The 2024 Walkley Awards winners have been named
The winners of the 2024 Walkley Awards have been announced.
The ‘Building Bad’ investigation – an undertaking done by The Age’s Ben Schneiders; Nick McKenzie from 60 Minutes, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald; 60 Minutes’ Amelia Ballinger and Garry McNab; Nine News’ Reid Butler, and The Australian Financial Review’s David Marin-Guzman – was confirmed as the winner of the Gold Walkey.
“An incredible, courageous feat of investigative journalism with huge ramifications. A story Australian journalists have been trying to tell for decades,” the Walkley judges commented.
“Nick McKenzie and his team finally nailed it, in a massive cross-platform, inter-newsroom collaboration.”
Overall, the awards – dedicated to acknowledging top-tier journalism – contained 30 categories, with other winners including Nick Moir for the Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year; Andrew Fowler and his book, ‘Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty‘, for the Walkley Book Award, and more.
The night also saw the Walkley Foundation’s director board honour business journalist Robert Gottliebsen “for his Outstanding Contribution to Journalism”.
“There were more than 1100 entries in this year’s Walkley Awards from journalists, photographers, documentary makers, authors, cartoonists and producers,” revealed Shona Martyn, the Walkley Foundation’s chief executive.
“The quality of their work was extremely high this year proving the excellence of Australia’s leading journalists. My congratulations to the winners and the finalists.”
The full list of the 2024 Walkley Award winners:
PRINT/TEXT NEWS REPORT
Carrie Fellner, Matt Davidson, Matthew Absalom-Wong and Michael Evans, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, ‘The factory that contaminated the world’ (1,2,3)
FEATURE WRITING SHORT (UNDER 4000 WORDS)
Award Partner The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Ben Walter, Island, ‘The Only Fish: Flathead Decline in Tasmania’
FEATURE WRITING LONG (OVER 4000 WORDS)
Sarah Krasnostein, The Monthly, ‘Peace in the Home: The trial of Malka Leifer’
ALL MEDIA: COMMENTARY, ANALYSIS, OPINION AND CRITIQUE
Award Partner Thomson Geer Lawyers
David Leser, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, ‘The war in Gaza: Not in my Jewish name’ (1,2,3)
ALL MEDIA: EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM
Faster, higher, stronger team, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, ‘Faster, higher, stronger’ (1,2,3)
ALL MEDIA: COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson and Tilda Colling, The Australian, ‘NT Schools in Crisis’ (1,2,3)
ALL MEDIA: COVERAGE OF COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS
Award Partner BHP
Matthew Kelly, Newcastle Herald, ‘Three decades on the streets’ (1,2,3)
ALL MEDIA: CARTOON OF THE YEAR
Cathy Wilcox, The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Break glass’
ALL MEDIA: SPORTS JOURNALISM
Award Partner University of Queensland
Michael Warner, Herald Sun, ‘White Line Fever: AFL illicit drugs crisis’ (1,2,3)
SPORT PHOTOGRAPHY
Quinn Rooney, Getty Images, ‘Australians in the Pool’
AUDIO SHORT (UNDER 20 MINUTES)
Award Partner ABC
Ayla Darling and Hannah Palmer, Triple J, Hack, and ABC Investigations, ‘Behind closed doors: How one child’s voice exposed the dangers of rape inside mental health hospitals’
AUDIO LONG (OVER 20 MINUTES)
Award Partner McGrathNicol
Paul Farrell and the Background Briefing Team, ABC, Background Briefing, ‘Stop and Search’ (1,2,3)
DIGITAL MEDIA: INNOVATION JOURNALISM
Award Partner Master Builders Australia
Guardian Australia team, Guardian Australia, ‘Leaving Gaza’
ALL MEDIA: SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Award Partner The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard and Amelia Ballinger, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘The Pezzullo files’ (1,2,3)
ALL MEDIA: COVERAGE OF A MAJOR NEWS EVENT OR ISSUE
Award Partner Ogilvy
Chris Reason and Simon Hydzik, 7NEWS, ‘Israel-Hamas War’
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
David Gray, AFP, ‘Walk to freedom’
ALL MEDIA: SPECIALIST AND BEAT REPORTING
Award Partner MEAA
Linda Morris and Eryk Bagshaw, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times, ‘The portrait Gina Rinehart doesn’t want you to see’ (1,2,3)
ALL MEDIA: BUSINESS JOURNALISM
Award Partner ING Australia
Linton Besser and Ninah Kopel, ABC, 7.30 and ABC Investigations, ‘Netstrata’ (1,2,3)
FEATURE/PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY
Diego Fedele, Getty Images, ‘In the Shadow of a Deadly Sky’
TELEVISION/VIDEO: CAMERAWORK
Matthew Davis, ABC, Foreign Correspondent, ‘From the high Arctic, to the hustle of Seoul’
TELEVISION/VIDEO: NEWS REPORTING
Award Partner Seven News
Ben Lewis, SBS World News, ‘October 7 Attacks’
TELEVISION/VIDEO: CURRENT AFFAIRS SHORT (UNDER 20 MINUTES)
Award Partner SBS
Nick McKenzie, Amelia Ballinger and Michael Bachelard, Nine, 60 Minutes, ‘The Power Player’
TELEVISION/VIDEO: CURRENT AFFAIRS LONG (OVER 20 MINUTES)
Award Partner TEN News First
Building Bad Team – The Age, SMH, AFR and 60 Minutes, Nine, 60 Minutes, ‘Building Bad’
ALL MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM
Award Partner Sydney Airport
Dateline Team, SBS, Dateline, ‘Finding Yusuf’ (1,2)
ALL MEDIA: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Award Partner Guardian Australia
Chris Reason, 7NEWS, ‘The Bishop of Broome’
WALKLEY DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Award Partner MinterEllison
Katrina McGowan, Janine Hosking, Mat Cornwell and Carrie Fellner, iKandy Films and Stan, How To Poison A Planet
WALKLEY BOOK AWARD
Award Partner Banki Haddock Fiora
Andrew Fowler, Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty, Melbourne University Publishing
NIKON-WALKLEY PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Award Partner Nikon
Nick Moir, The Sydney Morning Herald
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO JOURNALISM
Robert Gottliebsen AM
2024 GOLD WALKLEY
Building Bad Team – The Age, SMH, AFR and 60 Minutes, Nine, ‘Building Bad’
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