Nick McKenzie led the cross-platform, collaborative team behind the 2024 Gold Walkley-winning investigation ‘Building Bad’. Nick spoke with the Walkley Foundation to share some of the stories behind the story.
The Walkley Foundation said today that it is misleading and inaccurate to suggest that the Foundation itself funded Cosmos Magazine for a project that utilised AI and machine learning to assist in repurposing some of their existing science stories into…
James Gorman reports back on the 2024 Australia-Korea Media Exchange. Six Australian journalists returned to Australia last week after an 11-day exchange program across the Republic of Korea (ROK). The program, supported by the Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF), the Korea Press…
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…
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), Tobias Loftus…
The 2024 Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism opens on Monday, 4 March. The Mid-Years are a standalone series of awards, held separately from the Walkley Awards, announced in November. The Mid-Year Awards are not Walkley Awards. They are judged by panels…
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…
The Board of The Walkley Foundation has reviewed documents uploaded to the Federal Court this week which show an exclusivity agreement made between Seven and Bruce Lehrmann in April 2023 and a leasing arrangement which provided Mr Lehrmann with 12…
Edmund Tadros and Neil Chenoweth have won the Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour, for ‘PwC Tax Leaks Scandal’ in The Australian Financial Review. The judges said: “Clearly the most outstanding piece of journalism of the year. This is powerful, important,…
WINNER: NIKON PHOTO OF THE YEAR Quinn Rooney, Getty Images, ‘Matilda Joy’ 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…
The strength of podcasting by Australian journalists has been reflected in an extremely broad and outstanding field of entrants in the Audio Long category of the 68th Walkley Awards. As a result, the Walkley Foundation has today announced a longlist…
The Federal Treasurer, the Hon Jim Chalmers MP joined business journalists at a lunch hosted by the Walkley Foundation on Wednesday, September 20 for the announcement of the 68th Walkley Award for Business Journalism finalists, supported by ING Australia. The…
Young Journalist Emily Baker said her time spent working in the UK left her feeling “re-energised to chase great stories” after returning to her post at ABC, Sydney. Emily won the 2022 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of…
The Walkley Foundation has condemned and expressed deep regret for racist views expressed by the founder of its major awards Sir William Gaston Walkley in a newspaper column in 1961. “His views do not reflect the values, views and ethics…