Mail scoops two big prizes at New Zealand media awards Video
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Stuff’s other big winners
Masterful podcasts and videos, brilliantly edited newspapers, muscular reporting, and heartbreaking photos earned Stuff an impressive 20 prizes at the Voyager Media Awards.
At last night’s annual showcase of New Zealand’s best journalism, the Waikato Times was crowned Newspaper of the Year (up to 30,000 circulation) for the third year in a row. Judges praised its campaign to teach New Zealand history in schools, coverage of the Whakaari/White Island eruption, and scoops on the NZ First Foundation.
‘‘The Waikato Times showed how local papers can not just reflect what’s happening in the community around them but work to make that community better.’’
The Sunday-Star Times claimed back-to-back wins as Weekly Newspaper of the Year. Judges described it as ‘‘a bright, engaging and compelling paper that gives readers something fresh and different: a brilliantly edited assemblage of fresh news, arresting opinion, and solid analysis.’’
Stuff scooped both podcast categories, with Erebus podcast White Silence – conceived by
and co-produced with RNZ – named Best Narrative/ Serial Podcast and mental health series, Out Of My Mind, the joint winner of Best Episodic/Recurrent Podcast.
The judges said the masterful White Silence was ‘‘a compelling new take on New Zealand’s worst peacetime disaster’’, while Out Of My Mind was ‘‘powerful and incredibly engaging, with the trickiest of subject matter.’’
The Press
Sunday
Reporting and feature writing
Times,
Dana
Waikato
Observer,
Australia
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Product Of
also won the Crime and Justice category, with ‘‘investigative clout, initiative, impact, beautiful writing and presentation’’ making him a standout in an ‘‘extraordinarily strong’’ field.
National correspondent
won the Feature Writing (Social Issues) category. ‘‘Kerr was a standout with an evocative, yet confronting portrait of Horeke, a community living in poverty that few New Zealanders imagine – supported by a moving account of the measles outbreak in Samoa,’’ the judges wrote.
was a ‘‘clear winner’’ in the Best Feature Writer (Junior) category. ‘‘All three of his entries were a master class in storytelling,’’ the judges said.
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