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Walkley Awards: 2020 mid-year journalism: winners

SBS, ABC and NITV journalists were awarded in a virtual mid-year celebration.

Marty Smiley

SBS, ABC  and NITV journalists were awarded in the The Walkley Foundation’s 2020 Mid-Year Celebration of Journalism in a virtual event.

Ella Archibald-Binge and Marty Smiley both from The Feed,  Karishma Vyas from Foreign Correspondent were honoured along with Joanna Lester, Madeleine Hetherton and Rebecca Barry from NITV.

Annabel Hennessy from The West Australian was named Young Australian Journalist of the Year.

Chief Executive Louisa Graham said, “Our Mid-Year Celebration was established to recognise the work of young journalists and specialist writers not included in the Walkley Awards. They are not Walkley Awards, they have a different trophy, but they are determined through the same rigorous processes and according to the same standards of excellence and expert judging. To avoid duplication with the Walkley Awards at the end of year, we have taken this opportunity to honour one of our significant benefactors by rebranding these awards in her name.

“June Andrews was the sister-in-law of our founder, Sir William Gaston Walkley, and now her legacy will be commemorated by honouring excellence in the craft. In this program, we also announce several awards we managed on behalf of other organisations, specifically Our Watch, Media Diversity Australia and the Geraldine Pascall Foundation.”

TV and related categories (winners in bold):

All media: Longform feature or special
Ella Archibald-Binge, The Feed, SBS Viceland, “Australia’s stolen wages shame”
Avani Dias, Hack, triple j, ABC, “The colleague, the girl, the police: Student framed and imprisoned over terror offences tells whole story for the first time”
Amber Schultz, Crikey Inq, “Celibacy and obedience: life inside a seminary”

All media: Visual storytelling
Dion Georgopoulos, The Canberra Times, “Australian Bushfire Coverage”
Tom Joyner, 7.30, ABC, “Australia’s summer of fires”
Marty Smiley, SBS TV On Demand and Online, “Christian Democratic Party”

All media: Public service journalism
Annabel Hennessy, The West Australian, “Kill or Be Killed?: The incarceration of Jody Gore”
Luke Henriques-Gomes, Guardian Australia, “Reporting on Australia’s welfare system”
Marty Smiley, SBS TV On Demand and Online, “Service to migrant community”

All media: ​Student journalist of the year
Nibir Khan, University of Queensland and ABC, “Rohingya refugee families torn apart as loved ones trapped on opposite sides of the world
Andre Nassiri, University of New South Wales and newsworthy.org.au, “The dark side of Africa’s ‘poster child’” and “Who wins when Rwanda plays the ‘genocide guilt card’”
Andrea Thiis-Evensen, Monash University, Mojo News and ABC News, “‘It was the worst day of our lives’: Bereaved parents say we must talk about youth suicide,” “Melbourne women claim they are being targeted by fake rideshare drivers” and “Monash student reaching for the stars to save the planet”

June Andrews Award for Freelance Journalist of the Year
Johanna Bell, StoryProjects, “Birds Eye View”
Nina Funnell, News.com.au, The Mercury and NT News, “Let Her Speak”
Karishma Vyas, 101 East – Al Jazeera English and Foreign Correspondent, ABC “The War on Afghan Women,” “Afghanistan: The Healers” and “Behind Enemy Lines”

June Andrews Award for Women’s Leadership in Media
Belinda Hawkins and Angela Leonardi, Australian Story, ABC, “An Innocent Abroad”
Joanna Lester, Madeleine Hetherton and Rebecca Barry, Media Stockade, NITV and SBS On Demand, “Power Meri”
Inga Ting and the Digital Story Innovations team, ABC News, “Rough justice: How police are failing survivors of sexual assault”

Media Diversity Australia Award
Johanna Bell and The Birds Eye View Team, StoryProjects, “BIRDS EYE VIEW”
Mahmood Fazal and Rebecca Metcalf, Audible Originals, “No Gangsters in Paradise”
Corrin Grant and Michael Hing, SBS, “Where Are You Really From?”

Arts Journalism Prizes

All media: June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism
Hagar Cohen and the Background Briefing Team, Background Briefing, ABC, “Under the Hammer”
Steve Dow, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and Guardian Australia “Stream Drama,” “Acts of Faith” and “A Buŋgul, a Procession, An Overnight Vigil”
Rosemary Neill, The Australian, “Brought to book: universities’ new cultural cringe”

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