Finalists announced for 2022 Lowy Institute Media Award

27 October 2022

The Lowy Institute is pleased to announce the shortlisted finalists for the 2022 Lowy Institute Media Award. The award recognises excellence in coverage of international affairs by Australian journalists and media outlets.

"It has been a remarkable twelve months in international affairs, and this is reflected in the entries considered by the judges this year,” said Dr Michael Fullilove, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute.

On this year’s judging panel, Dr Fullilove was joined by Walkley Award-winning senior journalist Pamela Williams, formerly of The Australian Financial Review and The Australian; journalist and former ABC broadcaster Eleanor Hall; and Lowy Institute Board member Mark Ryan.

The finalists are:

  • Kate Geraghty and Anthony Galloway from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age for The Battleground, a compelling series of photojournalism and first-hand reporting from Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion. 
     
  • Yalda Hakim, Gus Palmer, Matthew Carney and Deborah Richards for Return of the Taliban, a co-production between ABC-TV’s Foreign Correspondent and BBC-TV’s Our World. Featuring interviews conducted in the weeks ahead of the fall of Kabul, the program documents the coming return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan. 
     
  • Kate Lyons, Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Jessica Bineth, Laura Brierley-Newton and John Tjhia for the podcast series An Impossible Choice, produced for Guardian Australia’s Pacific Project. It features the voices of Pacific Islanders whose lives and livelihoods are directly threatened by climate change.
     
  • Kirsty Needham of Reuters News for a series of news-breaking articles about security and diplomacy in the Pacific Islands region.
     
  • Hans van Leeuwen from The Australian Financial Review for a series of articles reporting on and analysing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Lowy Institute Media Award has been presented each year since 2013 to recognise excellence in coverage of international affairs by Australian journalists and media outlets.

The winner of the 2022 Lowy Institute Media Award will be announced on Wednesday 16 November. In addition to the award and a distinctive trophy by Dinosaur Designs, the winner receives a prize of AU$20,000.

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