Yaara Bou Melhem named young journalist of the year
SBS reporter Yaara Bou Melhem has been named the 2011 
Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the year.
Bou Melhem won the award for Freedom’s Call – her video investigation into the people’s democracy movement in Syria.
“Yaara took significant personal risks by venturing into Syria and her work has shone a light on the lengths to which the Syrian government would go to silence its critics,” Judges said.
Other catagory winners were:
PRINT NEWS WINNER
- Rosie Squires, The Sunday Telegraph – “Our Shame”
RADIO WINNER
- John Connell, freelance, ABC Radio National – “Whatever happened to OV78?”
ONLINE WINNER
- Asher Moses, Fairfax online – “Revealed: how Vodafone dealers bend the rules posing as customers”
PHOTOGRAPHY WINNER
- Harrison Saragossi, freelance, The Brisbane Times
Bou Melhem will fly to media organisations in London and New York, with $5,000 spending money.
