April McLennan was named the 2025 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year, as the Walkley Foundation honoured all the winners in the 2025 Mid-Year Media Prizes in Sydney this evening.
WalkleyMagJune 19, 2025
Winners announced for Walkley Foundation’s 2025 Mid-Year Media Prizes
April McLennan was named the 2025 John B Fairfax Family Young Australian Journalist of the Year, as the Walkley Foundation…
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Seven Australian journalists have been selected to take part in the inaugural Masters & McKenzie Investigative Journalism Fellowship.
WalkleyMagJune 12, 2025
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…
WalkleyMagMay 22, 2025
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…
WalkleyMagMay 15, 2025
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…
WalkleyMagMay 5, 2025
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…
WalkleyMagApril 24, 2025
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…
WalkleyMagApril 17, 2025
Eleven new Australian journalism projects will share in just over $180,000 of funding support, thanks to the new Walkley Solutions Journalism Fund.
WalkleyMagMarch 6, 2025
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.
WalkleyMagMarch 5, 2025
Looking for your next essential summer read? Look no further than the nine books longlisted for the 2024 Walkley Book Award.
WalkleyMagDecember 12, 2024