BULLETIN FINALIST IN PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS
THE Gold Coast Bulletin is a finalist in two categories of the prestigious PANPA Newspaper of the Year Awards.
The Bulletin is in contention for Regional Daily Newspaper of the Year, making the finalist list in a field of papers from across the Southern Hemisphere.
The entry included successul campaigns such as the $500 million upgrade of the M1 and groundbreaking domestic violence reform; the Crime and Corruption Commission probe into the 2016 council elections; the inside story of bikie enforcer Lionel Patea and his killing of former partner Tara Brown; the devastation caused by flooding from extropical Cyclone Debbie; how a city rallied after the Dreamworld tragedy; the police fudging of crime data to improve clearance rates and how victims of sexual assaults were urged not to take action; and better protection of tradies after hundreds faced financial ruin with the collapse of large companies.
Senior photographer Glenn Hampson has been named twice in the running for Regional Portrait Photo of the Year – with his images of two-year-old snake catcher’s son Jensen Harrison and his shots of nude gardener Kelly Anderson.
Winners will be announced at the Newspaper of the Year Awards gala dinner in Sydney on September 6.