Latika Bourke named young journalist of the year

Kevin Rudd may have questioned her dress sense, but Fairfax Radio’s Latika Bourke has been named the 2010 Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year.  

She won the award for her coverage of the Liberal leadership crisis that saw Tony Abbott topple Malcolm Turnbull.

The Walkley Advisory Board said that her “pioneering” use of Twitter as a journalism tool was another factor in her winning the accolade.

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