Applications close on Tuesday October 8 for the Caroline Jones Women in Media Young Journalist’s Award for 2024. The Award recognises tenacity and passion for the craft of journalism from young women working across rural and regional Australia and provides the winner experience of journalism, politics and government in Canberra as well as time and the experience of some of the country’s top female journalists.
The Award recipient receives:
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$3000 personal learning fund
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Travel and accommodation to Canberra for five nights
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National Press Club lunch attendance and question
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Mentorship from members of the Canberra Women in Media Committee
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The winner will spend time in a variety of Canberra and Press Gallery newsrooms throughout the week.
Caroline Jones AO was ground-breaking journalist who joined the ABC in 1963 and became the first female reporter for This Day Tonight. She presented Radio National’s Search for Meaning and Australian Story.
As inaugural national co-patron of Women in Media, a mentoring, networking, and professional development initiative for Australian women in media modelled on a successful group first established in Western Australia in 2005, this Award was named in her honour, encouraging young female rural and regional journalists to experience first-hand the complexities of the media and political landscape across the nation’s capital.
Applicants must be aged up to 30 years and have at least one year of full-time industry experience.
Further details on how to apply can be found here.
The issue that I have whether it is any kind of scholarship or award for any group regardless of gender, disability or Aboriginality is that anyone over a certain age is excluded from participating in the scholarship or award.
An ineligible-by-age candidate may have struggled to get opportunities to get a foothold in an industry through low socio-economic or other conditions that puts a person at a disadvantage.
When there are industries such as as Nine involved in including diversity, I cringe when everything under the sun in diversity is included except mature-aged graduates.
Example:
https://tvtonight.com.au/2024/09/industry-gathers-for-diversity-discussion.html
The same applies for a top tier professional services firm celebrating diversity, yet look at photos of the graduates and mature-aged-looking people are not part of the recent recruits.
I have dealt with Caroline Jones as a volunteer at 2SER. She was one of most decent professional and courteous people I have spoken too.
I also miss the banter between Clive Robertson and Caroline at about 0725 weekdays on 2BL.
I also miss her presentations on 4 Corners.
What I don't like is anyone over 30 misses out without knowing the background of the candidate.
Thanks
Anthony, Strathfield South, in the land of the Wangal and Darug People's of the Eora Nation