Al Jazeera English senior digital producer Ali Rae won the 2019 Walkley Award for Television/Video: Current Affairs Short for her self-shot, edited, presented and produced series “All Hail The Algorithm”.
Walkley Foundation chair Kerry O’Brien spoke frankly about the risks facing Australian journalism: “Freedom is usually eroded gradually... Its loss is not necessarily felt day by day, but we will certainly know when it’s gone.” This year, for a brief…
Herald Sun’s “Lawyer X” wins 2019 Gold Walkley Award Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon have won Australian journalism’s highest honour in Sydney tonight, for their reporting of the “Lawyer X Informer Scandal” for the Herald Sun. A deep and sustained...
Get your fix of Australia’s best journalism this Thursday November 28 It’s the week we’ve all been waiting for. A fantastic crop of 2019 Walkley finalists have been selected by their peers as the best journalists of the year, and…
NSW will be home to the esteemed Walkley Awards gala for two years, attracting the country’s best journalists, photographers, editors and media professionals to Sydney and regional NSW to celebrate Australia’s rich media landscape. The NSW Government has partnered with…
2019 Walkley Book Award shortlisted finalists announced November 7, 2019 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...
Finalists in the 64th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism were announced tonight at simultaneous events in Sydney and Melbourne. Journalists around Australia submitted over 1,300 entries, which were judged by more than 100 senior industry representatives. The finalists...
The three finalists in the prestigious Business Journalism category of the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism were announced today in Sydney, at a lunch hosted by ING. The 2019 finalists for the Walkley Award for Business Journalism are: Adele...
Jason South has been named the winner of the 2019 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year Prize for “Running the gauntlet”. The Nikon-Walkley judges thought Jason South’s image of George Pell for The Age managed to tell the biggest news story...
Top tips for photographers entering the Walkleys Photo editor and member of the Walkley Judging Board, Mags King, shares her advice for photographers. As a member of the Walkley Judging Board I, along with the other board members, select the…
The Australian “The Teacher’s Pet” Hedley Thomas wrote and recorded an average of more than 15,000 words each week as new informants came forward in what became a live, unfolding investigation into the disappearance of Sydney mother Lyn Dawson. A…