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John Curtin Prize for Journalism: Winner & Shortlist 2009
Judges: Michael Gawenda (convenor), Jill Singer and Leigh Sales
Winner
The winner of the 2009 John Curtin Prize for Journalism is:
- 'The Penalty is Death: Inside Bali’s Kerobokan Prison'
Luke Davies (The Monthly)
Shortlist
| The Guards' StoryPeter Cronau and Quentin McDermott
(Four Corners, ABC Television)
This was dramatic and disturbing journalism. The footage that the Four Corners team managed to obtain revealed what life was like for both the guards and the asylum seekers in the Howard Government's detention centres. Some of the footage was almost unbearable to watch and the interviews with former guards were handled with sensitivity and clarity of purpose. This was television current affairs of a very high standard. |
| The Penalty is Death: Inside Bali’s Kerobokan Prison - WINNERLuke Davies
(The Monthly)
This is an example of outstanding magazine journalism. Brilliantly researched, this story of the two young Australian men facing death in a Bali prison for drug crimes, and their families, is beautifully written and haunting in its effect on the reader. There is empathy for these young men living each day with the threat of death hanging over them and there is sorrow and pity for their families, but it is, at the same time, tough minded and unsentimental and all the more affecting for that. |
| A Week in KinglakeMichael Vincent
(ABC Radio)
Michael Vincent's reports on the Victorian bushfires, produced under tremendous deadline pressure, are a great example of outstanding news reporting under the most trying and emotionally taxing circumstances. His reports, often on air three or more times a day, were clear, unsensational, informative and suffused with an underlying humanity. | |
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