2007 Walkley Award Winners

GOLD WALKLEY

Hedley Thomas, The Australian, "Dr Haneef"

JOURNALISTIC LEADERSHIP

Eric Beecher

MOST OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO JOURNALISM

Gerard Noonan

NIKON WALKLEY PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

Kate Geraghty, The Sydney Morning Herald, "John Elliott"

NON-FICTION BOOK

Chris Masters, Jonestown, Allen & Unwin

PRINT

THREE HEADINGS

Hall Greenland, The Bulletin, "Naturals"

MAGAZINE FEATURE WRITING

Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, "Cruising"

NEWSPAPER FEATURE WRITING

James Button, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, "A Death in Zurich"

ARTWORK

CARTOON

Cathy Wilcox, The Sydney Morning Herald, "Uncovered Meat"

ARTWORK

Sturt Krygsman, The Australian, "The Shaky Sheik"

Photography

NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY

Eddie Safarik, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, "Haneef Leaves the Watchhouse"

DAILY LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY

Lisa Wiltse, The Sydney Morning Herald, "Little Voice Dhaka, Bangladesh"

SPORT PHOTOGRAPHY

Craig Golding, The Sydney Morning Herald, "This Sporting Light"

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY

Kate Geraghty, The Sydney Morning Herald, "John Elliott"

RADIO

RADIO NEWS REPORTING

Rafael Epstein, ABC Radio, "Mohamed Haneef"

RADIO CURRENT AFFAIRS REPORTING

Anne Barker, AM, PM and The World Today, ABC Radio, "NT Intervention"

RADIO FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY OR BROADCAST SPECIAL

Eurydice Aroney and Sharon Davis, ABC Radio National, "The Search for Edna Lavilla"

ALL MEDIA

TELEVISION NEWS REPORTING

Brian Thomson, World News Australia, SBS TV, "Timor in Transition"

TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS REPORTING (LESS THAN 20 MINUTES)

Frank McGuire and Adam Shand, Sunday, Nine Network, "Force Within a Force"

TELEVISION NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS CAMERA

Andrew Taylor, Four Corners, ABC TV, "Forward Base Afghanistan"

TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS, FEATURE, DOCUMENTARY OR SPECIAL (MORE THAN 20 MINUTES)

Matthew Brown and Wayne Harley, Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, "West Bank, Love and Betrayal"

ALL MEDIA

BEST USE OF THE MEDIUM

ABC Radio Newcastle Team, ABC Radio Newcastle and www.abc.net.au, "Emergency Broadcast June 2007"

COVERAGE OF SUBURBAN OR REGIONAL AFFAIRS

Greg McFarland, Central Western Daily, "Cadia Wants Our Water"

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM

Ginny Stein, Dateline, SBS TV, "Burma – Inside the Secret City"

COVERAGE OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

Rowan Callick, The Australian, "Brave New China: Torn Between its Present and its Past"

BUSINESS JOURNALISM

Anthony Klan, The Australian, "Fincorp Collapse"

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

Ginny Stein, Dateline, SBS TV, "Rwanda – Questions of Murder

COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS

Tony Koch, The Australian, "Bloody Disgrace: Saga is State’s Worst Injustice"

SPORTS FEATURE COVERAGE

Wendy Page, Australian Story, ABC TV, "Man of the Century"

SPORT NEWS REPORTING

Craig Hutchison, The Footy Show and Footy Classified, Nine Network, "Drugs in Football"

SOCIAL EQUITY JOURNALISM

Frank Moorhouse, Griffith Review, "The Writer in a Time of Terror"

COMMENTARY, ANALYSIS, OPINION AND CRITIQUE

Tony Walker, The Australian Financial Review, "Interesting Times"

BROADCAST INTERVIEWING

Tony Jones, Lateline, ABC TV, "Tony Jones Interviews"