Walkley Foundation announces mid-year winners, led by Young Journalist of the Year Oliver Gordon
The mid-year Walkley winners have been announced, led by the ABC’s Oliver Gordon, who was named Young Australian Journalist of the Year for his Background Briefing story ‘The Black & White Hotel: Inside Australia’s Segregated Hotel Rooms’, which investigated racial profiling at an Alice Springs hotel.
Gordon also won in the long-form category for the story, and will now travel to the USA for two weeks’ work experience at Buzzfeed, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Twitter, and Quartz.
The judging board, represented by Lenore Taylor, Claire Harvey, Stella Lauri, and Heidi Murphy, said Gordon’s entry was a standout.
