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The John Curtin Prize for Journalism: Winner 2006
This year's joint winners are Gideon Haigh, for 'Information Idol: How Google is Making us Stupid' in The Monthly, and Chloe Hooper, for 'The Tall Man' in The Monthly.
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We all know about googling, but how much do we know about the way Google is 'infiltrating and colonising' the English language? In a richly researched and highly predictive piece, Gideon Haigh analyses the impact of the Google phenomenon on the way we use and comprehend language. 'To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail; to the man with Google, everything looks like information.' |
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An exceptionally well-written piece of journalism that lays bare the disturbing circumstances surrounding the death of an Aboriginal man in a police station on Palm Island. Chloe Hooper attended the inquest on the island over a number of weeks and vividly conveys the differing perspectives and conflicting loyalties that underpin the varying accounts of the witnesses. The quality of her writing reveals the deeply dysfunctional nature of the Palm Island community in which this tragedy occurred. | |
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