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Kennedy Awards (journalism)
The Kennedy Awards, also formerly known as the NRMA Kennedy Awards, are Australian awards for journalism based in Sydney, New South Wales, run by the Kennedy Foundation, and named in honour of Indigenous Australian journalist Les Kennedy, who died in 2011. there are 34 categories in the annual event, with the main prize being The Kennedy Prize – Journalist of the Year, while a Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded each year as well. History Commencing in 2012, named in honour of Indigenous journalist Les Kennedy (1958–2011) in the year after his death, the intention was to stage an event in NSW equivalent to journalism awards in other states and territories. However the Kennedy Awards quickly grew to being a national event. The Kennedy Foundation was created as a charitable organisation on 7 March 2014 in order to attract funds for the awards and other endeavours, including providing scholarships for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander journalists. The awards h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the journalist, occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. The appropriate role for journalism varies from country to country, as do perceptions of the profession, and the resulting status. In some nations, the news media are controlled by government and are not independent. In others, news media are independent of the government and operate as private industry. In addition, countries may have differing implementations of laws handling the freedom of speech, freedom of the press as well as slander and Libel, libel cases. The proliferation of the Internet and smartphones has brought significant changes to the media landscape since the turn of the 21st century. This has created a shif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Frilingos
Peter Frilingos (1944–2004) was a sports journalist and commentator, best known for his work as a rugby league writer. Frilingos started his career in journalism in February 1962 at the Sydney ''Daily Mirror'' and within two years he wrote his first piece on rugby league. Frilingos soon became one of the leading rugby league writers in Sydney. In 1996 he transferred to the ''Daily Telegraph''. His reporting methods and integrity came under severe scrutiny during the Super League war. While he originally supported the ARL, he began openly endorsing Super League after a closed door meeting with News Limited management. This led to him being branded News Limited's "Chief Toady" by Media Watch. He has an award named after him in the National Rugby League's Dally M Medal The Dally M Medal is awarded each year (annually) to the player voted for as the ' Player of the year' over the National Rugby League (NRL) regular season. The awards are named in honour of Australian former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine News
Nine News (stylized as 9News) is a national News agency, news service on the Nine Network in Australia. Its flagship program is an hour-long ''9News'' bulletin at 6:00 pm, with editions produced by Nine's owned-and-operated stations in TCN, Sydney, GTV (Australian TV station), Melbourne, QTQ, Brisbane, NWS (TV station), Adelaide, and STW, Perth. Regional editions for Northern New South Wales and the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast are broadcast under the NBN Television, NBN News brand and are produced in NBN (TV station), Newcastle. A supplementary regional news program for the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast in Queensland also airs every weeknight. National bulletins air throughout the day and evening, broadcast from Nine's headquarters in Sydney. Until the mid-2000s, ''Nine News'' was positioned as the highest-rated news service in Australia, but it was overtaken by rival news service ''Seven News'' in 2005 before regaining the top position in 2013. History ''9News, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris O'Keefe
Chris O'Keefe (born 4 July 1981) is an Australian former journalist and radio host. He is best known for his work with Nine Entertainment, as a reporter for ''Nine News'', and as a presenter for Nine Radio's Sydney station 2GB. Career O'Keefe began his career in 2008 with an internship at ''St George and Sutherland Shire Leader'' before moving to television in 2010 as a reporter for ''Ten News'' on the Gold Coast. O'Keefe joined the Nine Network as a reporter for ''Nine News'' on the Gold Coast in 2012, before moving to Brisbane in 2013 as a police reporter for ''Nine News Queensland''. In 2014, O'Keefe relocated back to Sydney when he became a political reporter for ''Nine News Sydney''. During his time at Nine, O'Keefe has appeared on ''Today'' and has been a fill-in presenter on ''A Current Affair''. When long-serving ''A Current Affair'' host Tracy Grimshaw announced her retirement in 2022, O'Keefe was considered to be one of the front runners to be announced as her per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Corners (Australian TV Program)
''Four Corners'' is an Australian investigative journalism/current affairs (news format), current affairs documentary television program. Broadcast on ABC (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, it premiered on 19 August 1961 and is the longest-running Australian television program in history. The program is one of only five in Australia inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame. History ''Four Corners'' is based on the concept of British current affairs program ''Panorama (TV series), Panorama''. The program addresses a single issue in depth each week, showing either a locally produced program or a relevant documentary film, documentary from overseas. The program has won many awards for investigative journalism. Including 23 Logie Awards and 62 Walkley Awards. It has broken high-profile stories. A notable early example of this was the show's 1962 exposé on the appalling living conditions endured by many Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal Australians living in rural New South Wales. Found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caro Meldrum-Hanna
