As we looked back on the first Gold Walkley-winner, Catherine Martin (1918-2009), we found this obituary penned by Helen Trinca for The Walkley Magazine in 2009 almost impossible to excerpt. So here it is, reproduced in full.
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.
‘I personally am broken, physically, mentally, and financially,’ whistleblower Richard Boyle said in an address at the 2024 Walkley Awards. The Walkley Foundation calls on the government to ensure whistleblowers are ‘safeguarded, rather than punished’.
The 69th Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism were presented in 30 categories, announced tonight in Sydney. The 'Building Bad' investigation has won the 2024 Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour, for reports broken by a team of journalists across…
Kate Geraghty has been named the winner of the 2024 Nikon Photo of the Year Prize for 'Funeral at Al-Aqsa', as the Walkley Foundation announces finalists for the 2024 Walkley Awards photographic categories.
The 2024 International Journalism Festival has wrapped up in Perugia, and the Walkleys' Corinne Podger was there. Read her wrap of the conference to catch up on key themes - from the unavoidable AI to new approaches to monetising journalism,…
The 2023 winners of the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism have produced their finished works, Marian Faa covering Vanuatu and Sefan Armbruster reporting on the Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.
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, Queensland) and Jake Nowakowski (Herald Sun photojournalist, Victoria).
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. The program…