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Call for Entries: Caroline Jones Women in Media Young Journalists Award

The winner of this young journalism award will spend time in the Canberra Press Gallery.

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Applications are now open for the Caroline Jones Women in Media Young Journalists Award, recognising young women working in journalism across rural and regional Australia

The award seeks to immerse the award winner in an intensive experience of journalism, politics and government in Canberra. The winner will spend time in a variety of Canberra and Press Gallery news rooms.

The annual award includes:

$2500 personal learning fund
Travel and accommodation to Canberra for five nights
National Press Club lunch attendance and question
Mentorship from members of the Canberra Women in Media Committee.

Meanwhile Bindi Bryce was recently named as the first recipient of the ABC’s Caroline Jones Scholarship, for a talented young Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander journalist, working with various ABC news and current affairs teams.

This award seeks to foster commitment and passion for journalism among young women practitioners in rural and regional Australia. It is named in honour of Caroline Jones, AO, a ground-breaking journalist who joined the ABC in 1963 and became the first female reporter for This Day Tonight. She reported for Four Corners between 1972-1981 before presenting Radio National’s Search for Meaning program. In 1996 Jones became the presenter of Australian Story. She is the Patron of Women in Media, a networking initiative for Australian women in media modelled on a successful group first established in Western Australia in 2005.

This award is the first of its kind in encouraging young female rural and regional journalists to experience first-hand the complexities of the media and political landscape across the nation’s capital.

It is a life-changing, horizon-broadening and immersive prize, exposing the winner not only to the institutions of Canberra, including the Press Gallery and National Press Club, but also bringing them into contact with the Women in Media network – providing mentorship, guidance, and insights from Canberra’s most prominent female journalists.

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  1. I know this is controversial but how come you can celebrate a Women in Media Young Journalists Award but if there was a Men in Media Young Journalists Award it would be called sexist? Where is the support for young men to work in newsrooms because on tv it certainly seems to be that women are in the majority.

    1. I’ve never quite understood why some people get so concerned about things that’ll never affect them. Let alone why they fear them so much that they invent situations that still don’t really affect them, but ‘justify’ their irrational fears.

      Take things like women-only awards. Men aren’t affected, nobody’s hurt or losing out (in fact some people are gaining!) – but some have to imagine that everybody would cry ‘unfair!’ if the situation was reversed. And then they think that _their imaginary scenario itself_ is proof things are unfair?

      Just seems a bit … odd … to me. Better off worrying about things that (a) might actually affect you, and (b) are real…

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