Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year, Media Diversity and more: Winners announced for 2019 Walkley Mid-Year celebration June 26, 2019 SYDNEY — The Walkley Foundation tonight announced winners for this year’s suite of awards, prizes, scholarships and opportunities that comprise...
WalkleyMagJune 26, 2019
Walkley Foundation announces inaugural winner for the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism Ben Bohane has been named the inaugural winner of the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism, a $10,000 reporting grant awarded annually by the Walkley Foundation. Bohane…
WalkleyMagJune 26, 2019
Open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese, Members of the Parliament of Australia The Australian Federal Police raids on the home of News Corp Australia journalist Annika Smethurst and on the offices of the…
WalkleyMagJune 14, 2019
A statement from the Walkley Foundation The Walkley Foundation supports journalists’ rights to do their job, to report vigorously in the public interest, and to protect their sources and whistleblowers who speak out at great personal cost. We are deeply…
WalkleyMagJune 5, 2019
Finalists announced for Walkley Mid-Year Celebration May 29, 2019 The Walkley Foundation is delighted to announce the finalists for its 2019 Mid-Year Celebration. Peer-judged and selected on the basis of journalistic excellence, the Mid-Year Celebration suite includes the Young Australian...
WalkleyMagMay 29, 2019
For the first time in our 60-year history, the Walkley Foundation is staging a public campaign asking Australians to back quality journalism. Walkleys chief executive Louisa Graham shares how and why the campaign was created. Walkley Award-winning journalists are the…
WalkleyMagMay 23, 2019
Three journalists from Australia and New Zealand will have the opportunity to build their newsroom leadership skills as part of the new Google News Initiative Newsroom Leadership Program at Columbia Journalism School. As part of a program to help journalists…
WalkleyMagApril 24, 2019
The Walkley Foundation has announced that it will fund 11 journalism projects in the public interest in this inaugural round of the Walkley Grants for Freelance Journalism. The judging committee selected the winners from a field of 117 applicants on…
WalkleyMagApril 5, 2019
WALKLEY FOUNDATION LAUNCHES SEAN DORNEY GRANT FOR PACIFIC JOURNALISM Veteran reporter Sean Dorney has given his name to a $10,000 journalism grant, to be awarded annually by the Walkley Foundation commencing in 2019. The Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism will…
WalkleyMagApril 5, 2019
The Walkley Foundation and Nine News are calling for bright final-year university students and recent graduates aged 26 or under to apply for a 14-week scholarship with stipend. Now in its seventh year, the Jacoby-Walkley Scholarship is targeted at young…
WalkleyMagMarch 18, 2019
The Walkley Foundation is delighted to welcome a new staff member to the Walkley team. Based in Sydney, John Bergin will be project manager responsible for rolling out the Google News Initiative training program in Australia and New Zealand, a...
WalkleyMagFebruary 4, 2019
14 outstanding journalists from around Australia have been selected as the inaugural Our Watch Fellows. The journalists, from a wide range of backgrounds and media organisations, will attend a series of three retreats in February, March and June 2019. The...
WalkleyMagDecember 6, 2018
The Australian’s investigative journalist Hedley Thomas and composer/producer Slade Gibson were announced as the winners of Australian journalism’s highest honour in Brisbane tonight. The Teacher’s Pet explored the 1982 disappearance of Sydney mother Lyn Dawson, bringing investigative reporting to 27...
WalkleyMagNovember 22, 2018
As well as unveiling Walkley Award-winners in 30 categories, some major industry news was announced at the 63rd Walkley Awards Gala Dinner in Brisbane on Thursday November 22. Walkley Foundation chief executive Louisa Graham announced that the first round of...
WalkleyMagNovember 22, 2018
Get your fix of Australia’s best journalism this Thursday November 22. It’s the week we’ve all been waiting for. A fantastic crop of 2018 Walkley finalists have been judged by their peers as the best journalists of the year, and...
WalkleyMagNovember 16, 2018
The Walkley Foundation today announced the shortlist for the Walkley Book Award, part of Australia’s most prestigious journalism accolades, the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The Walkley Book Award celebrates Australian writers who take enduring subjects from news, eyewitness...
WalkleyMagNovember 8, 2018
Finalists in the 63nd annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism were announced tonight at simultaneous events in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Journalists around Australia submitted over 1,300 entries, which were judged by more than 100 senior industry representatives. The...
WalkleyMagOctober 18, 2018
Lukas Coch has been named the winner of the 2018 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year Prize for “Linda Burney Airborne”. It’s a news image rich in emotion and deeper significance, as described by photographer Lukas Coch: “For Burney it was...
WalkleyMagOctober 11, 2018