The Daily Telegraph journalists, cartoonist win 2022 News Awards
The Daily Telegraph has cleaned up at the 2022 News Awards overnight, scoring prized gongs including one for the masthead’s hit crime documentary series The War.
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The Daily Telegraph journalists – and also our cartoonist – have cleaned up at the prestigious 2022 News Awards.
The News Awards, held last night at The Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, celebrated outstanding journalism in different mediums across News Corp Australia and its affiliates over the last year.
The Telegraph’s team behind The War, a video series on the murderous struggle for power in Sydney’s underworld, took out the top gong in the Investigation – Visual and Audio category.
The four-part documentary, featuring crime reporters Mark Morri and Josh Hanrahan and produced by editor Ben English, deputy editor Anna Caldwell, head of news Nick Hansen and chief of staff Zac McLean, presented the Telegraph’s shoe leather crime reporting in online videos instead of solely in the newspaper.
English said he was proud of what The War had done.
“I’m incredibly excited about this for our whole team and the paper,” he said.
“When this came out I thought I loved my job … but it was only when we started making these documentaries that I truly felt invigorated like I had been when I was a cadet.
“We’ve got an incredible team at the Telegraph, I couldn’t be prouder than I am at this moment, so well done guys.”
Meanwhile, Telegraph cartoonist Warren Brown won the Bill Leak Cartoonist of the Year award for his work satirising former prime minister Scott Morrison’s secret portfolios, Manly’s pride jersey controversy and high profile media couple Peter FitzSimons and Lisa Wilkinson under the spotlight.
Brown said he was excited after being presented the award by fellow cartoonist Johannes Leak, the late Bill Leak’s son.
“Christ on a bike, I never thought this would happen and I’m so delighted, this is such a thrill, it really is” he said.
Telegraph sports journalist Julian Linden won in the Sport – State/National category for his exclusive that went global on swimming’s world governing body, FINA, making the historic decision to ban transgender athletes from competing in elite women’s races.
“The only reason I got lucky now is because I’m working with the best in the business, the other finalists tonight, Linden said.
Sports Network journalist Matt Logue also collected a gong in the same category for his Liz Cambage Australian Opals investigation, which exposed the full details of her racism scandal involving the Nigerian national team in the lead up to the Tokyo Olympics.
Logue thanked national deputy sports editor Tim Morrissey in his speech.
“His passion for quality basketball journalism is fearless and I really appreciate the support that I receive to back basketball, it’s something that we’ve grown in the last couple of years and it’s now got to the point we’re it’s starting to make big a difference,” Logue said.
The Australian national chief correspondent Hedley Thomas won the Sir Keith Murdoch Journalist of the Year Award after his reporting on alleged negligence at a Queensland government DNA testing lab.
Leading online news website News.com.au won brand of the year.
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