Tracy Grimshaw was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement at the Kennedy Awards at Royal Randwick last night.
During her acceptance speech she said, “Let all of this be a shot over the bow over anyone in any workplace anywhere who still thinks it’s the wild frontier land out there, because the truth is it’s just a phone call away from your own career-ending headline now.
“The jig is up — so cogitate on that.”
But she also offered a “defence of the 98 per cent of people, including the blokes in this business, who are thoroughly good humans doing their jobs”.
“I worry that the message out there is getting distorted,” she said.
“And I’m also not comfortable with young women being told they should somehow expect to leave their dignity and self-determination at the door when they get into this industry. They certainly should not and telling them that sets them up for failure. Think about it, if you’re told you’ll be bullied and harassed and you better not say anything about it when it happens, well guess what? You won’t say anything about it.”
ABC’s John Lyons was named Journalist of the Year.
The 2024 Kennedy Journalist of the Year is John Lyons. @saltydingomedia pic.twitter.com/JQcIXQE8J0
— Kennedy Foundation (@kennedyawards) August 16, 2024
TV and related winners in Bold:
All Media
Indigenous Affairs Reporting
● Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson and Tilda Colling – NT Schools in Crisis – The Australian
● Four Corners Guarded Team – Guarded – Four Corners, ABC
● Lorena Allam, Sarah Collard and Blake Sharp-Wiggins – Buried Lives: Possible Clandestine Burials at an Aboriginal Children’s Home – The Guardian
Outstanding Consumer Affairs
● Christopher Knaus and Lorena Allam – Centrepay: A Vehicle for Economic Abuse? – The Guardian
● Elise Worthington and Lesley Robinson – Ozempic Underground – Four Corners, ABC
● Nassim Khadem – Whiff of Robodebt: ATO Revives Old Tax Debts Totaling Billions – ABC News
Outstanding Court and Legal Affairs Reporting
● Paul Garvey and Rhiannon Down – Direction 99 Debacle – The Australian
● Samantha Maiden, Kerry Warren, Lisa Muxworthy and Alexandra Foster – The Lehrmann Trials – news.com.au
● Tiffiny Genders – Police Secrets – Nine News
Outstanding Crime Reporting
● Brenden Hills, Heath Kelly and Ankit Mishra – The Baddest: Sydney’s Apex Predator Unmasked – The Saturday Telegraph & The Sunday Telegraph
● Liam Mendes – On the Ground of a Youth Crime Crisis – The Australian
● Phil Goyen, Sarah Greenhalgh and Ben Fogarty – Sextortion: Teens, Tech and Tragedy – 7 News
Outstanding Finance Reporting
● Angus Grigg, Elise Potaka, Carla Hildebrandt and Dylan Welch – Super Power – Four Corners, ABC
● Michael Atkin and Loretta Florance – Dirty Money: How Criminals are Getting Away with Laundering Stolen Cash Through Australian Companies – Special Reporting Team – ABC
● Neil Chenoweth – Cracking the Tax Office Omerta – The Australian Financial Review
Outstanding Foreign Correspondent
● Amanda Hodge – Southeast Asia Stories -The Australian
● Colin Cosier – Finding Yusuf: Part 1 and 2 – SBS
● John Lyons – The Forever War – Four Corners, ABC
Outstanding Investigative Reporting
● Chris Reason – The Bishop of Broome – Seven News
● Paul Garvey and Rhiannon Down – Direction 99 Debacle – The Australian
● Samantha Maiden – Pay you cash: Spotlight’s Trial and Error – news.com.au
Outstanding Online News Breaking
● 9News Bondi Junction Attack Team – Bondi Junction Attack – Nine News
● Samantha Maiden, Kerry Warren, Lisa Muxworthy, Ally Foster and Liz Bourke – The Lehrmann Trials – news.com.au
