Finalists announced for 2024 Tasmanian Media Awards

The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance has announced the finalists for the 2024 Tasmanian Media Awards.

In selecting their 34 category finalists, the judges commented on the exceptional quality of the entries, and what a difficult job they faced.

The ABC is heavily featured, with Lucille Cutting, Clancy Balen and former Radio Today reporter Kim Napier among the finalists.

Arts Reporting:

• Lucille Cutting (ABC) “Exploring Tasmania and Japan’s relationship through a 1990’s Japanese multi million dollar box office film Tasmania Story”
• Selina Ross (ABC) “Body of Work”

Best New Journalist:

• Clancy Balen (ABC) “Body of Work”
• Tilly Hannan (WIN News) “Northern Tasmanian Tales”
• Rebecca Pridham (ABC) “Body of Work”

Best News Image:

• Nikki Davis-Jones (The Mercury) “The Stadium”
• Chris Kidd (The Mercury) “Body of Work”
• Maren Preuss (ABC) “Year in Review”

Best News Story:

• Jano Gibson (ABC) “Collision Course: The debacle impacting Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker”
• Chris Rowbottom, Jessica Moran, Andy Burns, Charlotte King, Andy Burns (ABC) “Inside a Racing Juggernaut: How One Trainer Dominates the Nation’s Harness Industry
• Amber Wilson (The Mercury) “The Tasmania Police Child Sexual Abuse Scandal”

Comment and Analysis:

• Bob Burton (Tasmanian Inquirer) “Deals and dollars”
• Adam Morton (Guardian Australia) “Australia and the Climate Crisis”
• Adam Langenburg (ABC) “Tasmanian Political Analysis”

Excellence in Legal Reporting:

• Adam Holmes (ABC) “Body of Work”
• April McLennan (ABC) “Body of Work”
• Amber Wilson (The Mercury) “The Tasmania Police Child Sexual Abuse Scandal”

Feature, Documentary or Current Affairs:

• Satria Dyer-Darmawan (The Examiner) “Toxic culture claims within George Town Fire Brigade”
• Ben Walter (Freelance) The Only Fish
• Piia Wirsu, Grant Walter, Blythe Moore, Liz Gwynn, Helen Shield (ABC) “Expanse: From the Dead”

Freelance Journalist:

• Bob Burton (Tasmanian Inquirer) “Hidden Persuaders”
• Lydia Hales (Guardian Australia) “Untangling the science of bodies, and how we see them – from dysmorphic disorder to dangerous myths about size”

Health Reporting:

• Fiona Blackwood (ABC) “Health Reporting”
• Kim Napier (ABC) “Breaking the Silence”
• Adam Langenburg (ABC) “Body of Work”

Public Service Journalism:

• Josh Duggan (7 Tasmania News) “A broken child safety system”
• Jano Gibson (ABC) Collision course: The debacle impacting Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker”
• Jessica Moran, Chris Rowbottom, Andy Burns, Charlotte King (ABC) “Stacking the Odds: Inside a Tasmanian harness racing juggernaut”

Science Techology and Development:

• Bob Burton (Tasmanian Inquirer) “Fishy Business”
• Jano Gibson (ABC) Collision course: The debacle impacting Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker”
• Adam Morton (Guardian Australia) “A year in the climate crisis”

Sports Coverage:

• Brent Costelloe (WIN Television) “AFL Exclusives”
• Jessica Moran, Chris Rowbottom, Andy Burns, Charlotte King (ABC) “Stacking the Odds: Inside a Tasmanian harness racing juggernaut”
• Chris Rowbottom (ABC) “Body of Work”

The winners will be revealed at a cocktail event on Friday, 31 May, at the Aura Event Space, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hobart.

The 2024 Journalist Of The Year Award will also be announced on the night.