The ABC has 26 finalists across 15 categories in the 2022 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, which were announced today.
The ABC has all of the finalists in two categories, for Coverage of Community and Regional Affairs and Radio/Audio News and Current Affairs.
In seven others it has two of the three finalists : Public Service Journalism, Innovation, Coverage of Indigenous Affairs, Sports Journalism, TV/Video Camerawork and Short and Long TV/Video Current Affairs.
Our other finalists are in the categories of Investigative Journalism, Press Photographer of the Year, Production, Radio/Audio Feature and TV/Video News Reporting and in the Walkley Documentary Award.
Anne Connolly, Stephanie Zillman and Ali Russell are in the running for two awards for the Four Corners story "State Control". Last week they were jointly named Queensland Journalist of the Year for the reporting. The year-long investigation into Public Guardian and Trustee agencies, which currently control the lives of around 50,000 Australians, led to a public apology from the Queensland State Government and has triggered two inquiries.
The Walkley Awards will be held on 17 November in Sydney.
Full list of ABC finalists
PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM
- Anne Connolly, Stephanie Zillman and Ali Russell, ABC Four Corners, "State Control"
- Katri Uibu, ABC News, "Bad parent: Life at the hands of Australia's child protection system"
INNOVATION
- Matt Liddy, ABC News, "The Australian election map has been lying to you"
- Mark Doman and Michael Slezak, ABC, "Using 3D techniques to tell immersive stories" (1, 2, 3)
COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
- Charlotte King and Carly Williams, ABC, Background Briefing, "The Fight for Control Over Black Births"
- Louise Milligan, Naomi Selvaratnam and Lauren Day, ABC TV, Four Corners, "Heart Failure"
COVERAGE OF COMMUNITY & REGIONAL AFFAIRS
- Sam Carmody, Anthony Pancia, Wayne Webb and Zac Webb, ABC, Background Briefing, ABC South West and Undalup Association, "The Ghosts Are Not Silent"
- Samantha Jonscher and Alex Barwick, ABC Alice Springs, "Gendered violence in Central Australia"
- Joanne Shoebridge, Julie Ray, Renata Gombac and Justine Frazier, ABC North Coast, "Northern Rivers flood catastrophe"
SPORTS JOURNALISM
- Lorna Knowles, Nikki Tugwell and Clare Blumer, ABC, "Painful Past: the John Wright series"
- Jeremy Story Carter, ABC National Regional Reporting Team, "Death of a footy club"
RADIO/AUDIO NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
- Andrew Probyn and Matthew Doran, ABC, "The Macron-Morrison Spat"
- Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, ABC, "Ukraine war crimes"
- David Sparkes, ABC, "Northern NSW floods"
RADIO/AUDIO FEATURE
- Alex Mann, Rachael Brown, Mahmood Fazal and the Background Briefing team, ABC Background Briefing, "What happened to the Saudi sisters?
PRODUCTION
- Mark Willacy, Stephanie March, Josh Roberston and Kyle Taylor, ABC Four Corners, "Ghosts of Timor"
TELEVISION/VIDEO: CAMERAWORK
- Matthew Davis, ABC Foreign Correspondent, "Myanmar's Forgotten War" and "Keep Hawaii Hawaiian"
- Ryan Sheridan, ABC Four Corners, "Despair and Defiance" and "Feral"
TELEVISION/VIDEO NEWS REPORTING
- Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Phil Hemingway, ABC, "Ukraine war coverage"
TELEVISION/VIDEO CURRENT AFFAIRS SHORT (LESS THAN 20 MINUTES)
- Lorna Knowles and Nikki Tugwell, ABC, 7.30, "Painful Past: the John Wright series" [1, 2, 3]
- Josh Robertson, Mark Willacy, Kyle Taylor and Echo Hiu, ABC, 7.30, "Fallen Star"
TELEVISION/VIDEO CURRENT AFFAIRS LONG (MORE THAN 20 MINUTES)
- Anne Connolly, Stephanie Zillman and Ali Russell, ABC, Four Corners, "State Control"
- Belinda Hawkins, Kristine Taylor and Roger Carter, ABC, Australian Story, "No Place Like Home"
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
- Adele Ferguson, Joel Tozer, Klaus Toft and Lauren Day, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, 60 Minutes, and Four Corners, "Cosmetic Surgery in Crisis"
WALKLEY DOCUMENTARY AWARD SHORTLIST
- Ben Lawrence and Gabriel Shipton, Ithaka, Shipton House and ABC
NIKON-WALKLEY PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
- Brendan Esposito, ABC
