The finalists in the 64th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism have been announced.
They were selected by more than 100 senior industry representatives from more than 1,300 entries.
The Walkley Award winners will be announced at a gala dinner on Thursday, November 28 in Sydney.
PRINT/TEXT NEWS REPORT
Award Partner Media Super
● Michael Koziol and Jennifer Duke, The Sydney Morning Herald, “ Guthrie ordered to sack top ABC reporter ”, “ ABC chair's 'bias' email ” and “Revealed: ABC boss' secret dossier ”
● Kirsty Needham, The Sydney Morning Herald , The Age and The Canberra Times, “ Xinjiang - the buildings where people go in, but don't come out ”
● Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar , The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, “ SourDough : Australia's High-End Restaurant Scandal ”
PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM
● Anne Connolly, Mary Fallon and Patricia Drum , Four Corners , ABC TV and ABC Digital,
“ Who Cares? ”
● Louise Milligan and the Four Corners Team , Four Corners , ABC TV and ABC News
Online, “ Guilty : An investigation into George Pell ”
● Mark Willacy, Peter Cronau, Louie Eroglu and Naomi Selvaratnam , Four Corners , ABC
TV, “ Inside the Watch House ”
INNOVATION
● ABC News Team, abc.net.au, “ Satellite storytelling ”
● Kylie Boltin, Matt Smith and Tamara Dean , SBS , “ Missing: The Story of Abducted
School Girl Wendy Pfeiffer and the Pitjantjatjara Trackers who found her ”
● Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Exposed & ABC Digital Team , ABC, “ EXPOSED: The Case of
Keli Lane ”
HEADLINE, CAPTION OR HOOK
Award Partner Qantas
● Anthony DeCeglie , The West Australian , “FAKE EWES”, “PREY TO GOD” and “THE ESSENCE OF HUMANITY”
● Baz McAlister , The Courier-Mail , “Time to Haul Ass”, “Give 'Em a Finch and They'll Take a Mine” “Halal... Is it Meals You're Sooking For”
● Duska Sulicich , The Age and The Sunday Age , “The Instagram Generation”, “Bold and the Baroque” and “The Stringer”
ESSENCE OF HUMANITY”
● Baz McAlister , The Courier-Mail , “Time to Haul Ass”, “Give 'Em a Finch and They'll Take a
Mine” “Halal... Is it Meals You're Sooking For”
● Duska Sulicich , The Age and The Sunday Age , “The Instagram Generation”, “Bold and
the Baroque” and “The Stringer”
FEATURE WRITING LONG (OVER 4000 WORDS)
Award Partner UQ
● Amanda Hooton and Joanne McCarthy , Good Weekend Magazine , The Sydney Morning
Herald and The Age , “The Nightmare Within”
● Cameron Stewart , The Weekend Australian Magazine , “Joe Hockey’s Game”
● Sam Vincent , The Monthly , “A Nagging Doubt: The Retrial of David Eastman”
FEATURE WRITING SHORT (UNDER 4000 WORDS)
Award Partner The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age
● Michael Barnes , Good Weekend , The Sydney Morning Herald , “ Counting down the days
in God's waiting room ”
● Martin McKenzie-Murray , The Saturday Paper , “ Rosie Batty: the private toll of public grief ”
● James Oaten, Danny Morgan and Jane Cowan , ABC, “ Catching a Catfish ”
COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
Award Partner PwC
● Lorena Allam, Guardian Australia and the University of Newcastle’s Colonial
Frontiers Massacre Project , Guardian Australia , “ The Killing Times ”
● Andy Burns and Geoff Thompson , 7.30 , ABC, “ Standing Tall ”
● Amy McQuire , Griffith Review 65: Crimes and Punishments , “ White justice, black
suffering: Extracting false confessions ”
