SA Media Awards 2024: nominees

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has announced the finalists for the 2024 South Australian Media Awards.

There are TV nominations from ABC, SBS and Seven.

Winners will be named at an event on Saturday 6th July at Gallery Adelaide.

TV and related categories:

Television/Video – News
Peta Doherty (SBS) “This Adelaide housing development is being built on one of the state’s largest mass burial sites” (pictured)
Hannah Foord (Seven News) “Accused Killer Speaks”

Television/Video – Feature
To be announced at the event.

Visual Storytelling
William Bailey (The Murray Valley Standard) “Body of Work”
Che Chorley (ABC) “Body of Work”
Justina Ward, Sam McKenzie (ABC) “The Science of Bushfires”

Multimedia News or Feature
Shari Hams (ABC) “Influencers on notice as consumer watchdog sets sights on undisclosed ads on social media”
Evelyn Leckie (ABC) “Woman sues Google twice”
Nicholas Maher (ABC) “International Crises: Explained”

Best Rural/Regional Journalist
Eliza Berlage (ABC) “Wine oversupply crisis”
Eugene Boisvert (ABC) “South East SA work”
Sophie Landau (ABC) “Connection, care, compassion”

Commentary, Analysis, Opinion and Critique
Walter Marsh (Crikey!) “Rupert Murdoch: From rise to retirement”
Evelyn Leckie (ABC) “A drop in the ocean”
David Simmons (Solstice Media) “Banksy bungle”

Investigative Journalism
Leah MacLennan (ABC) “South Australian greyhounds captured on video apparently being kicked, punched”
Charlotte Varcoe (The Border Watch) “Mount Gambier Racetrack Troubles”
Riley Walter (The Advertiser) “Child protection failures”

Social Equity Report
Eugene Boisvert (ABC) “Maria Shipwreck Truth-telling”
Peta Doherty (SBS) “This Adelaide housing development is being built on one of the state’s largest mass burial sites”
Riley Walter (The Advertiser) “Flinders Ranges Sacred Site Destruction”

Sports Report
Cale Matthews (ABC) “Sport Burnout”
Michelle Wakim (ABC) “Menstruation and Sport”

The Max Fatchen Award for Best Young Journalist
Isabel McMillan (The Advertiser) “Body of Work”
Josh Brine (ABC) “Body of work”
Sophie Holder (ABC) “Body of work”

The 2024 Journalist Of The Year Award will be announced on the evening.