2016 Lowy Institute Media Award finalists announced

10 August 2016

Yesterday the judges of the 2016 Lowy Institute Media Award selected the finalists for this year’s award.

The five finalists for the 2016 Lowy Institute Media Award are:

  • Amanda Hodge, South East Asia Correspondent Jakarta – The Australian
  • Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Michael Bachelard and Daniel Quinlan – Fairfax Media
  • Eric Tlozek, Papua New Guinea Correspondent – ABC
  • Jewel Topsfield, Indonesia correspondent – Fairfax Media
  • Philip Wen, China Correspondent – Fairfax Media

The winner of the 2016 Media Award will be announced at an evening event to be held this coming Thursday, 11 August 2016 and sponsored by IAG.

About the Lowy Institute Media Award:

The Lowy Institute established the Media Award in 2013 to recognise journalists who have deepened and enriched the discussion of global issues in Australia. Previous winners are John Garnaut of The Age (2013), Hayden Cooper of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2014) and Paul Maley of The Australian (2015).

The Award is presented to an Australian journalist, or journalistic team, working in print, broadcast or online media, who has deepened the knowledge or shaped the discussion of international policy issues in Australia. The 2016 winner will receive a $20,000 prize, one of the richest in Australian journalism.

Entries are judged on four criteria: topicality – the importance of the issue or issues to Australia’s engagement with the world; influence – the degree to which the journalist or journalistic team’s work informed or shaped public discussion of international policy; originality – the extent to which the work brought attention to a new international issue or idea, or re-examined an existing issue from a new perspective; and quality – a high standard of writing or broadcast.

The judging panel for the 2016 Lowy Institute Media Award is comprised of journalist Monica Attard, author Anna Funder, former DFAT Secretary Peter Varghese, Lowy Institute Board member Mark Ryan and the Institute's Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove.

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