The Sydney Morning Herald’s Kate McClymont was the big winner at Nsw journalism celebration The Kennedy Awards.
McClymont won scoop of the year, outstanding investigative reporting and Nsw reporter of the year for her work for the Fairfax Media title on the Craig Thomson scandal.
The Kennedy Awards – run for the first time – celebrate Fairfax crime journalist Les Kennedy who died a year ago.
Fairfax won the most awards, picking up 12 on the night. News Limited took out six, mainly for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, along with The Daily Advertiser Wagga Wagga being recognised for outstanding regional reporting.
Next came The ABC with four awards, including two for Four Corners’ Quentin McDermott.
2Gb’s Ray Hadley also picked up two – for outstanding radio current affairs and outstanding radio commentator.
Independent news site The Global Mail picked up its first major honour with an award for photographer Mike Bowers.
McClymont won scoop of the year, outstanding investigative reporting and Nsw reporter of the year for her work for the Fairfax Media title on the Craig Thomson scandal.
The Kennedy Awards – run for the first time – celebrate Fairfax crime journalist Les Kennedy who died a year ago.
Fairfax won the most awards, picking up 12 on the night. News Limited took out six, mainly for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, along with The Daily Advertiser Wagga Wagga being recognised for outstanding regional reporting.
Next came The ABC with four awards, including two for Four Corners’ Quentin McDermott.
2Gb’s Ray Hadley also picked up two – for outstanding radio current affairs and outstanding radio commentator.
Independent news site The Global Mail picked up its first major honour with an award for photographer Mike Bowers.
- 8/12/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Fairfax has dominated the short list for the first Kennedy Awards for journalism in Nsw.
The awards are to commemorate crime reporter Les Kennedy.
The shortlists were announce last night.
Fairfax had 34 shortlistings with News Ltd next in the running with 12. Then came the ABC with nine and Seven with a total of seven shortlistings.
Embarrassingly for Nine Network (four) and Ten Network (three) both were beaten by the new, philanthopically funded website Global Mail which scored five shortlistings.
2Gb was shortlisted four times, Sbs twice and 2Ue once.
The shortlist:
Most Outstanding Regional Reporting – the Paul Lockyer Award
The Daily Advertiser, Wagga Catherine Clifford and Elyse Denman, ABC Tamworth Giselle Wakatama, ABC Newcastle
Most Outstanding Crime Reporting
Matt Doran, Network Ten Yoni Bashan, The Sunday Telegraph Lisa Davies, Iilya Gridneff, Dan Proudman, Fairfax
Racing Writer of the Year, sponsored by the Australian Turf Club
Craig Young, The Sydney Morning Herald Brent Zerafa,...
The awards are to commemorate crime reporter Les Kennedy.
The shortlists were announce last night.
Fairfax had 34 shortlistings with News Ltd next in the running with 12. Then came the ABC with nine and Seven with a total of seven shortlistings.
Embarrassingly for Nine Network (four) and Ten Network (three) both were beaten by the new, philanthopically funded website Global Mail which scored five shortlistings.
2Gb was shortlisted four times, Sbs twice and 2Ue once.
The shortlist:
Most Outstanding Regional Reporting – the Paul Lockyer Award
The Daily Advertiser, Wagga Catherine Clifford and Elyse Denman, ABC Tamworth Giselle Wakatama, ABC Newcastle
Most Outstanding Crime Reporting
Matt Doran, Network Ten Yoni Bashan, The Sunday Telegraph Lisa Davies, Iilya Gridneff, Dan Proudman, Fairfax
Racing Writer of the Year, sponsored by the Australian Turf Club
Craig Young, The Sydney Morning Herald Brent Zerafa,...
- 7/26/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
Australian filmmaker Andrew Wight was killed over the weekend in a tragic helicopter crash. He was 52.
Best known for producing and co-writing last year.s 3D feature film Sanctum, Wight and American cinematographer Mike deGruy, who also died in the crash,.were flying around Nsw.s south coast when the chopper crashed.
A Nsw police media report said emergency services were called to the scene at about 3.55pm on Saturday at an airstrip in Jaspers Brush, near Nowra. Nsw Police and other emergency services attended and found the helicopter . a Robinson R-44 . well alight.
The pair were working together on a new National Geographic project when the accident happened.
National Geographic Society president Tim Kelly paid tribute to the pair, saying both Andrew and Mike were part of the society.s extended family.
.Our hearts, prayers, and thoughts go out to their loved ones. They accomplished so much, but were taken too early,...
Best known for producing and co-writing last year.s 3D feature film Sanctum, Wight and American cinematographer Mike deGruy, who also died in the crash,.were flying around Nsw.s south coast when the chopper crashed.
A Nsw police media report said emergency services were called to the scene at about 3.55pm on Saturday at an airstrip in Jaspers Brush, near Nowra. Nsw Police and other emergency services attended and found the helicopter . a Robinson R-44 . well alight.
The pair were working together on a new National Geographic project when the accident happened.
National Geographic Society president Tim Kelly paid tribute to the pair, saying both Andrew and Mike were part of the society.s extended family.
.Our hearts, prayers, and thoughts go out to their loved ones. They accomplished so much, but were taken too early,...
- 2/5/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
Stephan Elliott is a multi-tasker. For most of his career, he has juggled both writing and directing duties and now, while on the phone with If, he is in the middle of sweeping his house.
If A Few Best Men seems like a change of pace, it isn't. Although the script was written by Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral), the film's producers gave the director the freedom to contribute his own rewrites.
