Winners of the WA Media Awards were announced on the weekend.
ABC and Seven led the television categories.
The Australian’s Paul Garvey was named the 2024 WA Journalist of the Year, and won the Beck Prize for Political Reporting, for his series of articles titled “Direction 99 Debacle”.
TV and related winners in bold:
All Media (Including online publications)
Business, Economics or Finance Report
Jesinta Burton (WAtoday) “A lotto win, a spending spree and a ‘trail of lies’: Unravelling Trent Bowden’s trading scheme”
Sarah Crawford (The West Australian) “Urban Rampage: Remote store chain accused of ripping off welfare recipients through Centrepay”
Brad Thompson, Peter Ker (AFR) “Andrew and Nicola Forrest – Splitting the Fortescue fortune”
Culture and Arts Report – The A.H. Kornweibel Arts Prize
Briana Fiore (ABC) “Concerns over music festival near sacred Wave Rock”
Victoria Laurie (Business News) “State of the Arts: Funding Fails in the Wealthy West”
Belle Taylor (The West Australian) “Flewnt in Full Flow”
Health / Medical Report
Ayla Darling, Teresa Tan, Dan Harrison (ABC) “Behind Closed Doors: How one child’s voice exposed the dangers of rape inside mental health hospitals”
Rhiannon Shine (ABC) “West Australians denied eating disorder centre”
Josh Zimmerman (The West Australian) “Joondalup Health Campus Failures”
Legal Affairs Report
Briana Fiore (ABC) “Jehovah’s Witness Investigation: When Justice Comes Knocking”
Paul Garvey (The Australian) “Direction 99 Debacle”
Rebecca Peppiatt (WAtoday, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age) “The case of the missing millions”
New Journalist or Cadet – The Eaves-Prior Day Prize
Jessica Evensen (Seven West Media)
Harriet Flinn (Seven West Media, Vice)
Erick Lopez (Seven West Media)
Political Report – The Beck Prize
Kathryn Diss (ABC) “An Avoidable Tragedy”
Paul Garvey (The Australian) “Direction 99 Debacle”
Rebecca Peppiat, Heather McNeil, Hamish Hastie (WAtoday/SMH/Age) “Detainees on the loose”
Regional & Community – Three News Stories / Features outside a 70 km radius of Perth
Alice Angeloni (ABC) “Body of Work”
Mya Kordic, Erin Parke, Rosanne Maloney, Andrew Seaborne, Vanessa Mills (ABC) “Kimberly Boat Arrivals”
Ted O’Connor (ABC) “Body of Work
Science And Environmental Report
Kathryn Diss (ABC) “An “extraordinary” phone call: How Mark McGowan undid Western Australia’s path to net zero”
Peter Milne (WAtoday) “The real legacy for WA from Alcoa”
Damian Smith, Nadia Mitsopoulos, Emma Wynne (ABC) “Being charged for free water”
Social Equity Report
Ayla Darling, Teresa Tan, Dan Harrison (ABC) “Behind closed doors: How one child’s voice exposed the dangers of rape inside mental health hospitals”
John Flint (The Sunday Times, Seven West Media) “Pretending COVID Has Gone”
Jake Sturmer, Kathryn Diss, Keane Bourke, Daryna Zadvirna (ABC) “An Avoidable Tragedy: The Death of Cleveland Dodd”
Sports Report – The Gilmoir-Christian Prize
Michael Genovese (Nine) “Saving Perth Glory”
Nadia Mitsopoulos (ABC) “WAIS gymnasts seek justice”
Ashleigh Nelson (Network 10) “Six and Out: Cricket’s Christina Matthews departs”
Television / Video Journalism
Camerawork
Briana Fiore (ABC) “Skimpies post #Me Too”
Simon Hydzik (Seven) “Isreal-Hamas War”
Anthony Pancia (ABC) “Reporting from the regions”
News Reporting
Michael Genovese (Nine) “Donna Nelson” (pictured)
Jake Sturmer, Kathryn Diss, Mitch Edgar, Lauren Buckley, Mark Evans (ABC) “An Avoidable Tragedy: The death of Cleveland Dodd”
Syan Vallance (ABC) “Floreat Family Speaks”
Video Feature
Natalie Bonjolo, Melenie Ambrose, Michelle Bunting, Alexander Smith, Josh Cable (Seven West) “Vanishing Cousins”
Michael Genovese (Nine) “Searching Forrests”
Rhiannon Shine (ABC) “ABC 7:30 Body of Work”
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