Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism
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The Walkley Award
for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism recognises long-term commitment and achievement in the Australian media. It has been awarded annually since 1994.
The List of winners:
Walkley Awards
The annual Walkley Awards, under the administration of the Walkley Foundation for Journalism, are presented in Australia to recognise and reward excellence in journalism. Finalists are chosen by an independent board of eminent journalists and photographers. The awards cover all media including...
for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism recognises long-term commitment and achievement in the Australian media. It has been awarded annually since 1994.
The List of winners:
- 1994: Robert M. DuffieldRobert DuffieldRobert Duffield is an Australian writer, best known as the author of Rogue Bull, a 1979 biography of Lang Hancock. In addition to writing, Duffield was also a University lecturer and journalist, serving as foreign editor and a columnist for The Australian from 1968 until 1974.-References:...
- 1995: John Stubbs
- 1996: Max FatchenMax FatchenMax Fatchen is an Australian journalist and children's writer.Max Fatchen spent his boyhood on an Adelaide Plains farm at Angle Vale. He learned to drive a team of Clydesdale horses and did part of his High School studies at home, driving his horse and buggy in once a week to Gawler High School to...
- 1997: Paul Chadwick
- 1998: Maurie Ferry, ABC South East RadioAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...
, BegaBega, New South WalesBega is a town in the south-east of New South Wales, Australia in the Bega Valley Shire. It is the economic centre for the Bega Valley.-Place name:One claim is that place name Bega is derived from the local Aboriginal word meaning "big camping ground".... - 1999: Tony Koch
- 2000: Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Australian journalist)Paul Murphy is a renowned Australian political journalist. He is the brother of Australian journalist Justin Murphy.Murphy began his TV career as a reporter for the pioneering Australian nightly ABC-TV current affairs program This Day Tonight, which premiered in 1967 and he worked as a senior...
- 2001: Estelle BlackburnEstelle BlackburnEstelle Blackburn is a journalist who has played a crucial role in the review of some controversial criminal cases in Western Australia.-Early life:...
- 2002: Quentin DempsterQuentin DempsterQuentin Dempster is an Australian journalist and author.He has worked in the industry for 30 years and has been employed by the ABC for 20.His most important contribution was his exposé of police corruption in Queensland....
, The 7.30 ReportThe 7.30 ReportThe 7.30 Report is an Australian nightly television current affairs program, that was shown on ABC1 and ABC News 24 at , Mondays–Thursdays...
, ABC TVAustralian Broadcasting CorporationThe Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster... - 2003: Julie DuncanJulie DuncanJulie Duncan was a motion picture actress specialising in short subjects and Westerns. She was a champion steeplechase rider.-External links:...
, Journalism Educator, South AustraliaSouth AustraliaSouth Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland... - 2004: Phil Wilkins
- 2005: Australian Cartoonist's AssociationAustralian Cartoonist's AssociationThe Australian Cartoonists' Association is the Australian professional cartoonists' organisation and was established on 17 July 1924 as the Society of Australian Black and White Artists....
- 2006: Colleen EganColleen EganColleen Egan is a Western Australian journalist and author who played a role in obtaining the acquittal of Andrew Mallard, a Western Australian man who had been wrongfully convicted of murder....
, The Sunday TimesThe Sunday Times (Western Australia)The Sunday Times, owned by News Limited, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia.-History:... - 2007: Gerard Noonan
- 2008: Pamela Bone
- 2009: Tony Stephens
- 2010: Cameron Forbes
- 2011: Julian AssangeJulian AssangeJulian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, writer, computer programmer and Internet activist. He is the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks with the stated purpose of creating open governments.WikiLeaks has published material...
, WikiLeaksWikileaksWikiLeaks is an international self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more...
External links
- Walkley Awards website Home Page
- Page for search of Walkleys database for winners' names.