"There's an awful lot of me in there," he says. "Dean took care of the English and I took care of the Australian."
Elliott first read the script after being persuaded by producer Gary Hamilton.
"I haven't read other people's scripts for years because I basically develop my own," he says. "So he kind of got me in an evil, manipulative way and talked me into reading it."
(For the record, Hamilton's dastardly attack plan involved seeing...
If A Few Best Men seems like a change of pace, it isn't. Although the script was written by Dean Craig (Death at a Funeral), the film's producers gave the director the freedom to contribute his own rewrites.
"There's an awful lot of me in there," he says. "Dean took care of the English and I took care of the Australian."
Elliott first read the script after being persuaded by producer Gary Hamilton.
"I haven't read other people's scripts for years because I basically develop my own," he says. "So he kind of got me in an evil, manipulative way and talked me into reading it."
(For the record, Hamilton's dastardly attack plan involved seeing...
- 1/24/2012
- by Amanda Diaz
- IF.com.au
ABC’s Chief of Staff to the Sydney newsroom Bernie Keenan, 66, died suddenly last night while jogging.
Keenan’s television career began as a cameraman for commercial TV on international assignments around the world, Bernie was Chief of Staff for the Seven Network before moving to the Sydney’s ABC office, where he’d been for most of the past decade.
In a statement, Director of ABC News Kate Torney said “Bernie drove our news gathering operations in New South Wales and was a central figure across the network. He was a warm and generous colleague and we will miss him greatly.”
Don Lange, the ABC’s Head of News Programming said “Bernie was a stalwart of the newsroom and will be sadly missed in Sydney and around the Network.”
Outside of work, Keenan volunteered at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Randwick and kept fit through running and ocean kayaking.
Keenan’s television career began as a cameraman for commercial TV on international assignments around the world, Bernie was Chief of Staff for the Seven Network before moving to the Sydney’s ABC office, where he’d been for most of the past decade.
In a statement, Director of ABC News Kate Torney said “Bernie drove our news gathering operations in New South Wales and was a central figure across the network. He was a warm and generous colleague and we will miss him greatly.”
Don Lange, the ABC’s Head of News Programming said “Bernie was a stalwart of the newsroom and will be sadly missed in Sydney and around the Network.”
Outside of work, Keenan volunteered at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Randwick and kept fit through running and ocean kayaking.
- 9/1/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
The three Australian journalists killed in a helicopter crash last week have been remembered by their colleagues. Reporter Paul Lockyer, who was working in Lake Eyre in remote South Australia alongside pilot Gary Ticehurst and cameraman John Bean before their helicopter went down, is being honoured in a memorial service today by friends, family and former ABC colleagues. The ABC's director of news Kate Torney said: "I think there's a numbness around The ABC. It's been a terribly sad time for this organisation and clearly a terribly sad time for the families of those we've lost. "Paul was an amazing journalist... [he] just had a wonderful way with people but he was also just the loveliest man around the office. [He was an] incredibly compassionate man, very generous with others (more)...
- 8/26/2011
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
The Opera House is hugely recognisable – but there are literally millions of people who visit it each year, who have never been to an actual performance there,” says Caroline David, producer of the Ship Song Project. Based upon Nick Cave’s “The Ship Song”, it is an online campaign that invited Australian and international musicians to pay homage to the theatre.
“The Opera House like all businesses needs to make money to survive, so the aim with this project was to de-mystify the House and make it accessible to everyone and in particular the youth market,” explains David, a producer at Exit Films. The film moves through both back and front of house, introducing performers such as Silverchair’s Daniel Johns, Kev Carmody, Sarah Blasko, Martha Wainwright, Sydney Symphony, The Temper Trap, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, and John Bell of Bell Shakespeare who all offered their time for free. On their scheduled shoot day,...
“The Opera House like all businesses needs to make money to survive, so the aim with this project was to de-mystify the House and make it accessible to everyone and in particular the youth market,” explains David, a producer at Exit Films. The film moves through both back and front of house, introducing performers such as Silverchair’s Daniel Johns, Kev Carmody, Sarah Blasko, Martha Wainwright, Sydney Symphony, The Temper Trap, The Australian Chamber Orchestra, and John Bell of Bell Shakespeare who all offered their time for free. On their scheduled shoot day,...
- 8/25/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Update August 24, 2011: A memorial service for Gary Ticehurst will be held in Sydney at Rushcutters Bay Park, near the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, on Tuesday, August 30 at 11.30am. The service is open to anyone who would like to attend and is being held by the family and the ABC. A reel of Ticehurst's feature film work is being compiled by Matt Graham and will be screened at the memorial service. He is trying to locate images (still or moving) of Gary and his work. If you have contributions, these can be sent to Matt Graham, who can be contacted on.0430 572 770. August 22, 2011: Pilot Gary Ticehurst played a prominent role in the film and television industries for decades before last week.s tragic helicopter crash took his life alongside ABC journalist Paul Lockyer...
- 8/22/2011
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
Air crash investigators in Sydney said today it could take up to a year to identify what caused a helicopter crash that killed three Australian Broadcasting Corporation news veterans. Reporter Paul Lockyer, pilot Gary Ticehurst and cameraman John Bean died when the chopper reportedly exploded Thursday night while they were filming a documentary on Lake Eyre. There was a tourist group in town and apparently a number of them witnessed the incident, so investigators will be talking to many.
- 8/20/2011
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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