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Fairfax has come out on top at The Walkley Awards, Australia’s top awards show for journalists.
The company claimed 11 awards, dominating the print category with wins for Good Weekend for Magazine Feature Writing, the Australian Financial Review for Newspaper Feature Writing and the Smh and The Age for Print News Report.
The ABC, which won the most Walkeys last year, won nine awards, cleaning up in the radio category. News Limited won seven.
Steve Pennells, chief writer for Seven West Media’s The West Australian newspaper, won the most prestigious award, however – the Gold Walkley – and two other awards; Best Scoop for a story on the legal stoush over the estate of mining magnate Lang Hancock, and Social Equity Journalism for a feature on the drowning victims of an asylum seeker tragedy.
The Walkleys winners list in full:
Gold Walkley
Steve Pennells, The West Australian...
Fairfax has come out on top at The Walkley Awards, Australia’s top awards show for journalists.
The company claimed 11 awards, dominating the print category with wins for Good Weekend for Magazine Feature Writing, the Australian Financial Review for Newspaper Feature Writing and the Smh and The Age for Print News Report.
The ABC, which won the most Walkeys last year, won nine awards, cleaning up in the radio category. News Limited won seven.
Steve Pennells, chief writer for Seven West Media’s The West Australian newspaper, won the most prestigious award, however – the Gold Walkley – and two other awards; Best Scoop for a story on the legal stoush over the estate of mining magnate Lang Hancock, and Social Equity Journalism for a feature on the drowning victims of an asylum seeker tragedy.
The Walkleys winners list in full:
Gold Walkley
Steve Pennells, The West Australian...
- 12/2/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
Pay cable channel Starz and Chris Albrecht (formerly head of HBO) clearly want to encroach on the other big players in the business and they're coming out guns blazing. After announcing the development of a "Camelot" series and the co-production of "Torchwood," Starz has now acquired the U.S. rights to the popular Australian mob series, "Underbelly." The series is based on the book "Leadbelly" by John Silvester and Andrew Rule and is a depiction of the violent gangland wars that have occurred in Melbourne since 1998 (and according to ABC news Australia, whose effects linger even through 2010). In 2008, when the Nine Network was ready to air "Underbelly" after having shot the series at the precise locations where events took place, it caused such a ruckus (trials were ongoing) that a judge blocked the show from being aired in Victoria.
The show gained both critical and audience acclaim, and having previously...
The show gained both critical and audience acclaim, and having previously...
- 6/23/2010
- by Cindy Davis
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