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Young Journalist of the Year Awards 2016: winners

Nine News reporter wins the Television / Video category in Walkley’s Young Journalism awards.

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This week the Walkey Awards announced its Young Journalist awards.

ABC News journalist Elly Bradfield, 24, won the 2016 Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year. She also won the Radio / Audio category as well as the Community / Regional Journalism
category.

The Walkley Advisory Board, represented by Kate McClymont, John Stanley, Claire Harvey and Angelos Frangopoulos, said: “In an exceptionally strong field Elly Bradfield stood out for her carefully crafted stories and brilliant use of her medium, tackling difficult subjects with courage, sensitivity and innovation. This was great journalism — compelling and engaging. As audio storytelling
undergoes a worldwide renaissance, Elly’s work is up there with the best.”

Nine News Melbourne reporter Alexish Daish (pictured) won the Television / Video Journalism category for her stories, “Parolee rape”, “Ravenhall riot”, “Wild weather / Spirit of Tasmania.”

Daish joined Nine in 2007 as an intern at A Current Affair, after completing a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) at Melbourne Uni.

In 2014, she was named the Melbourne Press Club’s Young Journalist of the year at the Quill Awards.

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