Congratulations to the ABC finalists and winners at the NSW Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
The ABC took out five major awards, including the Les Kennedy Award for Outstanding Crime Reporting, won by Elise Worthington and Kyle Taylor from the ABC Investigations team for their Four Corners report .
Former Chief Foreign Correspondent Phil Williams, who this year, was named as Outstanding Team Player.
Cinematographer Andrew Taylor won the Gary Ticehurst Award for Outstanding TV Camera Work and Andy Park, Alex McDonald and Fred Shaw collected the Kennedy Award for Outstanding Reporting on the Environment.
Alex Mann and Kevin Nguyen won the Sean Flannery Award for Outstanding Radio Journalism.
Full list of ABC finalists and winners
The Les Kennedy Award Outstanding Crime Reporting
- Winner: Kyle Taylor, Elise Worthington – Four Corners, ABC TV
- Caro Meldrum-Hanna – ABC TV
The Sean Flannery Award Outstanding Radio Journalism
- Winner: Alex Mann, Kevin Nguyen – Background Briefing, ABC
- Mark Willacy – ABC Investigations
Outstanding News Photo
- Kevin Nguyen – ABC News
- Brendan Esposito – ABC Online
The Cliff Neville Award Outstanding Team Player
- Winner: Phil Williams ABC
Outstanding Sports Reporting
- Quentin McDermott, Greg Hassall – Australian Story
Outstanding Indigenous Affairs Journalism
- Australian Story – ABC
The Gary Ticehurst Award Outstanding TV Camera Work
- Winner: Andrew Taylor – ABC
Outstanding TV News Reporting
- Lorna Knowles – ABC News
Outstanding Nightly Current Affairs
- Adele Ferguson, Chris Gillett, Matt O’Sullivan – 7.30, ABC-TV
Outstanding Long Form Current Affairs
- Caro Meldrum-Hanna – ABC
- Adele Ferguson – ABC
Outstanding Reporting on the Environment
- Winner: Andy Park, Alex McDonald, Fred Shaw – 7.30, ABC TV
Outstanding Consumer Affairs Reporting
- Kevin Nguyen – ABC
Outstanding Court & Legal Affairs Reporting
- Winsome Denyer – Australian Story
- Amy Bainbridge – ABC
Outstanding Investigative Journalism
- Elise Worthington & Kyle Taylor – Four Corners, ABC-TV
Outstanding Feature Writing
- Tracey Shelton – abc.net.au
Outstanding Political Reporting
- Paul Farrell, Alex McDonald, Kirsten Robb – 730, ABC-TV
Outstanding Foreign Correspondent
- Sarah Ferguson – Foreign Correspondent, ABC-TV
