Fifty-two news publishers and independent journalists will be awarded AU$5M in funding from the Meta Australian News Fund, in the latest round of a AUD$15M three-year investment in partnership with the Walkley Foundation. Now in its second year, the fund…

The law needs to keep up with the real world if journalism is to hold power to account, writes Walkley Foundation chair Adele Ferguson.

Walkley-winning journalist Helen Pitt shares the impact the Journalists Benevolent Fund has had in her life and beyond. Two days after my husband William died, the Journalists Benevolent Fund (JBF) of NSW got in touch to see if I needed…

On November 17 Karen Percy gave a speech at the 67th Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, in her capacity as the federal president of MEAA’s National Media Section. Karen is also deputy chair of the Walkley Foundation Board of…

Veteran Four Corners producer Sally Neighbour credits her luminescent 42-year journalistic career to tenacity, determination and resilience after receiving the 2022 Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Award at the 67th Walkley Awards gala dinner on November 17. Here is a transcript…

Anne Connolly, Stephanie Zillman and Ali Russell won the Walkley Award for Public Service Journalism for their Four Corners report "State Control", which lifted the lid on those affected by the repressive Public Guardian and Trustee system in Queensland. Their courageous…

22 November, 2022 A statement from the Walkley Foundation The Walkley Foundation has announced its decision to withdraw an award given to Peter Fegan and Rebeka Powell of Nine News 6pm in the 2021 Walkley Awards. The award, for a…

Anne Connolly, Ali Russell and Stephanie Zillman have won the Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour, for their investigation “State Control” on ABC Four Corners.  The judges said “This was enlightening and determined reporting, giving power to voiceless people and…

By Helen O’Neill News broke on Thursday June 28, 1956, that the Australian Journalists’ Association (AJA) had partnered with William Gaston Walkley, the Managing Director of Ampol Petroleum, to launch the country’s first national press awards. The inaugural Walkley Awards…