NT Independent scoops another NT Media Award for excellence in reporting

The NT Independent has won another NT Media award, this time for best text news coverage, beating the ABC and The Australianmarking the fifth gong for the online paper since it started in March 2020.

On Saturday night editor Christopher Walsh took out the prize with his entry Stock scandal: The downfall of Chief Minister Natasha Fyles.

He followed Walsh to be named a finalist in the 69th Walkley Awards last Thursday for his work on the same subject, his reporting of the political action scandal that led to the resignation of the prime minister. This is the second year in a row independent has been shortlisted in Australia’s pre-eminent national journalism awards.

The NT Journalist of the Year award went to trio Kylie Stevenson, Caroline Graham and Matilda Colling, for their entry NT schools in crisiswhich was a standalone report published in The Australian/The Weekend Australian.

The Marchbanks Award for Young Journalist of the Year was presented by the ABC’s Lillian Rangiah for her work.

Last year Walsh and reporter David Wood won the NT Media Awards for Best Crime/Court Reporting in the All Media category for their coverage of systemic police failures in the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker and the cover-up in the subsequent murder trial. from former NT police constable Zach Rolfe.

The NT Awards, organized by the Media and Entertainment Arts Alliance, the Walkley Foundation and the Darwin Press Club, were judged by a panel of academics, journalists and editors from leading media outlets across the country.

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FULL LIST OF WINNERS OF THE 2023 NT MEDIA AWARDS:

TEXT: News coverage

Christopher Walsh (NT Independent) “Stock scandal: The fall of Chief Minister Natasha Fyles”

TEXT: Best feature film

Kylie Stevenson (freelance published in The Australian Weekend Magazine) “Profile: Yingiya Guyula”

TV/RADIO: Better news coverage

Matt Cunningham (SKY News Australia) “Spotlighting Territorial News”

TV/RADIO: Best current affairs or feature film

Matt Garrick, Raveen Hunjan, Shaun Kingma, Fred Shaw (ABC) “Community Under Curfew”

TV/RADIO: Excellence in Broadcasting

Alex Barwick, Piia Wirsu, Grant Wolter, Elsa Silberstein, Blythe Moore (ABC) “Expanse: Spies in the Outback”

BEST COVERAGE ONLINE

Kylie Stevenson, Caroline Graham, Matilda Colling (Freelance, published in The Australian/The Weekend Australian) “NT schools in crisis”

BEST SPORTS JOURNALISM

Lillian Rangiah (ABC) “Sports trials and triumphs at a distance”

BETTER CRIME/COURT REPORTING

Liam Mendes (The Australian) “Body of Work”

PETE DAVIES MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN JOURNALISM AWARD

Kylie Stevenson, Caroline Graham, Matilda Colling (Freelance, published in The Australian/The Weekend Australian) “NT schools in crisis”

INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS REPORT

Kylie Stevenson, Caroline Graham, Matilda Colling (Freelance, published in The Australian/The Weekend Australian) “NT schools in crisis”

VISUAL STORYTELLER

Rebecca Parker (freelancer, published in The Australian/The Weekend Australian) “NT schools in crisis”

GOLD AWARD WINNERS

MARCHBANKS AWARD FOR THE BEST YOUNG JOURNALIST

Lillian Rangiah (ABC) “Body of Work”

2024 NT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR

Kylie Stevenson, Caroline Graham, Matilda Colling (Freelance, published in The Australian/The Weekend Australian) “NT schools in crisis”