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.