the unfamiliar for a home audience. The work can be both thrilling and enervating. The practical job of navigating foreign environments and bureaucracies demands patience, vigilance, and savvy. For reporters in conflict zones, the risks are acute. But the journalist’s core challenge, always, is to deepen our understanding of the world.

“I am very grateful, and humbled, that the Melbourne Press Club has granted me the honour of association with this significant new award.’’

The announcement of the new award also marks the formal opening of the Quill Awards, with the presentation ceremony for the 30th anniversary event to be at Melbourne’s Crown Palladium on Friday, March 21.

The Press Club consulted members and its board to identify a journalist with a reputation for international reporting whose name would grace the award, and Jana emerged as the leading candidate. Jana is already a member of the Australian Media Hall of Fame.

Cam Wallace said that with Qantas operating flights to 34 international destinations on every inhabited continent, there were few major global events that did not impact the business in some way.

“Whether its conflict in Ukraine or the Middle East impacting global aviation, knowing what is happening in the world around us is key to our ability to safely connect Australia to the world,’’ he said.

“Great journalism is central to that. It gives us a deeper understanding of what’s happening around us, and Australia’s place in the world. That’s why we’re very proud to be the inaugural sponsor of the Jana Wendt Award for International Reporting to help recognise and celebrate the best of Australian journalism.”

This award carries an $8,000 prize.

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2024 Australian Sports Commission Media Awards

Full list of winners

Best coverage of sport for people with disability
Elizabeth Wright, ABC Sport
Highly Commended: Zachary Gates, Wide World of Sports

Best sports documentary
Came From Nowhere, SBS

Best coverage of rural and regional sport
James Gardiner, Newcastle Herald: ‘Newcastle Jets - a turbulent year for Newcastle’s flagship football side’
Highly Commended: Jeremy Story Carter, ABC: ‘Wahgunyah, undefeated’

Best depiction of inclusive sport
That Pacific Sports Show, ABC

Best coverage of sport by a club or organisation
Surfing Australia, 2024 Australian Boardriders Battle

Best sport profile – written
Kirby Short, Cricket Australia: ‘Comes in waves, the fall and rise of Josie Dooley’

Best reporting of an issue in sport
Julian Linden, News Corp: ‘China’s secret doping cover-up’
Highly commended: Michael Warner, News Corp ‘White Line Fever’

Best sport podcast
The Final Word Cricket Podcast, Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon

Best coverage of a sporting event - JOINT WINNERS
Nine Network, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
News Corp, Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Best sports photography
Delly Carr, Jess Fox celebrates Noèmie Fox’s win

Best sport coverage by an individual – broadcast
Corbin Middlemas, ABC Sport

Best sport coverage by an individual – written
Will Swanton, The Australian

Rising Star Award
Ellie Cole, Nine Network

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Nominations for the 30th Quill Awards were announced yesterday. The awards dinner will be held in Melbourne on March 21.

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The Walkley’s midyear celebration of journalism, which has been renamed the Mid-Year Media Prizes, has quietly dumped the award for industrial relations reporting. So quietly that there was no mention of the change in the press release or on the website. But it did not go unnoticed by the journalists who were lining up to enter.

It’s a strange move given the Gold Walkley won by Nine Entertainment in November was an IR story.

The Building Bad investigation saw a team of journalists across the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review and 60 Minutes expose allegations of criminal and corrupt conduct in the CFMEU, resulting in the union being placed into administration.

The Building Bad Team is Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman, Ben Schneiders, Garry McNab, Amelia Ballinger and Reid Butler.

Schneiders, who has won the IR award four times, has left the Age and now works for the ABC’s Four Corners.

Last year’s midyear IR category was won by the Australian’s Ewin Hannan, another prolific and award-winning IR reporter.

Schneiders, an investigative reporter who was a specialist IR roundsman at the Age between 2007 and 2011, told Weekly Beast it was a shortsighted and deeply disappointing decision.

