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Finalists announced for Walkley Foundation’s 2025 Mid-Year Media Prizes

Finalists for the Walkley Foundation’s 2025 Mid-Year Media Prizes have been announced today. Peer-judged and selected on the basis of journalistic excellence, the Prizes include the John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards, Coverage of Science…

WalkleyMagMay 22, 2025

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Creator Journalism: New pathways in digital storytelling

CAPTION ABOVE: All Journalists are Content Creators panel at the International Journalism Festival, Perugia, in April. Picture: Francesco Cuoccio #IJF25 Rob Layton was a speaker and workshop convenor at the International Journalism Festival, and MojoFest. He is also Assistant Professor…

WalkleyMagMay 15, 2025

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‘It’s a really special opportunity to be face-to-face with some of the biggest names in our industry.’

In the final week before the inaugural Masters & McKenzie Investigative Journalism Fellowship closes applications on 12 May, we spoke to Pamela Williams, chair of the Walkley Public Fund Committee, about why this opportunity was created and what she hopes…

WalkleyMagMay 5, 2025

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Walkley Foundation announces new Judging Board members

The Walkley Foundation has welcomed nine incoming members of the Walkley Judging Board: Christine Ahern, (Today, Nine, Victoria), Tom Dusevic (The Australian, NSW), Karla Grant (NITV & SBS, NSW), Richard Guilliatt (freelance journalist and author, NSW), Saffron Howden (National Affairs…

WalkleyMagApril 24, 2025

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Walkley Foundation announces the Masters & McKenzie Investigative Journalism Fellowship

The Walkley Foundation is proud to announce a new fellowship for mid-career Australian investigative journalists to develop their investigative skills. The Masters & McKenzie Investigative Journalism Fellowship is named for multi-Walkley Award-winning investigative journalists Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie, who…

WalkleyMagApril 17, 2025

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$180k funding for 11 Solutions Journalism projects announced

Eleven new Australian journalism projects will share in just over $180,000 of funding support, thanks to the new Walkley Solutions Journalism Fund.

WalkleyMagMarch 6, 2025

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The first Gold Walkley-winner, Catherine Martin: At the top of her grade

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.

WalkleyMagMarch 5, 2025

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Summer reading, sorted: The 2024 Walkley Book Award longlist

Looking for your next essential summer read? Look no further than the nine books longlisted for the 2024 Walkley Book Award.

WalkleyMagDecember 12, 2024

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Nick Moir talks about Australia’s wild weather and the future of photojournalism after his 2024 Walkley win

By James Gorman Australian photographer Nick Moir shares his concerns about Australia’s changing weather cycles and his insights about how to make it in the visual media industry after being named Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year at the 2024…

James GormanDecember 12, 2024

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Nick McKenzie takes us behind the scenes of a Gold Walkley-winning investigation

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.

WalkleyMagNovember 28, 2024