Get your finest Territory Rig on and join us to celebrate the best of journalism from the Northern Territory at the 2023 NT Media Awards!

All 2023 winners, including the prestigious Journalist/Photojournalist of the Year, will be announced.

This year’s finalists are:

PRINT/TEXT

Best News Coverage supported by Media Super

• Charmayne Allison, ABC Alice Springs, “Communities in Crisis”
• Liam Mendes, The Australian, “Northern Territory body of work”
• Kristin Shorten, The Australian, “Outback Wrangler chopper crash investigation”

Best Feature Writing supported by ABC

• Matt Cunningham, Sky News Australia – Darwin Bureau, “Stories of the NT”
• Matt Garrick, ABC News Darwin, “Fight for Peace”
• Jason Walls, NT News, “Body of Work”

Best Magazine or Lift Out supported by MEAA

• The winner will be announced at the award ceremony on Saturday, November 4.
  This award recognises insightful content, creativity, production style, relevance to market, and design work within the parameters of best magazine or lift out in the print medium.

TELEVISION/RADIO

Best News Coverage supported by Nine

• Jane Bardon, ABC News Darwin. “Puncturing government claims about the Beetaloo and its gas export hub”
• Matt Cunningham, Sky News Australia – Darwin Bureau, “Children’s Commissioner Colleen Gwynne Abuse of Office”
• Matt Cunningham, Sky News Australia Darwin Bureau, “The Violence that Gripped the NT”

Best Current Affairs or Feature supported by Telstra

• Matt Cunningham, Sky News Australia Darwin Bureau, “Alena Kukla’s Story”
• Matt Garrick, ABC News Darwin, “Behind a social breakdown”
• Dane Hirst, Eleni Roussos and Andie Smith, ABC News, “’Dire’ homelessness situation in the Northern Territory worsening amid 10-year waits for public housing”

Excellence in Radio Broadcasting supported by Media Super

• Alex Barwick, ABC Alice Springs, “Body of Work”
• Jane Bardon, ABC News Darwin, “NT indigenous community alleges police resources racism after crossbow death”
• Myles Houlbrook-Walk, ABC’s triple J Hack, “The lives of young people in the Territory”
  This award recognises excellence in radio broadcasting, including both news and lifestyle reports and interviews. Judges give high regard to research, production, on air charisma and consistency. This prize can be bestowed on an individual presenter, segment or show.

ALL MEDIA

Best Online Coverage supported by City of Darwin

• Alex Barwick and Samantha Jonscher, ABC Alice Springs, “Remembering AK”
• Matt Garrick, Hamish Harty, Emily Sakzewski and Steve Vivian, ABC News Darwin, “Fight for Peace”
• Jason Walls, NT News, “Kumanjayi Walker Inquest”

Best Sports Journalism supported by MEAA

• Jane Bardon, ABC News Darwin, “Indigenous elder says ‘AFL needs to fix itself’”
• Myles Houlbrook-Walk, ABC, “Body of work”
• The ABC Alice Spring Team, “Central Australian remote football competition”

Best Crime / Court Reporting supported by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers

• Matt Cunningham, Sky News Australia / Darwin Bureau, “Matt Wright Arrest”
• Melissa Mackay, ABC News, “The crime crisis no one is talking about”
• David Wood and Christopher Walsh, NT Independent, “Fatal Failures: Behind the scenes of the Zach Rolfe affair”

Pete Davies Memorial Campaigning Journalism Award supported by NT News

• Zizi Averill and (A)manda Parkinson, NT News, “Detained and Deprived: Disability in NT jails”
• Roxanne Fitzgerald, ABC, “Turning a blind eye”
• Lee Robinson – ABC – “Iris Capital pokies war”
  The ‘Pete Davies Memorial Campaigning Journalism Award’ category recognises a campaign in any medium – radio, television, print or online – about local issues that has brought about policy or social change for the benefit of Territorians.

Indigenous Affairs Reporting supported by Northern Land Council

• Jane Bardon, ABC News Darwin, “Toxic mine dust inaction, Water map petition and The police and Peppimenarti”
• Lee Robinson, ABC, “Body of Work”
• Jesse Thompson, ABC, “Nowhere to turn”

Visual Storytelling supported by ABC

• Hamish Harty, ABC, “Body of work”
• Liam Mendes, The Australian, “Northern Territory body of work”
• (A)manda Parkinson, NT News, “(A)manda Parkinson: Body of Work”
  This award recognises the use of camera or graphics skills, sometimes combined with audio, to tell a story. It covers still photography and camerawork, artwork (including illustrations, digital photo illustrations, cartoons, or information graphics displaying creativity, innovation and style, combined with artistic technique).

GOLD AWARD

Marchbanks Young Journalist of the Year supported by MEAA

• Sierra Haigh, NT News
• Myles Houlbrook-Walk, ABC
• Riley Walter, NT News
  This category is open to people under 25 years of age with less than four years’ experience in full-time journalism, photography or camera work.