Despite a sustained political and economic assault by the Abbott Government and a anti-public broadcasting campaign by Rupert Murdoch's media, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had thirty finalists in the 2014 Walkley Awards.
Twelve ABC journalists won on the night in the thirty-four award categories – some coming first in more than one category.
ABC News 5 December 2014:
The ABC's Deb Masters and Mario Christodoulou and Fairfax Media's Adele Ferguson have jointly won Australian journalism's highest award, the Gold Walkley, for a Four Corners investigation of the Commonwealth Bank….
A joint ABC News and Guardian investigation which angered Prime Minister Tony Abbott and upset relations with Indonesia was named the Scoop of the Year.
Reporters Michael Brissenden, Ewan MacAskill and Lenore Taylor were presented the award for their story revealing that Australia's spy networks were targeting Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's personal mobile phone…..
Australian Story's Belinda Hawkins took out the category for Social Equity Journalism with her story on the search by donor-conceived children for their biological fathers.
Middle East correspondent Hayden Cooper was honoured for his coverage of the Peter Greste trial, winning the Walkley for Radio News and Current Affairs reporting.
Matt Brown, Hayden Cooper, Aaron Hollett, Stuart Watt, Michael Carey and the ABC news teams won Best Coverage of a Major News Event or Issue, with their reporting on the Gaza conflict.
Matt Brown and Mark Solomons won the Walkley for TV/AV Reporting for three exclusives about Australian jihadists in Syria.
Radio National's Sarah Dingle won the Radio/Audio Documentary award for her investigation into the Salvation Army's sex abuse cover-up.
ABC News and Foreign Correspondent cameraman Wayne McAllister was honoured for his work in Thailand, the South China Sea and Ukraine.
Four Corners, ABC TV and The Australian shared the Investigative Journalism award for their reports into the treatment of children caught up in conflict in the West Bank.
7.30's Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and Sam Clark won the TV/AV Daily Current Affairs award for their investigation of corruption, kickbacks, rackets and organised crime within the building industry and the CFMEU.
A joint ABC TV/Mint Pictures and Identity Films won the Documentary award for investigations into child abuse at a Orthodox Jewish boys' school in Melbourne.
3 comments:
The old Awards booze-up eh, sponsors get the main prizes and also self-indulgent lefties - I see the ABC, Fairfax and The Guardian figured prominently, as always, News, Sky etc didn't do so well?
Al-jazeera journo, Peter Greste, got one for being in jail, the treasonous SBY phone taps report qualified, someone who found out George Brandis didn't know what metadata was got one (I assume for identifying the man as a fool?), and of course the Muslim sector was delighted that Waleed Aly got one.
Big deal!
News Corp, Channel 7, Channel 9, Sky News, are all represented on the Walkley Foundation board &/or among the trustees.
It's sponsors are diverse and include companies such as Coles, BHP Billiton, JP Morgan, Linc Energy, Minter Ellison, Google, Lion, Australian Super.
Oh no, Anonymous above sonds like a very twisted 'my baa man'. Obviously a devotee of Rupert's gutter techniques. How sad!
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