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Dateline reporter wins Walkley

Dateline reporter Sophie McNeill has picked up the Television prize at the Walkley Young Australian Journalist Awards.

Dateline reporter Sophie McNeill has picked up the Television prize at the Walkley Young Australian Journalist awards for her piece on Afghanistan.

McNeill has been with Dateline since 2005, and has reported from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Thailand and Mexico.

In 2003, her investigation into the death of an asylum seeker who had been held under Australia’s mandatory detention policy won her the MEAA’s Student Journalist of the Year Award, Best Newcomer at the West Australian Media Awards and Best Emerging Director at the West Australian Screen Awards.

She was also a New York Film Festival finalist for her 2005 story Shoot the Messenger, which detailed the shooting of an unarmed, wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque by an American soldier.

In 2007, McNeill was nominated for a Walkley Award for her camerawork in her story from Lebanon, Sects in the City.

The Walkley Young Australian Journalist of Year went to Fairfax Radio’s Latika Bourke for her coverage of the Liberal leadership spill last year.

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