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Half the Walkley Foundation board members have resigned amid a spectacular falling out between the media union and the annual journalism awards, the Walkleys.

The three Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance board directors – Karen Percy, Erin Delahunty and Kate Ferguson – have also resigned their elected positions in the union, as president and vice-presidents respectively.

According to confidential documents seen by Weekly Beast, there has been tension simmering for more than a year about a proposal to amend the foundation’s constitution to require that a majority of the board be independent and not union officials.

The Walkley Foundation chief executive, Shona Martyn, confirmed that Percy and Delahunty had resigned but said the MEAA had not informed her about Ferguson.

The MEAA’s national media section has been concerned about a lack of communication between the foundation and the union, which have joint responsibility for the awards.

The Walkley Foundation directors Adele Ferguson, Victoria Laurie and Sally Neighbour wrote to the MEAA pushing for urgent change but were rebuffed.

UPDATE 21/3

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The Age did well at The Quills

Record award haul for The Age journalists as McKenzie creates Quill history

Winners are posted here

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Videos of some presentations available

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ABC’s Julian Fell named best Australian IT journalist

Julian Fell, Kevin Nguyen and Gianfranco Di Giovanni at 2025 Australian IT Journalism Awards The Lizzies

From left to right: Julian Fell, Kevin Nguyen and Gianfranco Di Giovanni. Photo: Teresa Tan/ABC News.

ABC News Story Lab reporter Julian Fell scored a hat-trick at the annual Australian IT Journalism Awards (the Lizzies) on Friday night, winning Best Security Journalist, Best News Journalist and the Gold Lizzie for Best Journalist.

The Lizzies celebrate Australia’s best in tech, comms and science reporting. The Gold Lizzie recognises the journalist judged to have produced the highest quality of work during the previous year across all individual categories.

The awards recognised Julian’s impactful investigation in which he demonstrated how a popular robot vacuum cleaner could be hacked, allowing the ABC to watch live through the robovac’s camera.

His technology reporting also investigated TikTok Live’s money-making machine and linked an Australian media lawyer to a ‘parasitic’ AI content farm.

Other ABC winners included ABC NEWS Verify’s Kevin Nguyen (Best Technical Journalist) and ABC Entertainment’s Gianfranco Di Giovanni (Best Gaming Coverage), who has won this award two years in a row.

ABC Investigations and ABC NEWS Verify were highly commended for Best Video Program, an award for the team (Kevin Nguyen, Michael Workman, Jessicah Mendes, Sissy Reyes and Sarah Smaje) that produced Rise of the AI Pimps and What the Fake.

Also highly commended, in the Best Audio Program category, was ABC Radio National media, culture and technology podcast Download This Show, presented by Rae Johnston.

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Congratulations to this year’s winners!

The 2025 Tasmanian Media Awards were held on Friday, May 30 at the Crowne Plaza Hobart, celebrating the outstanding achievements of journalists across the state. With a record number of high-calibre entries received this year, the judges praised the exceptional standard of work submitted across all categories.

The prestigious title of 2025 Journalist of the Year was awarded to April McLennan of the ABC, whose investigative reporting stood out for its depth, compassion, and public impact.

“April’s body of work exemplifies her investigative skill and commitment to public interest journalism,” the judges said.

“Her ongoing coverage of issues within the Launceston General Hospital led to her powerful piece on women who’ve experienced traumatic births, shining a light on the hospital’s failure to respond to the women’s concerns. April approaches her craft with compassion and sensitivity, ensuring her stories have integrity as well as impact.”

Also honoured on the night was Airlie Ward, who received the Keith Welsh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. This lifetime achievement award recognises Airlie’s enduring dedication to Tasmanian journalism and her significant influence on the industry over many years.

The Tasmanian Media Awards continue to highlight the vital role of journalism in informing the public, holding power to account, and telling the stories that matter most to our communities.

Below is the full list of winners.

