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.
Nick McKenzie led the cross-platform, collaborative team behind the 2024 Gold Walkley-winning investigation ‘Building Bad’. Nick spoke with the Walkley Foundation to share some of the stories behind the story.
‘I personally am broken, physically, mentally, and financially,’ whistleblower Richard Boyle said in an address at the 2024 Walkley Awards. The Walkley Foundation calls on the government to ensure whistleblowers are ‘safeguarded, rather than punished’.
The 69th Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism were presented in 30 categories, announced tonight in Sydney. The 'Building Bad' investigation has won the 2024 Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour, for reports broken by a team of journalists across…
Kate Geraghty has been named the winner of the 2024 Nikon Photo of the Year Prize for 'Funeral at Al-Aqsa', as the Walkley Foundation announces finalists for the 2024 Walkley Awards photographic categories.