COVERAGE OF COMMUNITY OR REGIONAL AFFAIRS
Award Partner BHP
● Caleb Cluff , The Ballarat Courier , “ The Boys' Club : Female prison staff reveal brutal
culture of abuse ”
● Donna Page and Nick Bielby , Newcastle Herald , “ Dirty Deeds ”
● Sam Tomlin and ABC Kimberley Team , ABC , “ Coverage of the Kimberley suicide crisis ”
CARTOON
● Pat Campbell , The Canberra Times , “Christchurch Fern”
● Matt Golding , The Age , “Tip of the Iceberg”
● Jon Kudelka , The Australian , “Thirteen O'Clock”
SPORTS JOURNALISM
● Malcolm Knox and Nigel Gladstone , The Sun-Herald , “ Caught Out : Cricket's Inflated
Player Numbers Revealed ”
● Samantha Lane , The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, “ Adam Goodes : My love for
the game died inside me ”
● Catherine Marciniak , Compass , ABC TV, ABC iView and ABC Australia YouTube
channel, “ Leagueability ”
SPORT PHOTOGRAPHY
Award Partner Nikon
● Craig Golding, AAP, “Invictus Games 2018”
● Quinn Rooney, Getty Images, “The Art of Sports Photography”
● Cameron Spencer, Getty Images, “H20”
RADIO/AUDIO NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
Award Partner ABC
● Anne Connolly and Background Briefing team , ABC Radio National, “ The sexual abuse
scandal nobody's talking about ”
● Adam Harvey , AM , ABC, “ The Survivors of ISIS ”
● Gareth Parker , 6PR, “ BHP royalties fight ”
RADIO/AUDIO FEATURE
● Ruby Jones, Neil Mercer and Team Unravel True Crime , ABC, “ Unravel Season 2 :
Barrenjoey Road ”
● Kirsti Melville , Earshot , ABC Radio National, “ The Ghosts of Wittenoom ”
● Robyn Ravlich , Earshot , ABC Radio National, “ Robert Manne's Voice ”
PRODUCTION
Award Partner Google News Initiative
● Fadzil Hamzah , The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph , “ The Ibrahim Tapes ”
● Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Exposed & ABC Digital Team , ABC, “ EXPOSED: The Case of
Keli Lane ”
● Ali Rae , Al Jazeera English , “ All Hail The Algorithm ”
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Award Partner Nine News
● Al Jazeera Investigations Unit , Al Jazeera Media Network , “ How to Sell a Massacre ”
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● Josh Gerstein and Zoya Sheftalovich , POLITICO , “ 'That's just insane' : Australia's secret
deal with the U.S. ”
● Sophie McNeill , Four Corners , ABC, “ Escape from Saudi ”
COVERAGE OF A MAJOR NEWS EVENT OR ISSUE
Award Partner Facebook
● Melissa Davey and Guardian Australia Team , Guardian Australia , “ Coverage of George
Pell verdict ”
● Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon , Herald Sun , “ Lawyer X Informer Scandal ”
● Adam Harvey, Tom Hancock and Suzanne Dredge , 7.30 and 7pm News , ABC TV , “Fall
of the Caliphate”
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Award Partner Nikon
● Chris McGrath, Getty Images, “The Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi”
● Matt Roberts, ABC, “The Second Coming of Senator Lambie”
● Jason South, The Age, “Pell”
BUSINESS JOURNALISM
Award Partner ING
● Adele Ferguson , The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age , “ Secret interviews reveal risky
business for NAB's top executives ”
● Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray and Jonathan Shapiro , The Australian Financial Review,
“The UBS loan scandal ”
● Nick McKenzie, Nick Toscano and Grace Tobin , The Age , The Sydney Morning Herald
and 60 Minutes , Nine, “ Crown Unmasked ”
FEATURE/PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY
