Ukraine team leads Walkley Awards nominations
A large number of journalists and photographers from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age have been announced as finalists in the 67th Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism.
Distinguished photographer Kate Geraghty is shortlisted in three categories for her coverage of the war in Ukraine while her colleague, Anthony Galloway, is shortlisted for coverage of a major issue and production. The pair sit among other award-winning journalists Nick McKenzie, Adele Ferguson, Kate McClymont, Jacqueline Maley and Sarah Danckert who have been nominated across a number of categories for news breaking and investigative journalism over the past year.
Anthony Galloway and Kate Geraghty.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen and James Brickwood
The Walkley Foundation said 1304 entries were received this year. Walkley Award winners will be announced at a gala dinner at the ICC on November 17 in Sydney.
Political editor Peter Hartcher is nominated in the feature writing short category for his piece Radioactive: Inside the top-secret AUKUS subs deal, while former Europe correspondent and editor of The Herald, Bevan Shields, is a finalist in the scoop of the year coverage for his piece ‘I don’t think, I know’ where French president Emmanuel Macron accused former prime minister Scott Morrison of lying to him. The Herald’s photographer Brook Mitchell is a finalist for Nikon press photographer of the year, alongside The Age’s Christopher Hopkins.
Geraghty is a finalist in three categories for her photographic work in Ukraine: photographic essay, production, and coverage of a major issue. Galloway is nominated in coverage of a major issue and production, while Mark Stehle is a finalist in the latter category.
McKenzie is nominated in three categories. He is a finalist in print/text news report with Aisha Dow, and Joel Tozer for work, Triple Zero Crisis, which ran in The Age. His colleague Melissa Cunningham is nominated in the same category for her work The Melbourne ICU where the unvaccinated die in disbelief.
McKenzie is also a finalist in the business category with Tozer and Amelia Ballinger for the 60 Minutes program Star and the gambling industry’s reckoning. The trio are also finalists in the investigative journalism category for The downfall of the gaming industry alongside Adele Ferguson, Klaus Toft and Lauren Day for Cosmetic Surgery in Crisis. She is also shortlisted in the television/video current affairs category.
McClymont is nominated alongside Tom Steinfort, Michael Evans, Dave McMillan and Tracey Hannaford for the podcast series Liar Liar, which discussed the disappearance of fraudster Melissa Caddick.
Danckert joins McKenzie, Tozer and Ballinger in the business journalism category for her work on Stake.com, while Maley is a finalist in the commentary category.
Craig Butt and The Concussion Project team are finalists in the sports journalism category for their series Concussion in sport. Heath Gilmore, Catherine Naylor, Lucy Cormack and Mark Stehle are nominated in the coverage of a major issue, for Hell on High Water, which examined the Lismore floods.
The Secret, a book by the Herald’s state political editor Alexandra Smith charting the Berejiklian premiership, has made the long list.
The Herald and The Age’s executive editor, Tory Maguire, said: “This wonderful list of Walkley nominations once again demonstrates these mastheads are the home of a lot of the best journalism Australia has to offer. The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are continuing to invest in intensive, difficult and vital reporting, we are growing our newsrooms and we are continuing to find new ways to tell stories.
“I’m very proud of all our nominees, and the people across the mastheads who helped get their journalism published.”
A full list of finalists can be found here.
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