Finalists for the Walkley Foundation’s 2025 Mid-Year Media Prizes have been announced today. Peer-judged and selected on the basis of journalistic excellence, the Prizes include the John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year Awards, Coverage of Science…
CAPTION ABOVE: All Journalists are Content Creators panel at the International Journalism Festival, Perugia, in April. Picture: Francesco Cuoccio #IJF25 Rob Layton was a speaker and workshop convenor at the International Journalism Festival, and MojoFest. He is also Assistant Professor…
In the final week before the inaugural Masters & McKenzie Investigative Journalism Fellowship closes applications on 12 May, we spoke to Pamela Williams, chair of the Walkley Public Fund Committee, about why this opportunity was created and what she hopes…
The Walkley Foundation has welcomed nine incoming members of the Walkley Judging Board: Christine Ahern, (Today, Nine, Victoria), Tom Dusevic (The Australian, NSW), Karla Grant (NITV & SBS, NSW), Richard Guilliatt (freelance journalist and author, NSW), Saffron Howden (National Affairs…
The Walkley Foundation is proud to announce a new fellowship for mid-career Australian investigative journalists to develop their investigative skills. The Masters & McKenzie Investigative Journalism Fellowship is named for multi-Walkley Award-winning investigative journalists Chris Masters and Nick McKenzie, who…
As we looked back on the first Gold Walkley-winner, Catherine Martin (1918-2009), we found this obituary penned by Helen Trinca for The Walkley Magazine in 2009 almost impossible to excerpt. So here it is, reproduced in full.
By James Gorman Australian photographer Nick Moir shares his concerns about Australia’s changing weather cycles and his insights about how to make it in the visual media industry after being named Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year at the 2024…