2025 Winners

Arts Reporting
April McLennan, ABC ‘Tasmania’s Arts Underbelly’

Best New Journalist
Eliza Kloser, ABC

Best News Image
Luke Bowden, ABC ‘Body of Work’

Best News Story
Jessica Moran, ABC ‘Puppies in the Freezer: Inside Tasmania’s Largest Puppy Farm’

Comment & Analysis
Adam Langenberg, ABC ‘Political Analysis’

Coverage of a Breaking News Event
James Dunlevie, Daniel Miller, Loretta Lohberger and Adam Langenberg, ABC, ‘Tasmanian Election 2024 Breaking News Event’

Excellence in Legal Reporting
Adam Holmes, ABC ‘Body of Work’

Feature, Documentary or Current Affairs
Adam Holmes, ABC, ‘Builder Collapse Exposes Failures in Regulation and Consumer Protection’

Freelance Journalist
Luke Slattery

Health Reporting
Lucy MacDonald, ABC, ‘LGH Staff Break Silence’

Public Service Journalism
April McLennan, ABC, ‘Body of Work’

Science, Technology & Environment
Bob Burton, Tasmanian Inquirer, ‘Dirty Business’

Sports Coverage
James Bresnehan, The Mercury, ‘Miracle at Sea’

Keith Welsh Award for Outstanding Contribution
Airlie Ward

2025 Journalist of the Year
April McLennan, ABC

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ABC’s April McLennan named Tasmanian 2025 Journalist of the Year

April McLennan holding herTasmanian 2025 Journalist of the Year trophy at the awards ceremony

The ABC won 12 of the 15 categories at the 2025 MEAA Tasmanian Media Awards.

April McLennan was named Tasmanian Journalist of the Year for her investigative reporting, in particular her work on women who have experienced traumatic births at Launceston General Hospital.

“April’s body of work exemplifies her investigative skill and commitment to public interest journalism,” the judges said.

“Her ongoing coverage of issues within the Launceston General Hospital led to her powerful piece on women who’ve experienced traumatic births, shining a light on the hospital’s failure to respond to the women’s concerns.

“April approaches her craft with compassion and sensitivity, ensuring her stories have integrity as well as impact.”

The ABC’s Airlie Ward received the Keith Welsh Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, a lifetime achievement award recognising her “enduring dedication to Tasmanian journalism and her significant influence on the industry over many years”.

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Winners announced for Walkley Foundation’s 2025 Mid-Year Media Prizes

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April McLennan was named the 2025 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year, as the Walkley Foundation honoured all the winners in the 2025 Mid-Year Media Prizes in Sydney this evening.

Peer-judged and selected on the basis of journalistic excellence, the Prizes include the John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards, Coverage of Science and Environment Prize, Freelance Journalist of the Year Prize, Women’s Leadership in Media Prize, Our Watch Award for Excellence in Reporting on Violence Against Women, Media Diversity Australia Prize, and Arts Journalism & Arts Criticism Prize.

Winners were also announced for the Jacoby-Walkley Scholarship with Nine, the ARN Audio Scholarship, and the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism.

Walkley Foundation Chief Executive Shona Martyn congratulated the winners and recipients.

“Once again the judges remarked on the high quality of entries across the categories, an encouraging reminder that Australia’s best journalism is of the highest standard,” she said.

ABC journalist April McLennan stood out as the overall John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year after winning the categories for both Public Service Journalism and Coverage of Community & Regional Affairs for her reporting in Launceston.

The judges said: ‘April’s body of work across two subjects – unwanted medical intervention in childbirth and the accusations against former Launceston mayor Danny Gibson – deservedly earned her recognition in two categories, making her a fitting winner of the Young Journalist of the Year award. Her work shows tenacity, dedication, strong investigative and research skills, and a laudable commitment to difficult public interest journalism.’

