Walkleys 2017 – journalism evolves towards rich and strange

How does investigative journalism and excellent reporting adapt to digital times? Here are some hints from The Walkleys.
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Image: frame from K’Gari, from SBS online. 

It is easy to turn the story of contemporary journalism into a disaster. Massive job losses in print, cuts to national broadcasters, the shrivelled advertising budgets… 

But there is another story, which we barely touch on, which surfaces each year when the Walkley nominations come out. Journalism itself is happily migrating to new media, keeping its standards and finding a trickle of money, mostly through institutional support. 

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