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Logies relent on Community TV eligiblity
The 2010 Logie Awards will allow Community Television broadcasters to submit for its Outstanding categories for the first time.
The shift follows a campaign in 2009 by Channel 31 producer Shannon Marinko to submit The Bazura Project for consideration in a year when comedy was considered fairly slim.
At the time he was knocked back, with the Logies citing Free to Air and Pay TV eligibility and associated rulings. That drew the attention of Media Watch which began raising questions about eligibility.
Since then Freeview has embraced the Community TV sector and the …
Fairfax journo joins Four Corners
Sydney Morning Herald environment editor Marian Wilkinson is joining the Four Corners team.
Wilkinson has previously worked as an Executive Producer of Four Corners, but more recently has been writing for Fairfax newspapers including the The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
With a career spanning radio, television and print, she has covered politics, national security, terrorism and refugees issues and served as a foreign correspondent in Washington DC.
She recently covered the Copenhagen climate change conference.
“Marian is a formidable journalist with an impressive track record. She will be an important addition to the …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
November 09: Rove, Roscoe, Rafters and 7TWO
November:
7TWO is on the air
Toby quits Idol
A Prime concern: where is 7TWO?
Gone: The Spearman Experiment
‘Junglist’ ready to move on
Austar offers MyStar HD
SBS: Top Gear loss “not the be-all and end-all”
The Rafters Wedding
2.6m stop for the Cup
Community TV wins digital breakthrough
Murphy Brown reunion
Ally McBeal reunion
PJ sings for Don
Matthew Johns’ contract expires
Matt Passmore lands (another) US lead
NZ axes Dancing with the Stars
‘Roscoe’ calls it quits
Merrick and Rosso ending radio gig
Jonathan Holmes: “Pwned!”…
Seven dominates Walkley Awards
The Seven Network has dominated the television awards at the 2009 Walkley Awards, the country’s top prizes in media journalism.
Seven won four awards, including accolades for Seven News and Today Tonight.
The ABC picked up three awards, for Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent.
SBS won two, for Dateline and the Forbidden Lie$ documentary.
Nine’s Tracy Grimshaw won the interviewing award for A Current Affair.
SBS screened an edited and delayed broadcast of the awards last night. The awards for print, radio, television and online media were dominated by wins to stories covering the Black Saturday …
triple j with the doctor ending
ABC series triple j with the doctor is finishing after four seasons.
The youth show hosted by triple j radio presenter The Doctor (Lindsay McDougall) aired its last ever episode on Monday night on ABC2.
The sometimes-irreverent show included interviews, comedy, music performances, segments from Sam Simmons (The Urban Monkey with Murray Foote) and radio shows including Hack and behind the scenes footage from radio shows.
The Doctor hosted the show linking together various elements of the show. The episode which aired on Monday only indicated a 2009 final, not the end of the …
Returning: Walkley Awards
SBS World News Australia’s Anton Enus will host the 2009 Walkley Awards this Thursday, with the Sydney Morning Herald’s Annabel Crabb.
The country’s journalism awards will be held at the Australian Jockey Club, Sydney.
Anthony Ackroyd will be doing his best the Prime Minister Rudd impression while Roy and HG, Gerry Connolly and Dan Illic will also be adding some much-needed humour to the occasion.
This year the Journalistic Leadership, Nikon Photographer of the Year, Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism and the coveted Gold Walkley will be joined by new awards for Best Scoop …
25 years on the Dateline
“I’ve made a living out of asking ‘Why?’” explains George Negus.
“It’s what differentiates News from Current Affairs. News asks ‘how, when, where, what, who and when.’ But Current Affairs exists entirely, I think it should anyway, on asking the question ‘Why?’
“There’s plenty of sources of information these days that will tell you what’s happening but they won’t always tell you why.”
Dateline, SBS’ flagship Current Affairs programme, has been asking “Why’ for 25 years, as the country’s longest running international Current Affairs show. This week it …
2009 Walkley Awards: nominees
UPDATED: The ABC and the Seven Network dominate the television nominees in the 2009 Walkley Awards.
The ABC and Seven lead the pack with SBS and Nine also nominated. Sky News received a commendation.
Amongst the television nominees for the country’s annual journalism awards are the controversial Four Corners report on sex in sport, which led to Nine standing down NRL commentator Matthew Johns. A Current Affair’s Tracy Grimshaw is nominated for her interviews with Johns, Nick D’Arcy and Simon Cowley.
Seven’s new Sunday Night also lands two nominations and the ABC’s Hack Half …
Foreign Correspondent: Orphans of the Storm
Here’s an episode of Foreign Correspondent that sounds like a prime candidate for Logie and Walkley Award nominations.
Following 2008 Cyclone Nargis in Burma, foreign journalists were banned and even local camera crews risked jail filming in the disaster.
Cyclone Nargis brought unparalleled devastation to Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta leaving thousands dead, and millions displaced and homeless. This week the ABC screens the footage of the survivors, with tens of thousands of children alone traumatised and torn from their homes and families. To capture these stories, Burmese camera crews took an extraordinary risk …
Dateline journo wins again
Dateline Video Journalist Sophie McNeill has won the YEN Young Woman of the Year Award for 2008 as well as the YEN Journalist of the Year Award.
The YEN awards celebrate the achievements of young women 35 years and under, who are making a difference across a range of industries.
McNeill had already won the Young Australian Journalist of the Year for her story, Palestine: Divided, It Falls by the Walkley Foundation in July.
“We are very lucky to have a journalist with her bravery and nose for a story working for Dateline,’” …