Our Watch Awards
The winners of the 2019 Our Watch Award were Sarah Dingle and the Background Briefing Team, Radio National, ABC for “Australia On Trial: Carers who kill, Slavery in the suburbs, Murder on Trial”
The 2018 Our Watch Awards winners were:
Best News Coverage: Jason Walls, NT News, “Women fleeing domestic violence forced to ride in paddy wagons”, “Domestic crisis: It’s time to stop this cycle of violence”, “Survivors forced to relive the nightmare”, “Former NT cop assaulted his police officer wife”
Best Use of Social Media: Jan Fran, The Feed, SBS VICELAND and The Feed’s Facebook page, “The Frant”
Best Series or Special: Julia Baird, Hayley Gleeson, Debra Jopson, Sarah Malik and Rocco Fazzari, ABC News Online, “Religion and domestic violence investigation”
Best Local and Community Journalism: Nicole Ferrie, Emma D’Agostino and Natalie Croxon, The Bendigo Advertiser, “Together, we are an ocean”
Best Journalism Campaign: Julia Baird, Hayley Gleeson, Debra Jopson, Sarah Malik and Amani Haydar, ABC News Online, “Religion and domestic violence investigation”
Best Longform: Julia Baird and Hayley Gleeson and Rocco Fazzari, ABC News Online, “Clergy wives speak out about domestic violence”
Overall Gold Our Watch Award: Julia Baird, Hayley Gleeson, Debra Jopson, Sarah Malik and Rocco Fazzari, ABC News Online, “Religion and domestic violence investigation”
Background and more information
The creation of the Our Watch Awards in 2015 coincided with the launch of the Media Representations of Violence Against Women report, which examined the nature of reporting of violence against women in Australia in 2015. This research from Our Watch and Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) was the first national study of its kind.
The Our Watch Awards are funded by the Australian Government Department of Communications and the Arts.
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