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Walkley Awards 2014: winners

ABC dominates TV winners at the Walkleys, plus a win for SKY News' David Speers.

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2014-12-04_2352ABC TV has again dominated the television related categories in the 59th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism held at the Dockside, Darling Harbour, last night.

The Gold Walkley went jointly to Adele Ferguson, Deb Masters and Mario Christodoulou, from Four Corners, ABC TV and Fairfax Media for their story uncovering unconscionable banking practices among some of our biggest banks, notably the Commonwealth Bank.

ABC journalists on ABC News, 7:30 and Four Corners were also recognised.

SKY News’ David Speers won the Interview award, while Waleed Aly won the Commentary prize for a piece in Fairfax.

The Walkleys fittingly recognised Peter Greste with a Contribution to Journalism award.

A one-hour highlights will on ABC Sunday, December 7 at 1pm.

TV and related categories: (winners in bold)

TV/AV WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS
Adele Ferguson, Deb Masters and Mario Christodoulou, Four Corners, ABC TV and Fairfax Media, “Banking bad” (GOLD)
Caro Meldrum-Hanna, Deb Masters and Connie Agius, Four Corners, ABC TV, “The Boy with the Henna Tattoo”
Michael Usher, Grace Tobin and Stephen Rice, 60 Minutes, Nine Network, “Murder at Murphy’s Creek”

ALL MEDIA: CAMERAWORK
Miles Bence, The Feed, SBS2, “The Last Man in Acland”, “Caught Inside”, “The Bee Keeper’s Son”
Ben Fogarty, 60 Minutes, Nine Network, “Father’s Day massacre”
Wayne McAllister, ABC News and Foreign Correspondent, ABC TV, “Loksi violent protest”, “Spratley Islands: reef madness”

TV/AV NEWS REPORTING
Matthew Brown and Mark Solomons, ABC News, “Syria death”, “Jihad middleman”, “Bomber video”
Samantha Hawley, ABC News, ABC TV, “Baby Gammy”
Daniel Oakes and Sam Clark, ABC News, ABC TV, “Children in care”

TV/AV DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS
Caitlyn Gribbin, 7:30, ABC TV, “Who is Doctor Nitschke advising?”
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker and Sam Clark, 7:30, ABC TV, “State of the union”, “Jobs for the boys”
George Roberts, Mark Solomons, Lesley Robinson, Pru Kingsmill and Sally Neighbour, 7:30, ABC TV, “Operation Sovereign Borders”

ALL MEDIA: INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Adele Ferguson, Deb Masters and Mario Christodoulou, Four Corners, ABC TV and Fairfax Media, “Banking bad”, “Rollo Sherriff and Meridien Wealth: how a rock-solid institution backed impenitent maverick”, “Misconduct claims widen in CBA’s planning scandal”
John Lyons, Janine Cohen, Sylvie Le Clezio and Mary Fallon, Four Corners, ABC TV, and The Australian, “Stone cold justice”
Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker, Fairfax Media, “Terror touches down”, “Visa scam couple flee with $1.2million”, “Rogue operator”

ALL MEDIA: INTERVIEW
Ellen Fanning and David Hardaker, The Observer Effect, SBS, “Neutralising the noise – how Coles does business”
Sarah Ferguson, 7:30, ABC TV, “Joe Hockey”
David Speers, Sky News, “What is metadata?”

WALKLEY DOCUMENTARY AWARD
Pat Fiske, Amin Palangi and Sanaz Fotouhi, Bower Bird Films, Love Marriage in Kabul
Dan Goldberg and Danny Ben-Moshe, Mint Pictures & Identity Films/ABC TV, Code of Silence
Sue Clothier and Jaya Balendra, Northern Pictures/SBS Online, Cronulla Riots: The Day that Shocked the Nation

ALL MEDIA: SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Michael Brissenden, Ewen MacAskill and Lenore Taylor, ABC News and Guardian Australia, “Australia’s spy agencies targeted Indonesian president’s mobile phone”
Paul Garvey, Hedley Thomas and Sarah Elks, The Australian, “Palmer used our cash for campaign” “Palmer signed contract restricting use of Citic funds to port operations” “Citic: Palmer plays politics card”
Paul Maley and Greg Bearup, The Australian, “That’s my boy: kids witness war’s horror”

