Black Saturday story wins top Walkley

27 Nov 2009, 7:32 am   -   Source: SBS, AAP
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SBS picked up two accolades at last night's Walkley awards, while the top prize went to The Australian's Gary Hughes for his personal account of Black Saturday.

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SBS picked up two accolades at last night's Walkley awards for excellence in journalism, but the top prize went to The Australian's Gary Hughes for his personal account of the Black Saturday bushfires.

The Australian newspaper's Gary Hughes has won the nation's most coveted journalism prize, the Gold Walkley.

Hughes, who also won the Print News Report category, was awarded for his personal account of the Black Saturday bushfires, which he wrote just after watching his Kinglake house burn down.

The Walkley Advisory Board paid tribute to Hughes' emotional work, Black Saturday 1 & 2.
   
"For someone to nearly lose their life, their family, everything they own and then file a story like that - that's what print journalism is all about," the board said in a statement.

Hughes also received three Walkley trophies to replace those he lost in the bushfires at a ceremony in Sydney last night.

SBS wins

Dateline won a Walkley in the international journalism category for City of Widows produced by Fouad Hady and Geoff Parish.

SBS also scored in the Television Current Affairs , Feature, Documentary or Special (more than 20 minutes) category for the documentary Forbidden Lie$, by Anna Broinowski and Sally Regan.

ABC journalists Anne Connolly, Sarah Ferguson, Ivan O'Mahoney and Kate Wild won the Best Sports Journalism category for their Four Corners piece, Code of Silence, which explored a series of sex scandals in the NRL.
   
The Australian's Renee Nowytarger won the Nikon-Walkley Press Photographer of the Year, while journalist and author Tony Stephens won the Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism category.

The Best Non-Fiction Book was awarded to Graham Freudenberg for Churchill and Australia, and the Seven Network's Michael McKinnon won the Journalism Leadership award.
 

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