Lowy Institute Media Awards 2018 - Judges and Nominees
Channel: Lowy Institute
Date: 27/11/2018

The Lowy Institute 2018 Media Awards were held on Saturday 24 November at NSW Parliament House. The judges included Lowy Institute Board Member, Mark Ryan, Media Consultant and Former Journalist Amanda Buckley and Former AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty. They discuss the importance of the award and introduce the nominees, including Evan Williams, who won the award for his SBS Dateline episode ‘Myanmar’s Killing Fields’, which documents  the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.

Other nominees included...

Michael Bachelard and Fairfax team including Kate Geraghty, Felicity Lewis, Nick Miller, Lindsay Murdoch, Kirsty Needham and 
David Wroe – nominated for a series of articles in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Jo Chandler – nominated for her article ‘PNG’s Resource Curse’ in The Monthly.

Nick McKenzie – nominated for a series of articles in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age on Chinese foreign influence in Australia, with contributions from Richard Baker, David Crowe, Angus Grigg, Fergus Hunter, James Massola, Nick O’Malley and Alexandra Smith.

Cameron Stewart – nominated for his coverage in The Australian of President Trump’s White House.

Mark Willacy – nominated for his ABC Foreign Correspondent episode ‘The Dome’.