Kevin Rudd may have questioned her dress sense, but Fairfax Radio’s Latika Bourke has been named the 2010 Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year.
She won the award for her coverage of the Liberal leadership crisis that saw Tony Abbott topple Malcolm Turnbull.
The Walkley Advisory Board said that her “pioneering” use of Twitter as a journalism tool was another factor in her winning the accolade.
PRINT NEWS WINNER – Erik Jensen, The Sydney Morning Herald – “The blackbuck stops here: zoo caught misleading public”
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TELEVISION WINNER – Sophie McNeill, SBS TV – “Afghanistan’s shame”
RADIO WINNER – Latika Bourke – Fairfax Radio, 2UE – “Tony Abbott has the numbers and will challenge Malcolm Turnbull for the Liberal Leadership”
ONLINE WINNER – Drew Ambrose, abc.net.au – “Black Saturday”
PHOTO WINNER – James Brickwood, the Sun Herald “Mahon Pool”, “Warehouse – Illegal Party Scene”, “Parkour – In Motion”
The chairman of the Walkley Advisory Board, ABC Stateline presenter Quentin Dempster, said: “These young practitioners are the future of journalism and it is wonderful to see their judgement and intellectual honesty on display.”
Bourke will fly to the US and UK to visit major media organisations in London and New York, with $5,000 spending money.
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