Caro Meldrum-Hanna is an Australian investigative journalist. Meldrum-Hanna is best known for her work with ABC Television's ''Four Corners'' program. Among Meldrum-Hanna's stories on ''Four Corners'', two notable reports are an investigation into the treatment of juveniles at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre entitled " Australia's Shame" and an investigation into a greyhound racing live baiting scandal entitled "Making a Killing". For "Making a Killing", Meldrum-Hanna was the co-recipient of the 2015 Gold Walkley, shared with producer Sam Clark and researcher Max Murch. Also in 2015, she won Journalist of the Year at the Kennedy Awards. Meldrum-Hanna is also known for a three-part ABC documentary which aired in 2018, ''Exposed: The Case of Keli Lane'', which explored the case of waterpolo player Keli Lane, who was convicted of murdering her newborn daughter in 1996. In 2015, Meldrum-Hanna spoke of the tribulations of being a female journalist covering sporting issues, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABC Television (Australian TV Network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until an organisational restructure in 2017/2018, ABC Television was also the name of a division of the ABC. The name was also used to refer to the first and for many years the only national ABC channel, before it was renamed ABC1 and then again to ABC TV. The Australian public broadcaster's television service was launched in November 1956 from its first television station in Australia, ABN (TV station), ABN Sydney. This was the second one in the country, with the commercial channel TCN having launched two months earlier. An ABC television network covering every Australian states and territories, state and territory was completed by 1971, and in 2000 the television operations joined the ABC Radio and Regional Content, ABC radio and ABC Online, online divisions at the Corporation's Ultimo, New South Wales, Ultimo headquarters in Sydney in 2000. The ABC pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfax Media
Fairfax Media was a media (communication), media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in 1841. The Fairfax family retained control of the business until late in the 20th century. The company also owned several regional and national Australian newspapers, including ''The Age'', ''Australian Financial Review'' and ''Canberra Times'', majority stakes in property business Domain Group and the Macquarie Radio Network, and joint ventures in streaming service Stan (company), Stan and online publisher HuffPost, HuffPost Australia. The group's last chairman was Nick Falloon and the CEO was Greg Hywood. On 26 July 2018, Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment Co. announced it had agreed on terms for a merger between the two companies. Shareholders in Nine Entertainment Co. took a 51% of the combined entity and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Ferguson
Adele Ferguson is an Australian investigative journalist, best known for her series of exposés of malfeasance in the franchising, aged care, and financial services sectors in Australia which have resulted in major inquiries including the Hayne Royal Commission. Career After graduating from the University of Adelaide with degrees in economics and arts, Ferguson began a cadetship at '' The Advertiser'' newspaper. She then worked at ''Business Review Weekly'' magazine as senior business correspondent, and as business writer for ''The Australian'' newspaper. In 2009, she joined Fairfax Media as senior business writer and columnist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and ''The Age''. In July 2012, Ferguson released ''Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World'', an unauthorised biography of mining magnate Gina Rinehart. Rinehart's lawyers issued a subpoena for Ferguson to produce source material relating to Rinehart's son, John Hancock. The subpoena was dismis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle Herald
The ''Newcastle Herald'' (formerly branded as ''The Herald'') is a local tabloid newspaper published daily, Monday to Saturday, in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. It is the only local newspaper that serves the greater Hunter Region and Central Coast region six days a week. It is owned by Australian Community Media. Overview The ''Newcastle Herald'' is the Hunter's largest local media organisation, and enjoys a long affinity and reader involvement with the region's residents. It is also well read in Sydney (with readership figures showing a 20% increase in Sydney readership on Saturdays) and interstate, and is usually seen as an accurate record of business and local data for those looking to relocate to the region. The paper features the only classifieds section published six days a week across the region. The ''Newcastle Herald'' employs more than 310 full-time staff, and injects $17 million into the local economy each year. History The ''Newcastle Herald'' had its o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne McCarthy (journalist)
Joanne Maree Therese McCarthy is an Australian investigative journalist. Working for ''The Newcastle Herald'', McCarthy wrote more than 1,000 articles on Catholic Church child sex abuse cases in the Hunter region. McCarthy's journalism was a decisive factor in Julia Gillard's decision to announce the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Life and career The oldest of 11 children, McCarthy grew up in a Catholic family and attended Catholic and public schools. Following a brief period of working as a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, she began her journalism career with a cadetship at the ''Gosford Star'' in 1980 before moving to the ''Central Coast Express Advocate''. In 2002, she joined ''The Newcastle Herald''. ''The Newcastle Herald'' journalist Jeff Corbett had been reporting on the Catholic Church scandals around Father Vincent Ryan and Father Jim Fletcher. Following Ryan's conviction and sentencing in 1996, Corbett wrote that "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate McClymont
Kathryn Anne McClymont is a journalist who writes for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. Notable for exposing corruption in politics, trade unions, sport, and horse racing, she has received death threats because of her exposés. She has won many awards for her reporting, including the 2002 Gold Walkley Award for her work on the Canterbury Bulldogs salary cap breaches. She is best known for her series of articles and book about New South Wales Labor Party politician Eddie Obeid. Early life and education McClymont grew up on a farm and attended school in Orange, New South Wales. She completed her high school education as a boarding student at Frensham School in Mittagong and matriculated in the top 2 percent of the state's HSC students. In 1981 she graduated from the University of Sydney with a BA (Hons) in English literature. While at university McClymont set up a busking booth at Kings Cross to supplement her income. She answered questions for 40 cents, argued for 50 cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
