The 2020 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism will be announced tonight.
Congratulations and good luck to all the finalists!
Check out the full list of ABC finalists and their nominated work:
PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM
- FINALIST Elise Worthington, Lesley Robinson and John Stewart (Four Corners) “Please Don’t Judge“
INNOVATION
- FINALIST Dylan Welch, Alexander Palmer, Clare Blumer and Suzanne Dredge “Anatomy of a suicide bombing“
FEATURE WRITING LONG (OVER 4000 WORDS)
- FINALIST Annabel Crabb (Quarterly Essay) “Men at Work: Australia’s Parenthood Trap“
- FINALIST Russell Jackson “The Persecution of Robert Muir“
COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
- FINALIST Stan Grant and the Four Corners Team (Four Corners) “I Can’t Breathe”
COVERAGE OF COMMUNITY OR REGIONAL AFFAIRS
- FINALIST Charlotte King, Andy Burns and the Background Briefing Team (Background Briefing) “Regional stillbirths: No one told these country mums why their babies died“
SPORTS JOURNALISM
- FINALIST Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Amy Donaldson, Fred Shaw and Justin Stevens (7.30) “The Final Race“
RADIO/AUDIO NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
- FINALIST Avani Dias (triple j Hack) “The colleague, the girl, the police: Student framed and imprisoned over terror offences tells whole story for the first time“
- FINALIST Dr Norman Swan, Tegan Taylor and Will Ockenden “Coronacast“
- FINALIST Mark Willacy, Alexandra Blucher and Rory Callinan (AM) “The Village Idiot Killing“
RADIO/AUDIO FEATURE
- FINALIST Rachael Brown, Josie Taylor, Tim Roxburgh, Marty Peralta and the Trace team “Trace: The Informer“
PRODUCTION
- FINALIST Casey Briggs, Andrew George, Ryan Kerlin and Peter Matejcek “The Curve: COVID-19 data journalism“
- FINALIST Four Corners team “Black Summer“
COVERAGE OF A MAJOR NEWS EVENT OR ISSUE
- FINALIST ABC News and Regional & Local teams “
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