The Kennedy Awards for excellence in NSW journalism kicked off on Friday night, awarding those deemed the top of their field.
Fairfax Media’s Adele Ferguson was named journalist of the year for her exposé of the Commonwealth Bank boiler room culture, and the ABC’s Four Corners program won outstanding consumer affairs reporting and outstanding crime reporting.
See below for a list of winners:
NSW YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Joel Tozer, The Feed, SBS
NEW SOUTH WALES JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Adele Ferguson, Fairfax, ABC
OUTSTANDING FEATURE WRITING
Trent Dalton, The Australian
OUTSTANDING ONLINE VIDEO
Tony Walters, The Sydney Morning Herald
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Miranda Devine and Mark Morri, The Daily Telegraph
OUTSTANDING ONLINE NEWS BREAKING
Oliver Laughland, The Guardian
OUTSTANDING RADIO REPORTING
Natalie Peters, 2GB
OUTSTANDING RADIO COMMENTATOR
John Stanley, 2UE
OUTSTANDING TRAVEL WRITING
Sue Wallace, The Border Mail
OUTSTANDING TELEVISION NEWS REPORTING
Paula Doneman, Robert Ovadia, Tony Fox, and Duncan Farr, 7News
OUTSTANDING TELEVISION CURRENT AFFAIRS REPORTING
Mario Christodoulou, Adele Ferguson, and Deb Masters, Four Corners, ABC
OUTSTANDING COLUMNIST
Paul Daley, The Guardian
OUTSTANDING CONSUMER AFFAIRS REPORTING
Mario Christodoulou, Janine Cohen, and Linton Besser, Four Corners, ABC
OUTSTANDING REPORTING ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Natalie O’Brien, The Sun-Herald
OUTSTANDING LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
Phil Cornford