WA Media Awards
Congratulations to all the ABC finalists and winners in the WA Media Awards.
ABC journalists and teams were awarded for photography, audio news and features, science and environment reporting, regional and community reporting and culture and arts reporting.
A multi award winner on the night was Erin Parke, who is based in Broome with the ABC’s national regional reporting team.
Parke was awarded for “Catching a Fugitive“, a gripping two-part series chronicling tracking a criminal who had spent almost a decade on the run.
She was also recognised for her story on the pandemic-fuelled wave of illegal fishing boats and shared the Culture and Arts reporting prize with Andrew Seabourne for Kimberley Girl.
Parke was also part of the team with Sam Tomlin, Hannah Barry, Hinako Shiraishi and Eddie Williams awarded for their coverage of youth crime in the Kimberley.
Also among the awarded work was Sean Tarek Goodwin’s “In the pits“, exposing problems in mental health services in the Goldfields region.
Jessica Hayes won the Community/Regional Photography category for her body of work.
The New Journalist or Cadet prize was won by Keane Bourke.
Full list of ABC finalists and winners
PHOTOGRAPHY CATEGORIES
Community/Regional Photography
- Jessica Hayes, ABC, “Body of Work” WINNER
TELEVISION/VIDEO JOURNALISM:
News Reporting
- Evelyn Manfield, ABC, “Cleo Smith found alive”
Video Feature
- Anthony Pancia, ABC, “The Changing Face of WA’s Industry”
Camerawork
- Anthony Pancia, ABC, “The Changing Face of WA’s Industry”
RADIO/AUDIO JOURNALISM
Audio News Story
- Samantha Goerling, ABC, “Boom Town Housing Crisis”
- Sean Tarek Goodwin, ABC, “In the pits: Mental health in Australia’s biggest mining town” WINNER
- Isabel Moussalli, ABC, “The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis”
RADIO/AUDIO JOURNALISM
Audio Feature – Based on a Single Story
- Erin Parke, ABC, “How to Catch a Fugitive” WINNER
- Kirsti Melville, ABC, “Martuwarra Fitzroy River”
MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
Multimedia News
- James Carmody, ABC News, “The Cleo Smith Abduction”
Multimedia Feature
- Claire Moodie, ABC, “The Truth of New Norcia”
ALL MEDIA
Science and Environmental Report
- Erin Parke, ABC, “Pandemic Surge in Illegal Foreign Fishing” WINNER
Sports Report – The Gilmour-Christian Prize
- Dinushi Dias and Zoe Keenan, ABC, “Racism and sexism in country football”
Social Equity Report
- Erin Parke, ABC, “COVID in the Kimberley”
Regional and Community – Three News Stories/Features outside a 70km radius of Perth
- Erin Parke, ABC, “How to Catch a Fugitive”
- Sam Tomlin, Hannah Barry, Erin Parke, Hinako Shiraishi and Eddie Williams, ABC, “Coverage of Youth Crime in the Kimberley” WINNER
New Journalist or Cadet—The Eaves-Prior-Day Prize
- Keane Bourke, ABC, “Body of Work” WINNER
Culture and Arts Report—The A.H. Kornweibel Arts Prize
- Erin Parke and Andrew Seabourne, ABC, “Kimberley Girl” WINNER
Media contact: Sally Jackson | ABC Communications | jackson.sally@abc.net.au
