Walkley list revealed
The shortlist has been revealed for this year’s Walkley Awards. Cameron Stewart of the Australian’s revelations of an alleged terror plot which outraged the Victorian police at the time is among those shortlisted. Work on the Victorian bushfires is also strongly represented.
The shortlist:
Print News Report
Tim Douglas HAS to win best headline: “Ludwig bans vote haven” is possibly one of the all-time great.
I agree. Tim has the best pack nominated, but Paul Cully’s “From second fiddle to fecund Siddle” is also great.
Sad to see the Telegraph’s “Grief Vindaloo” (about the family who lost their Indian restaurant in Surry Hills due to a structural crack, and who had no insurance) didn’t get nominated though.
Yes, Tim has my vote.
There was a story in The Age earlier in the year about a serial offender who was exposing himself at a dance class.
The headline was: “Flashdance: What a Felon”.
Not bad.
I’m still proud of the one I wrote about some (now forgotten) coup for Visy, the packaging company:
“Visy: veni, vidi, vici”
Sadly, the fact the Latin tenses is off annoys the crap out of me but I think that’s an issue I (and my therapist) need to work on.
Go, TD! Was a finalist last year and should have won then. Worked with him and he’s a genuinely brilliant wit. Should be an ad campaign manager earning millions!
Truely extraordinary that two of the three scoops of the year – Maley’s story on Grech and Stewart’s on the terror cell – were in the same paper in the same day.