Advertiser journalists called as finalists in Walkley Awards
A team of journalists from The Advertiser have been named finalists in a string of prominent awards for compelling storytelling.
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Advertiser journalists have been named Walkley Award finalists for the first time in over a decade for their exceptional work on the nationally-acclaimed podcast Dying Rose.
Douglas Smith, Kathryn Bermingham, Emily Olle, Gemma Jones, Dan Box and Jasper Leak have been short-listed for an award in the long form radio/audio category.
Dying Rose is a hard-hitting podcast series of the untold stories about how authorities reacted to the deaths of six Aboriginal women and girls.
The series was named for Rose Hunter-Hebberman, who was just 19 when she was found dead in a shed at the rear of a property in Adelaide’s inner south. Her mother Courtney has been on a quest for answers for almost four years.
The team travelled across the country to tell the stories of women and girls, including Charlene Warrior, who died in the services town of Bute.
She was missing for two weeks by the time she was found by a passer-by 100 metres from where she was last seen, a police search having failed to locate her after officers left an adjacent property unsearched because of a large dog.
It also told the story of Charli Powell, who was still a child when she was found by her boyfriend in the men’s toilet at a NSW sports oval. More than 2.4 million Australians read the stories of the women on advertiser.com.au and on other News Corp titles.
It has been 13 years since The Advertiser has been nominated for a Walkley Award.
Dying Rose has been short-listed with ABC’s Background Briefing piece ‘The Outland or the Cage’ and LiSTNR’s ‘The Children in the Pictures’.
The Dying Rose team is also among other Advertiser journalists named finalists in the 2023 News Awards.
Bermingham is a finalist in the Scoop category for her story ‘Union Boss Caught Shoplifting’, in which Australian Education Union SA boss Leah York resigned after allegations she shoplifted two items from a clothing store. No charges were ever laid.
Other journalists from The Advertiser have also been named finalists in the Human-Interest Storytelling – State/National category, including Evangeline Polymeneas and Agnes Gichuhi for their story ‘Why 23-year-old Lily Thai chose to die’, a story on a courageous young woman who used South Australia’s voluntary assisted dying laws to end her life on her own terms.
The Defending Australia campaign, led by Advertiser Editor Gemma Jones, News Corp SA Managing Director Melissa Librandi, Commercial Editor Bret Fisher and Editor-at-Large Paul Starick, is a finalist for Best Content.
Daniel Renfrey is a finalist in the category Sport – Local/Regional for his story ‘Club official who struck an opposition under-13 player’.
The Advertiser photographer Brenton Edwards is up for Photograph of the Year.
News Corp Australia executive chairman Michael Miller said the News Awards had received a record number of entries – 560 – this year.
“The journalism honoured also demonstrates the important role all of us play in serving and advocating for Australia’s many communities, whether they are cities, regional or remote,” Mr Miller said.
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