Former AFR editor heading ANZ Blue Note wins Citi Journalism Award

The brains behind one of Australia’s biggest branded content plays to date, Andrew Cornell, has won a Citi Journalism Award in the economy category.

Cornell, a former associate editor of the Australian Financial Review who launched ANZ Blue Notes earlier this month, was commended for his series of articles on agriculture and the role of foreign investment published in the AFR in February and October last year.

In his new role for ANZ he now leads its publishing arm providing news, analysis and video under the ANZ brand,

ABC economics correspondent Stephen Long won the top prize of the night, the Citi Journalism Award for Excellence as well as the broadcast category for the March 2013 show ‘A betrayal of Trust’ exposing a Ponzi scheme marketed to international investors. Long will join winners of the international awards scheme from around the world for a for a US study tour hosted by the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York next month.