The Mid-Year Media Prizes are a standalone series of awards, held separately from the Walkley Awards which are announced in November. The Mid-Year Media Prizes are not Walkley Awards. They are judged by panels of specialist judges with no involvement from the Walkley Judging Board. The Walkley Judging Board however selects the winner of the John B Fairfax Family Young Journalist of the Year.

Winners are chosen on the basis of overall merit and journalistic excellence. The Walkley Foundation encourages a diversity of entries from journalists around Australia, published or broadcast between 16 April, 2024 and 14 April, 2025. The Walkley Foundation has a mechanism for dealing with any conflict of interest, actual or perceived, that may arise during the judging process. The guidelines are based on the principle that all actual conflicts of interest are to be avoided and that even a perceived conflict may be damaging to all parties.

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The MEAA SA Media Awards were held last night:

Text Formats – News, proudly sponsored by Adelaide University
Sean Fewster, Gemma Jones & Kathryn Bermingham, The Advertiser, ‘On the Nose – the David Speirs Video’

Text Formats – Feature, proudly sponsored by Adelaide University
Che Chorley, Lincoln Rothall & Daniel Keane, ABC, ‘Surface Tension’

Television/Video Journalism – Feature
Ben Hyde, Ruicheng Liang, Neely Karimi & Steve Grice, The Advertiser, ‘While I Was Sleeping’

Radio/Audio Journalism – Feature, proudly sponsored by ABC
Ben Avery, Nine Network, ‘Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw Mystery’

Radio/Audio Journalism – News Reporting, proudly sponsored by Media Super
Briana Fiore, ABC, ‘Losing Ashleigh – Asthma in SA’

Visual Storytelling, proudly sponsored by Media Super
Bill Ormonde, ABC, ‘Out of the Darkness’

Multimedia News or Feature, proudly sponsored by Media Super
Nicholas Maher, ABC, ‘International Law & Democracy Explained’

Best Rural/Regional Journalist
Bill Ormonde, ABC, ‘Body of Work’

Business, Economics or Finance Report
Luke Williams and Emma Brasier, The Advertiser, ‘Millions Missing: The Cost of No Accountability in Davenport’

Culture and Arts Report
Jack Evans, ABC, ‘BTN High – Class of Cabaret’

Freelance Journalist, proudly sponsored by Media Super
Megan Spencer, Freelance for Virtual War Memorial Australia, ‘Bringing His Spirit Home: Private Arthur Thomas Walker, Ngarrindjeri ANZAC’

Investigative Journalism, proudly sponsored by ABC
Brad Crouch, The Advertiser, ‘The Secret ICAC Tapes’

Political Report
Charlie Gilchrist, InDaily, ‘University of Adelaide Student Elections Overturned’

Social Equity Report, proudly sponsored by SACOSS
Stephanie Richards, ABC, ‘Uncovering SA’s Baby Removal Practices’

Sports Report
Ian Henschke, freelance screened by Run Nation Film Festival, ‘The Golden Mile’

Julie Duncan Memorial Award for Student Journalism, proudly sponsored by Adelaide University
Rachel Forbes

(Highly Commended: Kate Kinnear)

The Max Fatchen Award for Best Young Journalist, proudly sponsored by SA Unions
Eva Blandis, ABC, ‘Body of Work’

Journalist of the Year, proudly sponsored by Adelaide University
Ben Avery, Nine Network

A list of finalists can be found here

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2025 Kennedy Awards Finalists Announced

The Kennedy Foundation is proud to announce the finalists in the 2025 Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The finalists were selected after an exhaustive judging process involving 101 of the nation’s most experienced media professionals across 37 categories of journalistic excellence.

Kennedy Foundation Chairperson Carl Dumbrell said: “It’s been another extraordinary year, with more than 900 entries of exceptional quality. This is clear evidence that not only is a Kennedy Award held in the highest esteem, but that the finest traditions of Australian journalism remain alive and thriving.”

The standard of work submitted was so high that judges found it an incredibly difficult task to determine finalists—let alone the ultimate winners.

