Sharri Markson wins Kennedy Journalist of the Year prize
The Daily Telegraph’s Sharri Markson has won the 2018 Kennedy Prize for Journalist of the Year for her coverage of the political scandal around former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’s affair with a staffer and the subsequent cover up.
Markson is the first News Corp journalist to take out the $25,000 prize established in 2011 to commemorate the late Sydney crime reporter, Les Kennedy.
Sharri Markson wins 2018 Journalist of the Year prize at the Kennedy Awards. Photo: Salty Dingo
In awarding the prize to Markson, the Kennedy Foundation judges wrote: “She has repeatedly set the national news agenda and shaken the political establishment with a series of big exclusives using sheer determination and careful cultivation of contacts to break from the pack.
So Markson follows twitter, ignores True Crime News Weekly and Independent Australia and ‘wins’ an award for fearless journalism?
What an absolute joke Australian journalism is
May I respectfully ask why a journalist can win an award and $25,000 for ‘breaking’ a story which had been published on two independent media sites months earlier and which was common knowledge?
hahahahahaha. ‘Fearless’ hahahahahahaaha. Her bosses told her to spike it until after the byelection, and then bring it out for the sweaty clickbait tittilation later. Just to show they could have their cake, and make it twist in the wind too, Well done Rupert and Sharri, faithful servants of transparency and democracy that you are, and not at all liars and propagandists for the greater good of the Rupertocracy.
Except Sharri didn’t break the story about the Barnaby Joyce affair: that was done by True Crime Weekly in October 2017, then by Dave Donovan of Independent Australia in November 2017. Unlike everyone else in the media, including Sharri, they reported on his affair before the New England by-election
What a Crock!
These guys broke the story loooong before.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/exclusive-barnaby-joyce-peeling-back-the-rumours,10942
Sharri and the entire News Corp empire tried their best to bury it until they no longer could.
Serkan Ozturk of true crime weekly broke this story, which was taken up by Independent Australia. Sharri, like the rest of the media covered this up until after the New England by election. Frauds.
I read about the Joyce affair on Independent Australia months and months before Sharri published it. Seems the award has gone to the wrong journalist.
I guess it helps when the judging panel is stacked to the gunnels with News Corp soldiers, including Miranda Devine herself. I think it’s important when reporting ‘awards’ to look at how they are awarded and by who. This back slapping from journo mates is how the main stream media ended up such a farce in the first place.
So who made up the judging panel for the Journalist of the Year Award, in particular, and the other Awards?
What a joke
Hear Hear
Can we order a recount on votes for this as something is very wrong here?
This was out ages before Markson got anywhere near it – https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/exclusive-barnaby-joyce-peeling-back-the-rumours,10942
The date on that piece is a full month after Sharri’s story
Farcical
Congratulations Sharee, well deserved.
Forget the naysayers above, your thorough and well balanced pieces are why you won the award.
Shari Markson’s story was published in the Daily Telegraph 7 February 2018, under the title “Bundle of Joyce”.
Makes a laughing stock of the Kennedy Awards, which seem to simply be a Murdoch-SMH love-in. Fortunately, we have the Walkleys.
Self admiration awards to corporate journalists! may be she could try some real journalism like Eva Bartlet and Vanessa Beeley!
NOT well deserved at all. Nothing balanced by her. She held the story off until after the by-election,and as mentioned by others it was revealed previously by two independent on-line news outlets.
Don’t let facts get in the way,of lies.
This awarding was a fraud.
No surprise when the judging panel is stacked is news limited stooges.