The ABC has 26 finalists across 14 categories in this year’s Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism, including Foreign Correspondent’s Stephanie March being shortlisted as the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year.
The ABC is fielding all four finalists for the category of TV Camera Work (Creative).
In two other categories it has three out of four finalists: Radio Current Affairs and Regional and Rural Journalism.
There are also multiple ABC finalists in the categories of Coverage of Women in Sport, Innovation in Journalism, Radio News, Sports Feature, and TV/Video Feature.
The winners will be announced in Melbourne on Friday 15 March.
The full list of ABC finalists:
GRAHAM PERKIN JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Stephanie March, Foreign Correspondent
BEST BREAKING NEWS OR LIVE COVERAGE
ABC News Victoria, ‘Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews Resigns’
COVERAGE OF WOMEN IN SPORT
Elias Clure, ABC News,
Richelle Hunt, ABC Radio Melbourne,
EXCELLENCE IN INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS REPORTING
Joseph Dunstan, ABC News, and ‘Victoria’s treaty journey’
INNOVATION IN JOURNALISM
Kai Feng, Jarrod Fankhauser, Olivia Ralph and Steven Viney, ABC News,
Pat McGrath, Mark Doman, Alex Palmer, Katia Shatoba, Thomas Brettell and Inga Ting, ABC News,
MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS AND MEDIA
Casey Briggs and Ahmed Yussuf, ABC News,
RADIO CURRENT AFFAIRS
Raf Epstein, Erin Mathews, Julian Virgona and Nial Hosken, ABC Radio Melbourne Mornings,
Oliver Gordon, AM – ABC Radio,
Richard Willingham, ABC News
RADIO NEWS
Danny Tran, ABC News, ‘The Melbourne hospital where radiation leaked through the floor’
Richard Willingham, ABC News, ‘Paul Denyer to die in jail: Labor backflips on special laws’
REGIONAL AND RURAL JOURNALISM
Rachel Clayton, Charlotte King and Andy Burns, ABC News,
Emma D’Agostino, Danielle Bonica and Josie Taylor, ABC Central Vic,
Tim Lee, Landline,
REPORTING ON DISABILITY ISSUES
Grace Jennings-Edquist, ABC Everyday,
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Dan Oaks, ABC News,
SPORTS FEATURE
Jeremy Story Carter, ABC News,
Louise Milligan, Mary Fallon, Sarah Curnow and Carla Hildebrandt, Four Corners,
TV CAMERA WORK (CREATIVE)
Andrew Altree-Williams, 7.30,
Andrew Altree-Williams, 7.30,
Simon Winter, ABC News, Australian Story,
Pete Healy, ABC News, Landline,
TV/VIDEO FEATURE
Louise Milligan, Mary Fallon and Jessica Longbottom, Four Corners,
Lauren Day, 7.30,
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