Award Partner Nikon
● Chris McGrath, Getty Images, “The End of the Caliphate”
● Ryan Pierse, Getty Images, “The Unlosable Election”
● Jason South, The Age, “Christchurch Massacre”
TELEVISION/VIDEO: CAMERAWORK
Award Partner Australian Super
● Louie Eroglu , Four Corners , ABC, “ Proud Country ”
● Tom Hancock , 7pm News and 7.30 , ABC, “ On the frontline: the final days of Islamic
State's 'caliphate' ”
● Paul Walker , Seven News, Seven Network, “Sydney Stabbing”
TELEVISION/VIDEO: NEWS REPORTING
Award Partner Seven
● Seven News Brisbane Team , Seven News Brisbane , “North Queensland Flood Coverage”
● Seven News Sydney Team , Seven News Sydney , “Sydney Stabbing Rampage”
● Hannah Sinclair , Nine News, “Christchurch gunman's family breaks silence”
TELEVISION/VIDEO CURRENT AFFAIRS SHORT (LESS THAN 20 MINUTES)
Award Partner SBS
● Paul Farrell and Alex McDonald , 7.30 , ABC, “ Robodebt revelations ”
● Ali Rae , Al Jazeera English “ All Hail The Algorithm ”
● Emily Verdouw , BuzzFeed , “ Here's What Refugee Kids Suffering From A Rare Syndrome
In Sweden Can Tell Us About Australia's Offshore Detention Centres ”
TELEVISION/VIDEO CURRENT AFFAIRS LONG (MORE THAN 20 MINUTES)
Award Partner TEN
● Anne Connolly, Mary Fallon and Patricia Drum , Four Corners , ABC TV, “ Who Cares? ”
● Suzanne Dredge, Dylan Welch, David Maguire and Janine Cohen , Four Corners , ABC
TV, “ Orphans of ISIS ”
● Nick McKenzie, Grace Tobin and Nick Toscano , 60 Minutes , Nine, “ Crown Unmasked ”
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Award Partner Bayer
● Al Jazeera Investigations Unit , Al Jazeera Media Network, “ How to Sell a Massacre ”
● Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon , Herald Sun , “ Lawyer X Informer Scandal ”
● Angus Grigg, Lisa Murray, Jonathan Shapiro and Edmund Tadros , The Australian
Financial Review , “ The Paladin Affair — cashing in on refugees ”
COMMENTARY, ANALYSIS, OPINION AND CRITIQUE
Award Partner Bond University
● Waleed Aly , The Age , The Sydney Morning Herald and The Project , Network Ten, “ Rage
and Restraint ”
● Paul Daley , The Guardian , “ Interrogating the Past ”
● Jan Fran , The Feed , SBSVICELAND and associated social media channels, “ The Frant ”
WALKLEY DOCUMENTARY AWARD SHORTLIST
● Aftermath: Beyond Black Saturday , Joe Connor, Ken Connor and Lucy Maclaren,
Renegade Films and ABC
● The Australian Dream , Stan Grant, Dan Gordon, GoodThing Productions and Passion
Pictures UK
● The Final Quarter , Ian Darling, Sally Fryer and Mary Macrae, Shark Island Productions
WALKLEY BOOK AWARD LONGLIST
● Gabrielle Chan, Rusted Off , Vintage, Penguin Random House Australia
● Adele Ferguson, Banking Bad , ABC Books, HarperCollins Publishers Australia
● Ean Higgins, The Hunt for MH370 , Pan Macmillan Australia
● Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do , Black Inc.
● Damon Kitney, The Price of Fortune , HarperCollins Publishers Australia
● Patrick Mullins, Tiberius with a Telephone , Scribe
● Andrew Rule, Winx: The Authorised Biography , Allen & Unwin
● Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day , Penguin Random House Australia
● Matthew Warren, Blackout , Affirm Press
NIKON-WALKLEY PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Award Partner Nikon
● Scott Barbour, Getty Images and AAP
● Chris McGrath, Getty Images
● Jeremy Piper, National Geographic , Oculi and AAP
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