All the winners will be announced and celebrated at the Kennedy Foundation’s 2025 Awards Presentation Dinner, which will be held on Friday, August 15, at the Royal Randwick Ballroom.

Includes

MEDIA

Indigenous Affairs Reporting

· Karla Grant, Gary Cox, Bianca Schneller, Greg Wilesmith - Just Kids - Living Black, NITV and SBS

· Living Black ‘Duty of Care’ Team - Duty of Care - Living Black, NITV and SBS

· Matt Garrick - Breaking out of the NT’s prison crisis - ABC News Darwin

Outstanding Consumer Affairs

· Adele Ferguson, Chris Gillett and Ben Butler - Betrayal of Trust - Four Corners, ABC

· Linton Besser, Mayeta Clark, Echo Hui and Henry Zwartz - Strata Trap: The Greedy Industry Charging Australians Billions - Four Corners, ABC

· Four Corners Team - Road Gold: Investigating the multi-billion-dollar company controlling Australia’s toll roads - Four Corners, ABC

Outstanding Court and Legal Affairs Reporting

· Anne Connolly and Ninah Kopel - Pelvic mesh victims’ “betrayal” - 7.30, ABC

· Kate McClymont and Harriet Alexander - Hurricane Tim: the tale of a serial swindler - The Sydney Morning Herald

· Nina Funnell, Alice Fahrer and Kerry Warren - Take the Stand: Justice Shouldn’t Hurt - news.com.au

Outstanding Crime Reporting

· Alison Sandy, Liam Bartlett, Marc Wright and Cassie Woodward - The Truth About Amy – 7NEWS Podcasts

· Anne Connolly, Ninah Kopel, Gina McKeon and Echo Huii - The Invisible Killer - Background Briefing, ABC

· Mark Morri, Josh Hanrahan and Clementine Cuneo - The Dural caravan plot - The Daily Telegraph

Outstanding Finance Reporting

· Neil Chenoweth and Mark Di Stefano - The downfall of MinRes and Chris Ellison – Australian Financial Review

· Sarah Danckert and Carla Jaeger - Cash for the Boys: How the underworld pulled the strings at ASX listed tech startup - The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald

· Sarah Sharples and Alex Turner-Cohen - People Before Profit - news.com.au

Outstanding Foreign Correspondent

· Catalina Florez - El Salvador: Gangland to Safe Haven – Dateline, SBS

· Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty - Israel-Hezbollah War- The Sydney Morning Herald

· Prue Lewarne - Coverage from the Americas – Dateline, SBS

Outstanding Investigative Reporting

· Adele Ferguson, Chris Gillett and Ben Butler - Betrayal of Trust – Four Corners, ABC

· Katri Uibu - The ‘therapeutic’ system where kids fall prey to child sex abusers - ABC News

· 9Network Team - Building Bad - The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review and 60 Minutes, 9Network

Outstanding Online News Breaking

· Charlotte Karp and Stephen Drill - The backpacker poisonings - News Corp Australia

· Lucy Dean, Lucas Baird and Paul Smith - Cybercriminals break into Australia’s pension pot - Australian Financial Review

· Yoni Bashan and Liam Mendes and The Australian Team - Under attack from Iran - The Australian

Outstanding Political Reporting

· Linda Silmalis, James O’Doherty and Madeleine Bower - Rorts & Rides - The Downfall of a Minister - The Sunday Telegraph

· Sharri Markson - Left on Hold: Trump’s diplomatic snub of Albanese - Sky News Australia

· David Crowe, Perry Duffin and Jordan Baker - The Dural caravan - crime, politics and an old bomb - The Sydney Morning Herald

Outstanding Reporting on Human Rights, Social or Religious Affairs

· Avani Dias, Amy Donaldson and Maddy King - Emergency - Four Corners, ABC

· Elise Worthington - Brain blast injuries - 7.30 and ABC News

· Katri Uibu - The ‘therapeutic’ system where kids fall prey to child sex abusers - ABC News

