Tasmanian Media Awards 2024: nominees

Nominees have been announced in the Tasmanian Media Awards 2024.

Winners will be announced at a cocktail event on Friday, May 31, at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hobart.

TV and related categories:

Arts Reporting
Lucille Cutting (ABC) “Exploring Tasmania and Japan’s relationship through a 1990’s Japanese multi million dollar box office film Tasmania Story”
Selina Ross (ABC) “Body of Work”

Best New Journalist
Clancy Balen (ABC) “Body of Work”
Tilly Hannan (WIN News) “Northern Tasmanian Tales”
Rebecca Pridham (ABC) “Body of Work”

Best News Story
Jano Gibson (ABC) “Collision Course: The debacle impacting Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker”
Chris Rowbottom, Jessica Moran, Andy Burns, Charlotte King, Andy Burns (ABC) “Inside a Racing Juggernaut: How One Trainer Dominates the Nation’s Harness Industry
Amber Wilson (The Mercury) “The Tasmania Police Child Sexual Abuse Scandal”

Comment and Analysis
Bob Burton (Tasmanian Inquirer) “Deals and dollars”
Adam Morton (Guardian Australia) “Australia and the Climate Crisis”
Adam Langenberg (ABC) “Tasmanian Political Analysis”

Excellence in Legal Reporting
Adam Holmes (ABC) “Body of Work”
April McLennan (ABC) “Body of Work”
Amber Wilson (The Mercury) “The Tasmania Police Child Sexual Abuse Scandal”

Feature, Documentary or Current Affairs
Satria Dyer-Darmawan (The Examiner) “Toxic culture claims within George Town Fire Brigade”
Ben Walter (Freelance) The Only Fish
Piia Wirsu, Grant Walter, Blythe Moore, Liz Gwynn, Helen Shield (ABC) “Expanse: From the Dead”

Health Reporting
Fiona Blackwood (ABC) “Health Reporting”
Kim Napier (ABC) “Breaking the Silence”
Adam Langenberg (ABC) “Body of Work”

Public Service Journalism
Josh Duggan (7 Tasmania News) “A broken child safety system”
Jano Gibson (ABC) Collision course: The debacle impacting Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker”
Jessica Moran, Chris Rowbottom, Andy Burns, Charlotte King (ABC) “Stacking the Odds: Inside a Tasmanian harness racing juggernaut”

Science Technology and Environment
Bob Burton (Tasmanian Inquirer) “Fishy Business”
Jano Gibson (ABC) Collision course: The debacle impacting Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker”
Adam Morton (Guardian Australia) “A year in the climate crisis”

Sports Coverage
Brent Costelloe (WIN Television) “AFL Exclusives” (pictured)
Jessica Moran, Chris Rowbottom, Andy Burns, Charlotte King (ABC) “Stacking the Odds: Inside a Tasmanian harness racing juggernaut”
Chris Rowbottom (ABC) “Body of Work”

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