ABC winners and finalists at 66th Walkley Awards

Sally Sara and Victoria Pengilley

Congratulations to the ABC journalists and teams recognised at the annual Walkley Awards.

The ABC had 15 finalists spanning a dozen categories: public service journalism, investigative journalism, coverage of community or regional affairs, sports journalism, innovation, documentary, camerawork, radio/audio news and current affairs, radio/audio feature, TV/video current affairs (short and long) and coverage of a major event or issue.

Sally Sara and Victoria Pengilley won the Walkley Award for Radio News and Current Affairs for their series of interviews about Afghanistan for ABC RN Breakfast and The World Today.

Sara, who reported from Afghanistan as an ABC correspondent, now presents The World Today.

Andy Taylor won the category for Television/Video Camerawork for his superb cinematography on Exposed: The Ghost Train Fire.

The Walkley Documentary Award went to Firestarter - The Story of Bangarra, which told the story of the First Nations dance group.

The documentary, produced by In Films and directed by Nel Minchin and Wayne Blair, was distributed internationally by ABC Commercial.

FULL LIST OF ABC FINALISTS IN THE 66TH WALKLEY AWARDS

PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM
INNOVATION
  • Emma Morris, Samuel Tate, Genelle Weule, Nathan Bazley and the Mt Resilience Team, ABC, "Mt Resilience"
COVERAGE OF COMMUNITY OR REGIONAL AFFAIRS
SPORTS JOURNALISM
RADIO/AUDIO NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
RADIO/AUDIO FEATURE
  • Alex Mann, Kevin Nguyen and the Background Briefing team, Background Briefing, ABC Radio National, "The Base Tapes"
COVERAGE OF A MAJOR NEWS EVENT OR ISSUE
  • Louise Milligan and the Four Corners Team, Four Corners, ABC, "The Canberra Bubble"
  • Laura Tingle and James Elton, 7.30, ABC, "Women, politics and accountability"
TELEVISION/VIDEO: CAMERAWORK
TELEVISION/VIDEO CURRENT AFFAIRS SHORT (LESS THAN 20 MINUTES)
TELEVISION/VIDEO CURRENT AFFAIRS LONG (MORE THAN 20 MINUTES)
  • Sarah Ferguson, Tony Jones, Patricia Drum and Lauren Day, Four Corners, ABC, "Fox and the Big Lie"
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
WALKLEY DOCUMENTARY AWARD
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