This masthead’s journalists, photographers, artists and designers won 11 awards and were highly commended 16 times across 31 categories at a ceremony on Friday night.
again was the most successful media outlet at the Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism, winning more than a third of this year’s awards – almost double any other outlet – after picking up a record number of nominations.
won the Grant Hattam Quill for Investigative Journalism for six years of reporting that revealed Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, wasafter a Federal Court judge found the Victoria Cross recipient murdered four unarmed prisoners in Afghanistan – a historic victory for media outlets in a multimillion-dollar landmark defamation trial.
“To our readers and subscribers, thank you for supporting the work of the state’s finest newsroom and making the stories behind these awards possible.”won the Gold Quill for breaking the story of the Leongatha lunch that killed three people. Ferguson also won the Scoop of the Year prize for his efforts.won the artwork Quill for his “Hong Bao diplomacy” illustration, which the judges said was “a sumptuous, saturated colour reference to vintage Chinese communist poster art”.
Eddie Jim’s award-winning photograph of Lotomau Fiafia and his grandson John, who are residents of Fiji’s Kioa Island, in August 2023.”, won the Quill for best feature. The judges described it as “a superbly written and well-researched piece about a highly charged, complex and highly contemporary subject, handled with sensitivity and skill”.
Penny Stephens is nominated in the sport photograph category for this portrait of Afghan soccer players Fatima and Adiba Ganji.
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