ALL MEDIA: SOCIAL EQUITY JOURNALISM
Caitlyn Gribbin, 7.30, ABC TV, “Who is Doctor Nitschke advising?”
Belinda Hawkins, Australian Story, ABC TV, “Searching for C11 Part One”, Searching for C11 Part Two” “Breaking the Code”
Oliver Laughland and David Marr, Guardian Australia, “Doctors reveal ‘harmful’ standards of medical care for asylum seekers”, “Nauru detention: serious health risks to children revealed in confidential report”, “Australia’s detention regime sets out to make asylum seekers suffer, says chief immigration psychiatrist”

ALL MEDIA COVERAGE OF INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS
Paul Daley, Guardian Australia, “Why does the Australian War Memorial ignore frontier war?”, “The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia’s past”, “Indigenous Australians in wartime: it’s time to tell the whole story”
NITV and Frontyard Films Team, NITV, “Innocence betrayed”, “Justice just us: Bowraville special”
Geoff Thompson, Karen Michelmore and Patricia Drum, Four Corners, ABC TV, “Little boy lost”

ALL MEDIA COVERAGE OF A MAJOR EVENT OR ISSUE
ABC News Team, ABC News Digital, ABC News, News 24 and ABC Radio News, “The downing of Flight MH17”
Matt Brown, Hayden Cooper, Aaron Hollett, Stewart Watt, Michael Carey and ABC News Team, ABC News Digital, ABC TV News and ABC Radio “Gaza Conflict”
Herald Sun Team, Herald Sun, “295 Dead”, “Murder in the sky”, “Our lost kids”, “Train of tears”, “Three hours later, it was gone…”

ALL MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM
Samantha Hawley, 7:30 ABC TV, “Baby Gammy – surrogate mother disputes parents claims, focuses attention on Thai baby-making industry”
Lindsay Murdoch, The Age, “Baby Gammy was left behind”
Peter Stefanovic, Nine News, Nine Network, “War in Gaza”

9 Responses

  1. The commercial FTA channels abandoned any pretence of journalism when they plumped for “reality” show after reality show. What were once current affairs shows became consumer affair shows and ambulance chasers. Reap what ye sow.

  2. A big congrats to David Speers. He is a top notch interviewer and presenter 5 days a week! Although I am surprised the judges didn’t get behind Sarah’s bulldozer interviews for the prize. David is the quiet achiever in this industry.

  3. No surprises there. Seven and Nine, in particular, proudly proclaim themselves to be the most popular news in [insert city here] as they race each other to the bottom, but there is a yawning gap in both credibility and quality between the commercials and ABC, SBS, and Sky.

    @oztvheritage – it was a great interview. I don’t think there’s much luck involved in providing the relevant minister with an opportunity to discuss his new legislation on your current affairs program.

    Even if there was some alignment of the stars that occurred here, Spears’ style and tactics were perfect – Brandis was like a worm stuck on a pin. It was cringingly hilarious. Good job.

  4. As these awards and nominations demonstrate, virtually all the significant investigative reporting in Australia is done by the ABC. And that is precisely why the Liberals are so keen to clip it’s wings. They’re much more comfortable with Alan Jones and five-minute sound bites on breakfast television.

  6. Surely this is proof that the ABC is an important institution in our country and should not be the subject of budget cuts. There is too much ‘trashy’ news and current affairs on our television. If we don’t want to go the way of the U.K. and be flooded with tabloid tv we must keep the ABC alive and well.

  7. No wonder the government wants to reduce ABC funding… can’t have these pesky ABC journalists digging up so much relevant dirt. 7 News. 9 News, 10 News, ACA, TT, nothing to contribute? No, didn’t think so.

    Well done Aunty and Guardian.

  8. Was the David Spears interview a great interview or was it that he striked it lucky having an on fart Government minister that has no idea what he was talking about?

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