Congratulations to the ABC’s finalists at the 2021 Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
The ABC has 19 nominations across 14 categories.
The winners will be announced on Friday 18 March.
Full list of ABC finalists:
COVERAGE OF WOMEN IN SPORT
- Rhiannon Stevens, ABC Online, ‘The Strongest Woman in the World’
EXCELLENCE IN INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS REPORTING
- Andy Burns and Shahni Wellington, ABC 7.30 and ABC News ‘Footage of police arrests leaves Indigenous Australians feeling unsafe in their own community’
GRANT HATHAM QUILL FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
- Ben Butler, Elise Worthington and Neil Chenoweth, Guardian Australia, ABC, and AFR ‘Pandora Papers’
- Sarah Curnow and Josie Taylor; ABC News, ‘Data Breach’
INNOVATION IN JOURNALISM
- Michael Slezak, Mark Doman and Katie Shatoba, ABC News, ‘Lawless Loggers’
- Bang Xiao, ABC News, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’
PODCASTING
- Mahmood Fazal, ABC Radio National, ‘The infiltrator who helped hatch a terror plot’
RADIO CURRENT AFFAIRS
- Norman Herman, ABC AM, ‘Hidden Homeless’
- Charlotte King, ABC Background Briefing and AM, ‘The memo that erased a scandal’
RADIO NEWS
- Nicole Asher, ABC Radio Melbourne Drive, ‘Violence on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance’
- Bridget Rollason, 774 ABC Radio Melbourne, ‘Victoria’s construction industry shutdown for two weeks’
- Richard Willingham, ABC News, ‘Purpose built quarantine hub to be built in Mickleham’
REGIONAL AND RURAL JOURNALISM
- Emma Field, Andy Burns and Charlotte King, ABC Gippsland, Countryhour and News, ‘Petfood investigation reveals dodgy racehorse burials’
REPORTING ON DISABILITY ISSUES
- Jessica Longbottom, ABC News, ‘The Australian-born children the government wants to deport because they have a disability’
REPORTING ON MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
- Bang Xiao, Jarrod Fankhauser, Steven Viney, ABC News ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’
SPORTS FEATURE
- Russell Jackson, ABC News, ‘Rod Owen’s Secret’
TV/VIDEO FEATURE
- Adele Ferguson, Klaus Toft, Lauren Day, ABC Four Corners, ‘Cosmetic Cowboys’
TV/VIDEO NEWS
- Michael Slezak and Laura Kewley, ABC 7.30, ‘”Lawless” loggers’
YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
- Shannon Schubert, ABC News, ‘Shining a light on regional issues and the failures at Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre’
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