Top tips for photographers entering the Walkleys Photo editor and member of the Walkley Judging Board, Mags King, shares her advice for photographers. As a member of the Walkley Judging Board I, along with the other board members, select the…
WalkleyMagJuly 29, 2019
Walkley Awards entry fee halved to improve accessibility, diversity Walkley Judging Board chair Lenore Taylor launches the 64th Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism Hard to believe it’s this time of year again: we’re about to open entries for the…
WalkleyMagJune 26, 2019
The Australian “The Teacher’s Pet” Hedley Thomas wrote and recorded an average of more than 15,000 words each week as new informants came forward in what became a live, unfolding investigation into the disappearance of Sydney mother Lyn Dawson. A…
Helen JohnstoneNovember 29, 2018
Guardian Australia “Deaths Inside: Indigenous deaths in custody” The Guardian’s “Deaths Inside” database and stories compile painstakingly verified data into a publicly available tool. It will stand as a resource to be used by other reporters, lawyers and academics, but it…
Helen JohnstoneNovember 23, 2018
The Australian “From The Heart” The Uluru Statement arose from extensive nationwide dialogues with Indigenous groups on constitutional recognition, followed by a four-day First Nations National Constitutional Convention. The result was a call for the establishment of a First Nations…
Helen JohnstoneNovember 29, 2017
Fairfax Media’s Michael Bachelard and Kate Geraghty have won the Gold Walkley Award for their extraordinary work, “Surviving IS: Stories of Mosul”. The ancient city of Mosul’s devastation by Islamic State may feel unthinkably tragic and distant, but Michael Bachelard…
Helen JohnstoneNovember 29, 2017
SBS Australia, “My Grandmother’s Lingo” My grandmother’s lingo A young Aboriginal woman, Angelina Joshua from in the remote community of Ngukurr, tells her story of fighting to preserve her ancestral language, Marra. This online interactive documentary, produced in consultation with…
Helen JohnstoneNovember 29, 2016
Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year unveiled; finalists announced for 2016 Nikon-Walkley Awards for Excellence in Photojournalism and Walkley Documentary Award Andrew Quilty’s “The Man on The Operating Table” has been named the 2016 Nikon-Walkley Photo of the Year. The image…
Helen JohnstoneOctober 13, 2016
By Jacquelyn Hole, executive producer of the 2015 Walkleys With the 60th Walkleys coming up next week, we’re in a remembering mood. So we dug through the archives and found these great moments from the past decades. 1956 In the…
WalkleyMagNovember 25, 2015