Walkleys reveal mid-year journalism award winners and innovation fund investments
The Walkley Foundation last night announced the winners of its mid-year awards along with projects receiving seed money from the Walkley Media Incubator and Innovation Fund.
Five projects were awarded funding under the Walkley Media Incubator and Innovation Fund program and 15 journalists won awards. Paul Farrell, who recently moved to BuzzFeed, won Young Journalist of the Year for his Nauru Files stories for The Guardian.
This year, the Walkleys added awards for industrial relations journalists, and for arts journalists and critics while there were eight seperate categories for young reporters.
Included among the five projects granted funding under the incubator and innovation fund there were two data projects, a community-powered news site, a fake-news-fighting news platform, and a podcast recommendation service.
The full list of winners is below.
Walkley Media Incubator and Innovation Fund investments
Burn the Register by Jackson Gothe-Snape: $30,000
Data Explorer by Kaho Cheung: $10,000
(Prize for Data Innovation in Journalism, presented by iSentia)
Tiny Moguls by Sheree Joseph: $10,000
The City Standard by Farrin Foster and Josh Fanning: $5,000
The Podcast Expansion and Recommendation Project by Kristofer Lawson: $5,000
Sponsors of the Innovation program included Google, iSentia, BlueChilli and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
Industrial Relations Reporting Award
Ben Schneiders, Royce Millar and Nick Toscano, The Age
Macca’s workers underpaid by millions
Shopped Out
Sold out: quarter of a million workers underpaid in union deals
Award partners: Unions NSW, UTS, AI Group, ACTU and Australian Super
Women’s Leadership in Media Award
Catherine Fox, ABC Online, The Australian and New South Publishing
Recruitment drive boosts number of women working on railways
Elizabeth Broderick, Lance Hockridge and the Male Champions of Change
Stop Fixing Women (Book)
Freelance Journalist of the Year
Jo Chandler, The Monthly and Background Briefing, ABC Radio National
Climate of Change
Arts Journalism Award
John Shand, Johnshand.com.au and The Sydney Morning Herald
Meaning It: Truth, Trump Universality and Cultural Amnesia
Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism
Kate Hennessy, The Guardian
The Drover’s Wife review – plot twist leaves Australian classic spinning on its axis
Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards
SHORTFORM JOURNALISM
Tom Minear, Herald Sun
Minister’s dog act
Gone to the dogs
Boned
LONGFORM FEATURE OR SPECIAL
Carl Smith, The Science Show, ABC Radio National ABC
Bionic Bodies
COVERAGE OF COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL AFFAIRS
Michael McGowan and Carrie Fellner, Newcastle Herald
The foam and the fury
VISUAL STORYTELLING
Dave May, SBS Viceland
Bullying’s Deadly Toll
Australia’s Only Town Against Same-Sex Marriage
Suburban Exorcists
PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM
Paul Farrell, Guardian Australia
The Nauru Files
STUDENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Christiane Barro, Mojo News, Monash University
‘I would have sat every day of those 20 years in jail’
‘It’s not our fault’: Dole recipients say they’re not bludging the system
‘It’s safer for everyone’: heroin addicts plead for a safe injecting room
JACOBY-WALKLEY SCHOLARSHIP
Lydia Bilton, The University of Sydney
Scholarship partners: Nine Network and AFTRS
WALKLEY YOUNG AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Paul Farrell, Guardian Australia
The Nauru Files
The Walkley Advisory Board, represented by Kate McClymont, Claire Harvey, Jonny Richards and Angelos Frangopoulos, said of the overall winner: “Paul Farrell’s remarkable release of the Nauru Files produced shockwaves that are still reverberating in Australia and around the world. It is the essence of great journalism. We were also impressed by the innovative presentation of the leaked reports. A very deserving winner.”
Farrell will fly to the USA with Cathay Pacific to undertake two weeks of work experience; he and other category winners will also receive mentoring from the Walkley Advisory Board.
