Gold Walkley for Gary Hughes while Fairfax picks up the most trophies

Tim Burrowes

November 27, 2009 10:46

Fairfax narrowly seized the bragging rights at last night’s Walkley Awards with nine trophies to News Ltd’s eight.

However, News Ltd’s Gary Hughes won the Gold Walkley for his first person reporting on the Victorian bush fire disaster for The Australian.

Meanwhile, the ABC picked up six trophies, the Seven Network four and SBS two.

The only trophy collected by PBL was for Tracy Grimshaw for her interviews on Nine’s A Current Affair.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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