‘Jumped up copywriter’ Jane Caro and SBS’ Laura Murphy-Oates dominate Walkley night

Author and journalist Jane Caro, who described herself as a “jumped up copywriter from advertising”, took home the Women in Leadership Award at the Walkley Mid-Year Awards yesterday evening.

Caro, who was up against Fairfax investigative journalist Kate McClymont, Tracey Spicer, the ABC’s Lorna Knowles, Joanne Puccini and SBS Viceland’s Jeannette Francis, took home the leadership award last night, for her focus on “ageing” and the “illegitimacy of women in high office”, which the judges said resonated with a wider audience.

Caro was ‘gobsmacked’