● The Sydney Morning Herald Newsroom – Bondi Junction Coverage – The Sydney Morning Herald online & across Nine Publishing
Outstanding Political Reporting
● Andrew Probyn & Bailey Kenzie – The Immigration Directive – Nine Network
● Ewin Hannan – John Setka vs the AFL – The Australian
● Paul Garvey and Rhiannon Down – Direction 99 Debacle – The Australian
Outstanding Reporting on Human Rights, Social or Religious Affairs
● Alexi Demetriadi – Hate Speech in NSW – The Australian
● Four Corners Guarded Team – Guarded – Four Corners ABC
● Linton Besser, Ronan Sharkey and Brendan Esposito – Rainbow Lodge – ABC
Outstanding Reporting on the Environment
● Daniel Clarke – Kangaroo Island Environmental Disaster – Ad Hoc Docs, Foxtel/Binge, The Guardian, Network 7
● Kamin Gock, Angus Grigg and Lesley Robinson – Snowy 2.0 and The $2 Billion Mistake – ABC
● Sean Mantesso, Hellena Souisa, Sally Brooks and Raffa Athallah – The Price of Progress: Inside Indonesia’s Nickel Rush – ABC
Outstanding Sport Reporting
● Jeremy Story Carter – She Can Play – ABC
● Julian Linden – Under the Surface – The Daily Telegraph
● Tom Decent – The Secret Zoom Call That Brought Down a Wallabies Coach – The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age
Outstanding Team Player or Mentor
● Gareth Harvey – Nine Network
● John Lyons – ABC
● Kathryn Wicks – The Sydney Morning Herald
Scoop of the Year
● Andrew Probyn and Bailey Kenzie – The Immigration Directive – Nine Network
● Clementine Cuneo, Mark Morri and Josh Hanrahan – A killer in the ranks: Cop Wanted Over Paddington Double Murder – The Daily Telegraph
● Nick McKenzie, Michael Bachelard and Amelia Ballinger – Pezzullo Text Scandal – 60 Minutes, The Age & The Sydney Morning Herald
Regional Broadcast Reporting
● Daniel Clarke – Kangaroo Island Body of Work – Ad Hoc Docs, Foxtel/Binge, The Guardian,Network 7
● Micaela Hambrett and Joanna Woodburn – Dust Up, Cadia Gold Mine Investigation – ABC
● Toni Ambrogetti and Michael Evans – Grooming and sexual abuse of Narrabri student Dean Gray uncovered – NBN/Nine
Television / Video
Outstanding News Camera Coverage
● Fletcher Yeung – Volunteer Doctors Evacuate Wounded Soldiers in Ukraine – ABC News
● Nine News Camera Team – Coverage of Bondi Stabbings – Nine News
● Paul Peric – Murdered in Mexico: Callum and Jake Robinson – Nine News
Outstanding Nightly Television Current Affairs Reporting
● Hannah Sinclair – NDIS Investigation – A Current Affair, & Nine Network
● Alison Piotrowski – Murdered in Mexico: Callum & Jake Robinson – Nine News
● Peta Credlin – Unearthing the Full Uluru Statement – Sky News Australia
Outstanding Television Current Affairs Reporting – Long Form
● Agnes Teek and Colin Cosier – Finding Yusuf – Dateline, SBS
● Amelia Ballinger and Nick McKenzie – The Power Player, 60 Minutes, Nine Network
● Anne Connolly, Amy Donaldson and Jessica Longbottom – Careless- Four Corners, ABC
Outstanding Television News Reporting
● Ben Lewis – October 7 Attacks – SBS World News
● Chris Reason – Israel-Hamas War – 7 News
● 9News & Current Affairs Team- Nine News breaking/rolling coverage of Bondi Stabbings – Nine Network
Outstanding Documentary
● Dora Weekley, Orly Danon, Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters – Revealed: Ben Roberts-Smith Truth on Trial – Stan
● 7 News Digital Team – The Devils Outback Playground – 7 Plus and YouTube
● Katrina McGowan, Janine Hosking, Mat Cornwell and Carrie Fellner – How to Poison a Planet – Stan
Source: news.com.au
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