Finalists in the prestigious Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism have been announced at simultaneous events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
This year marks the 62nd annual Walkley Awards. Journalists around the nation submitted more than 1,200 entries, which were judged by more than 100 senior industry representatives.
Award winners will be announced at a gala dinner on Wednesday November 29, at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in partnership with Tourism & Events Queensland.
Radio/Audio finalists are:
RADIO NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS JOURNALISM
Award Partner: ABC
- Matt Brown, AM, ABC Radio, “The War on Islamic State”
Mosul Front; Mosul Battle; Turkey Terror List - James Purtill, triple j Hack, ABC Radio, “The Kalgoorlie Riot”
The death of Elijah and the day of the riot; How stolen bikes created Facebook fury; Growing up Indigenous in Kalgoorlie - Peter Ryan, AM, PM & The World Today, ABC Radio, ABC News 24 & BBC World Service, “Commonwealth Bank Scandal – accused of 53,000 breaches of anti-money laundering and terror financing laws”
Breaking News
RADIO/AUDIO FEATURE
Award Partner: QUT
- Sophie Black & Behind the Wire Team, wheelercentre.com, “The Messenger”
- Rachael Brown and Trace Team, ABC Radio, “Trace Podcast”
- Kirsti Melville, Radio National, ABC Radio, “Rottnest Island: Black Prison, White Playground”
Other categories with radio/audio finalists are:
HEADLINE, CAPTION OR HOOK
Award Partner: Qantas
- Daniel Franklin, ABC Radio, “Unlucky fisherman reeling amid banana karma drama”, “Plot your course through Sydney’s must-see cemeteries” and “Swarming seagulls fast becoming public enemy number two”.
- James Jeffrey and The Australian 404 team, The Australian, “ Tony Abbott 404”, “Sam Dastyari 404” and “Sussan Ley 404”
- Michael Nolan, The Saturday Paper, “The father, the son and the Hillary ghost”, “Dualling ban grows” “Carpe PM: Turnbull biographer Paddy Manning turns on the PM”
COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
- Jane Bardon, AM & PM, ABC Radio, 7.30 & News 24, ABC TV and ABC Online, “Demanding Justice: Marshall Wallace, BushMob and Stolen Generation 2”
- Sarah Dingle and Wendy Carlisle, Background Briefing, Radio National, ABC & ABC Online “Death in Kalgoorlie”
Death in Kalgoorlie - Calla Wahlquist, Guardian Australia, “ Three deaths in WA”
‘We’ve got to put our story out there’:
COVERAGE OF A MAJOR NEWS EVENT OR ISSUE
Award Partner: Lion
- Michael Bachelard and Kate Geraghty, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, “Stories of Mosul”
Surviving IS: Stories from Mosul - Louise Milligan, 7.30, ABC TV & Melbourne University Publishing, “George Pell Investigation”
Police interview George Pell in Rome - Peter Ryan, AM, PM & The World Today, ABC Radio, ABC News 24 & BBC World Service, “Commonwealth Bank Scandal – accused of 53,000 breaches of anti-money laundering and terror financing laws”
Breaking News
For the full list of finalists, click here.