Walkley glory for Fairfax journalists as Nine’s Oakes takes top honour
Fairfax Media dominated last night’s Walkley Awards, with the company’s journalists winning 11 trophies to The ABC’s seven and News Ltd’s six.
The night also saw vindication for the Sydney Morning Herald’s chief correspondent Paul McGeogh with his controversial first person piece on the Israeli assault on the Gaza flotilla winning best print news report.
At the time his phrase: “They hunted like hyenas – moving up and ahead on the flanks; pushing in, then peeling away; and finally, lagging before lunging,” was attacked by the pro-Israel lobby as showing bias.
The SMH was also the masthead with the most wins – with three for its print journalists and one for online.
Other prominent wins saw Kerry O’Brien win the Walkley for journalism leadership, which came on his last night as host of The 7.30PM Report and the Gold Walkley go to Nine’s Laurie Oakes for his agenda-setting coverage of Labor leaks during the election campaign.
The Walkley Awards are seen as the main awards for Australian journalism and have taken place since 1956.
The winners:
• Print: Best Print, Wire Service Journalism: News Report
Paul McGeough, The Sydney Morning Herald, “Prayers, tear gas and terror”
• Radio News and Current Affairs Reporting
Stephen Long, ABC Radio, PM, “A Super Scandal”
• Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special
Kristina Kukolja, SBS, World View, “Echoes of Srebrenica”
• Magazine Feature Writing
David Marr, Quarterly Essay, “Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd”
• All Media: Best Scoop of the Year
Lenore Taylor, The Sydney Morning Herald, “ETS off the agenda until late next term”
• Best Cartoon
Mark Knight, The Herald Sun, “Moving forward”
• Best Artwork
Eric Lobbecke, The Australian, “Rudd’s dangerous climate retreat”
• Outstanding Continuous Coverage of an Issue or Event
Stephen Fitzpatrick, The Australian, “Sri Lankan asylum seeker stand-off”
• Newspaper Feature Writing
Pamela Williams, The Australian Financial Review, “Labor’s trial”
• News Photography
Brett Costello, The Daily Telegraph, “Jessica”
• All Media: Business Journalism
Michael Bachelard, The Sunday Age, “The shadow side of a cardboard king”
• All Media: Social Equity Journalism
John Blades, ABC Radio National, 360 documentaries, “The too hard basket”
• Photographic Essay
Phil Hillyard, The Daily Telegraph, “Prime Minister Julia Gillard”
• All Media: International Journalism
Mary Ann Jolley and Andrew Geoghegan, ABC TV, Foreign Correspondent, “Fly away children”
• Television: Television News and Current Affairs Camera
Neale Maude, ABC TV, Four Corners, “A careful war”
• Television: Television Current Affairs, Feature, Documentary or Special (more than 20 minutes)
Sophie McNeill and Geoff Parish, SBS TV, Dateline, “Questions from Oruzgan”
• Television: Television Current Affairs Reporting (less than 20 minutes)
Fouad Hady and Ashley Smith, SBS TV, Dateline, “Iraq’s deadly legacy”
• All Media: Investigative Journalism
Linton Besser, The Sydney Morning Herald, “The wrong stuff”
• All Media: Broadcast and Online Interviewing
Kerry O’Brien, ABC TV, The 7.30 Report, “The Rudd and Abbott interviews”
• All Media: Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique
Andrew Cornell, The Australian Financial Review, “Once bitten: How Australia’s banks dodged the crisis”
• Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year
Jason South, The Age
• Best Online Journalism
Andrew Meares, smh.com.au and nationaltimes.com.au, “Phonearoids@mearesy: looking back at moving forward”
• The Walkley Book Award
Shirley Shackleton, The Circle of Silence: A personal testimony before, during and after Balibo (Murdoch Books)
• Journalism leadership
Kerry O’Brien, ABC TV presenter, The 7.30 Report
• Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism
Cameron Forbes
• Gold Walkley / Television News Reporting
Laurie Oakes, Nine Network, “Labor leaks”
• Daily Life / Feature Photography
Lisa Wiltse, Getty Images, “Potosi”
• Best Three Headings
Warwick McFadyen, The Age, “Heads and tales”
• All Media: Coverage of Indigenous Affairs
Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, ABC TV, Contact
• All Media: Coverage of Community and Regional Affairs
Nicole Hasham and Laurel-Lee Roderick, The Illawarra Mercury, “Fund collapse ruins families”
• All Media: Best Sports Journalism
Adrian Proszenko, The Sun-Herald, “Melbourne Storm rorts salary cap”
• Sport Photography
Michael Dodge, heraldsun.com.au, “Seizing the moment”
Further details on the winners
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non of these journalistic pygmies have the kahunas to report the significance of NIST’s reluctant admission that building 7 fell at freefall speed and the implications of such a fact, or the unrefuted peer reviewed scientific evidence that proves explosives were used to bring down the world trade center builings on 9/11.
useless schmucks the lot of them.
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Mr Oakes,
“Political Pygmies” Where is the Ect,Etc.?
An intriging few words, but I would like a following explanation please,particulary on Tony Abbot.
Regards Paul Guyton.
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