Mansfield Courier journalist Hannah Kennelly won the William Buckland Foundation Fellowship with The Age in 2023. What did she learn in the big smoke and how it has benefited her regional newsroom? In January I stood outside 717 Bourke Street in Melbourne’ …
20 June, 2024 Liz Hayes, Gareth Harvey, Anushri Sood and Sonia Serrao from Under Investigation with Liz Hayes, Channel Nine, ‘Shots Fired’ have been named the winners of the 2024 Media Diversity Australia Award for their, ‘Shots Fired‘. The Nine team’s win …
20 June, 2024 ABC Broken Hill journalist Bill Ormonde was named the 2024 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year, as the Walkley Foundation honoured all the winners in the 2024 Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism in Sydney this evening …
Finalists for the Walkley Foundation’s 2024 Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism have been announced today. Peer-judged and selected on the basis of journalistic excellence, the Mid-Year Celebration suite administered by the Walkley Foundation includes the …
The Walkley Foundation has revised the Terms and Conditions for entry to the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. Stories and interviews that are paid for will not be eligible for a Walkley Award. Allowance will be made for reasonable/minimal …
The 2023 winners of the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism have produced their finished works, delivering in-depth coverage of international stories seldom covered in the Australian media. Marian Faa focused on access to contraception in Vanuatu, …
The International Journalism Festival is unique. It brings together more than 3000 participants from all over the world to explore what’s happening – and what’s next – in journalism. Held in the medieval city of Perugia, it’s free to attend and there’s no …
April 2024 The Walkley Foundation has welcomed five incoming members of the Walkley Judging Board: Colleen Egan (former investigative journalist, Western Australia), Claire Mackay (ABC, SA), Konrad Marshall (Good Weekend, Victoria), Solua Middleton (ABC, …
Six Australian journalists have been selected to travel to the Republic of Korea (ROK) in June as part of the 2024 Australia-Korea Media Exchange program. Alexander Blair (News.com.au), Bridget Carter (The Australian), Nadia Daly (ABC), Elouise Fowler (AFR …
The 2024 Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism opens on Monday, 4 March. The Mid-Years, to be presented on 20 June at Pier One Sydney Harbour, include six categories in The John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards, The June …
Fifty-one news publishers and independent journalists will be awarded AU$5M in funding from the Meta Australian News Fund, in the third round of a AUD$15M three-year investment in partnership with the Walkley Foundation. In its final year, the fund program …
Ten journalists from around Australia have been announced as successful applicants for the 2024 Walkley Mentorship program. Each mentee has been matched with a mentor for the 12-month program supported by the Walkley Public Fund and Hantomeli Foundation. …
Matilda Joy: Australian players celebrate as goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold stops France’s penalty shot by Eve Perisset in the penalty shoot out during the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Quarter Final match between Australia and France at Brisbane Stadium. Photo …
Matilda Joy: Australian players celebrate as goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold stops France’s penalty shot by Eve Perisset in the penalty shoot out during the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Quarter Final match between Australia and France at Brisbane Stadium. Photo …
In 1980 Joanne McCarthy became the Gosford Star’s first journalism cadet – based on no interview and, she has said in the past, “quite possibly the world’s worst job application.” It was a humble beginning for what was to come in this tenacious reporter’s …
It’s hard to imagine there is anything worse in the life of a journalist than receiving death threats, but nine-time Walkley award winner Kate McClymont AM, renowned for, amongst many other investigations, her coverage of corrupt former Labor MP Eddie …
“If you’ve worked in the tax division of a large accountancy firm, you’re not frightened of balance sheets or lawyers, and you know there’s a lot of fraud out there, so you’re already a step ahead in your research,” says three-time Walkley Award-winner …
Marian Wilkinson has no doubt about what she wants to concentrate on for the rest of her working career. In 2008, she and her 4 Corners team won both a Eureka Prize and her second Walkley Award for the multimedia climate change report The Tipping Point on …
By anybody’s standards, writing a book about the media empire you happen to be employed by could be considered brave, foolhardy, or both. But in 2013 Pamela Williams won the Walkley Book Award for her book Killing Fairfax, which detailed the savage wars in …
Fairfax Sports columnist Caroline Wilson, photographed in Sydney before giving the annual Andrew Olle lecture. Photographed Thursday 1st November 2018. Photograph by James Brickwood. Caroline Wilson, the first woman to cover Australian Rules football full …
