The Age’s Julia Medew Young Journalist of the Year

Tim Burrowes

June 26, 2009 10:10

The Young Australian Journalist of the Year was last night announced as Julia Medew of The Age.

The Walkey Foundation-organised event saw Medew recognised for a piece on statistical manipulation within the healthcare sector.

Medew, a health reporter, also won the print news category. She told the audience: “I’m particularly happy that a print journalist can still win this award and I really wish the Australian population would love reading newspapers as much as I do, and appreciated the quality and the hard work that goes into producing them every day. If you judge them fairly they are an extraordinary product and I hope we continue to see the funding and resoruces to keep it that way.”

As well as a tour of newsrooms in London and the US, she also wins $5000 spending money.

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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.