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Finalists announced for 2018 Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism and Walkley Documentary Award

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

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ABC wins Gold Our Watch Award – all winners announced in 2018 violence against women media awards

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...

WalkleyMagSeptember 12, 2018

Laura Murphy Oates, winner of the 2018 Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the year

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Winners announced for 2018 Walkley Mid-Year awards

SYDNEY — The Walkley Foundation tonight announced winners for this year’s suite of mid-year awards. Peer-judged and selected on the basis of journalistic excellence, the Mid-Year Awards encompass seven awards, including the Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards, as well...

WalkleyMagJuly 18, 2018

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Finalists announced for 2018 Walkley Mid-Year Awards

Finalists announced for Walkley Mid-Year Awards The Walkley Foundation is delighted to announce finalists for its 2018 Mid-Year Awards. Peer-judged and selected on the basis of journalistic excellence, the Mid-Year Awards suite includes the Young Australian Journalist of the Year...

WalkleyMagMay 30, 2018

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2017 Walkley Winner: Jon Kudelka

The Australian “From The Heart” The Uluru Statement arose from extensive nationwide dialogues with Indigenous groups on constitutional recognition, followed by a four-day First Nations National Constitutional Convention. The result was a call for the establishment of a First Nations…

adminNovember 29, 2017

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Michael Bachelard and Kate Geraghty win Gold at 62nd Walkley Awards for Mosul coverage

Fairfax Media’s Michael Bachelard and Kate Geraghty have won the Gold Walkley Award for their extraordinary work, “Surviving IS: Stories of Mosul”. The ancient city of Mosul’s devastation by Islamic State may feel unthinkably tragic and distant, but Michael Bachelard…

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2016 Walkley Award Winners: SBS Australia online team

SBS Australia, “My Grandmother’s Lingo” My grandmother’s lingo A young Aboriginal woman, Angelina Joshua from in the remote community of Ngukurr, tells her story of fighting to preserve her ancestral language, Marra. This online interactive documentary, produced in consultation with…

adminNovember 29, 2016

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Photo of the year unveiled and finalists announced for 2016 Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism and Walkley Documentary Award

Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year unveiled; finalists announced for 2016 Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism and Walkley Documentary Award Andrew Quilty’s “The Man on The Operating Table” has been named the 2016 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year. The image…

adminOctober 13, 2016

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Postcards from Korea

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…

WalkleyMagSeptember 28, 2016

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60 years of Walkleys, starting with a stateless refugee

By Jacquelyn Hole, executive producer of the 2015 Walkleys With the 60th Walkleys coming up next week, we’re in a remembering mood. So we dug through the archives and found these great moments from the past decades. 1956 In the…

WalkleyMagNovember 25, 2015