Walkley News

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...

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...

An ABC investigation into domestic violence in faith communities has won the top honour at the 2018 Our Watch Awards for excellence in reporting on violence against women. The reports, by Julia Baird, Hayley Gleeson, Debra Jopson, Sarah Malik and...

Three Australian journalists, Myles Morgan (SBS), Phoebe Wearne (The West Australian), and Angela MacDonald-Smith (The Australian Financial Review), along with Walkleys multimedia manager Kate Golden are on exchange in the the land of kimchi and K-pop thanks to DFAT and the Australia-Korea Foundation. In this post…

Three Australian journalists were in Seoul last week for an Australia-Korea Journalist Exchange. Walkleys program manager Clare Fletcher accompanied them, and sent us some snapshots of the media scene there. Paywalls, social media, innovation and mobile first strategies — our…

A journalism exchange took Michael Janda, Alexandra Lee and Jason Whittaker to South Korea, where they found a country riding an economic and cultural wave while looking nervously north towards its perpetual enemy. We’re picked up at Incheon International Airport by a tour guide,…