Outstanding Reporting on the Environment

· Liam Bartlett, John Varga, Ben Fogarty and Luke Mortimer - Indonesia’s Dirty Nickel Trade - Spotlight, 7 Network

· Michael Bachelard and Charlotte Grieve-Dollars in the dust: Is outback scrub really saving the planet? - The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald

· Michael Dahlstrom - Mass Shooting of Over 1,000 Koalas in Budj Bim National Park - Yahoo News Australia

Outstanding Sport Reporting

· Danny Tran - Olympic coach investigation - ABC News

· Jessica Halloran and Stephen Rice - Predator in the Vault - The Australian

· Peter Badel and Jacqueline Magnay - Paris Olympics: Boxing’s Gender War - News Corp Australia

Regional Broadcast Reporting

· ABC South East NSW Team – The search for Hadi Nazari - ABC News

· Gavin Morris - Cyclone Alfred coverage - 9Network

· Joanna Woodburn - Whistleblowers expose cancer surgery scandal - 7.30 and ABC News Online

TELEVISION/VIDEO

Outstanding News Camera Coverage

· Colin Cosier - Murder in Afghanistan and Lebanon: War, Peace and Hezbollah - SBS

· Louis Dai - A New Sheriff in Town and Taiwan’s Dementia Village - SBS

· Ryan Sheridan - Endurance - Four Corners, ABC

Outstanding Nightly Television Current Affairs Reporting

· Andrew Probyn and Danielle Post - The Man of a Million Lives - A Current Affair, 9Network

· Sharri Markson - Left on Hold: Trump’s Diplomatic Snub of Albanese - Sky News Australia

· Steve Marshall, Danielle Post and Ben Lynch - Exposing Government Corruption - A Current Affair, 9Network

Outstanding Television Current Affairs Reporting - Long Form

· Christine Ahern and Natalie Clancy - Healthscope Horror - 60 Minutes, 9Network

· Eryk Bagshaw, Natalie Clancy, Clare Sibthorpe and Bianca Hrovat - Out of Order - The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Food and 60 Minutes, 9Network

· 60 Minutes Team - Methanol Poisoning - 60 Minutes, 9Network

Outstanding Television News Reporting

· Isabelle Mullen and Cameron Wallis - LA fires - 7Network

· Lauren Tomasi - Shooting the Messenger - 9News

· Kathryn Diss and Fletcher Yeung - Russia becomes the invaded - ABC News

Outstanding Documentary

· Adele Ferguson, Chris Gillett and Ben Butler - Betrayal of Trust - Four Corners, ABC

· Ivan O’Mahoney and Jessica Halloran - Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story - In Films and Roadshow Films

· WildBear Entertainment Team - Joh: Last King of Queensland - Stan

AUDIO JOURNALISM

Outstanding Podcast

· Tara Cassidy, Romy Sher, Nat Marshall and Kyle Hopkins - Crime in Focus: Killer Charm - LiSTNR

· Guardian Australia Team - Gina: power, privilege and influence - The Guardian

· Nine Entertainment Team - The Ultimate Sacrifice - Nine Entertainment

Outstanding Radio News and Current Affairs

· Kallee Buchanan - Paradise Damned - Qld Country Hour and ABC Radio

· Lucy Barbour - The ‘unspoken ban’ on abortion- AM, ABC

· Shane McInnes and Jacqui Felgate - Northland Lockdown- Machete Wielding Gangs Strike Fear Into Shoppers - 3AW 693

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At the Kennedy Awards at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse on Friday night, investigative reporter Nick McKenzie was named journalist of the year for the third time for a body of work that included the Building Bad series, which exposed high-level corruption and organised crime links at construction union the CFMEU. Building Bad series also won the award for outstanding investigative reporting.

Michelle Grattan and Peter Ryan (posthumously) were recognised with lifetime achievement awards.

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