Walkley News

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…

Eleven new Australian journalism projects will share in just over $180,000 of funding support, thanks to the new Walkley Solutions Journalism Fund.

Looking for your next essential summer read? Look no further than the nine books longlisted for the 2024 Walkley Book Award.

‘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’.

Three Australian non-fiction books have been shortlisted for the 2024 Walkley Book Award. 

The Walkley Foundation said today that it is misleading and inaccurate to suggest that the Foundation itself funded Cosmos Magazine for a project that utilised AI and machine learning to assist in repurposing some of their existing science stories into…

Young journalist Nyibol Gatluak on her experience in the AAP newsroom as an inaugural winner of the Walkley Opportunity Scholarship.

James Gorman reports back on the 2024 Australia-Korea Media Exchange. Six Australian journalists returned to Australia last week after an 11-day exchange program across the Republic of Korea (ROK).  The program, supported by the Australia-Korea Foundation (AKF), the Korea Press…