AAP photojournalist Lukas Coch won the Walkley for best news photograph for his photo of Prime Minister Julia Gillard being rushed to her car during the tent embassy protests. The photo was used around the world. Source: AAP
JOURNALIST Steve Pennells has won the industry's top award, the gold Walkley, for news and feature articles in The West Australian newspaper.
Pennells also won two other Walkleys.
He won best scoop of the year for his story "Battle for billions" about the legal battles between Gina Rinehart and her children.
Pennells also won the social equity journalism award, for the third time, for his feature "The untold story of the asylum boat tragedy".
After accepting the gold Walkley award, Mr Pennells told the crowd he was in awe of the people he was competing against for the award.
"I feel a bit like Steven Bradbury coming up here," he said, referring to the Australian who won gold in 1000m short-track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics after all his opponents were involved in a last corner pile-up.
A humble Mr Pennells paid tribute to his colleagues at the West Australian newspaper and his partner for their patience and support.
"A good journalist is the sum of the people he's been around," he said.
Concluding his acceptance speech, Mr Pennells acknowledged the person he said had helped him win the award, world's richest woman Gina Rinehart.
"Thanks Gina."
The Walkley awards ceremony was held at Parliament House in Canberra, with more than 600 journalists, media personnel and sponsors in attendance.
AAP photojournalist Lukas Coch won the Walkley for best news photograph for his photo of Prime Minister Julia Gillard being rushed to her car during the tent embassy protests. The photo was used around the world.
For their story "Exposed: Obeid's secret harbour deal" in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Linton Besser and Kate McClymont won the prize for investigative journalism.
The story told how former NSW MP Eddie Obied controlled publicly owned properties by hiding his interests behind a front company and did not inform the NSW parliament of the lucrative deal for nine years.
The ABC's recently retired foreign editor Peter Cave, a five-time Walkley winner, received an award for his outstanding contribution to journalism.
The ABC's Leigh Sales won the award for broadcast and online interviewing for her interviews with Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and Christine Milne.
For his book The Australia Moment, politics guru George Megalogenis won the Walkley for long form journalism.
Matthew Carney and Thom Cookes won the Walkley for international journalism for their Four Corners program In their Sights, which exposed the Western military's campaign to kill enemy commanders in Afghanistan.
The award for best digital journalism went to Stuart Washington, Tom Allard, Conrad Walters and a University of Technology Sydney team for their Sydney Morning Herald story "Sky's the limit on political gifts".
The Walkley for journalism leadership was won by The Border Mail, a newspaper serving the Albury-Wodonga area, for their coverage of a young local girl's suicide.
And in a one-man microcosm of the development of newspapers into the online world, Stev e Grice, multimedia designer and illustrator with News Limited's national online network ,won the Artwork category for his stunning Titanic Centenary newspaper images and an online interactive published across the country.
See Steve Grice's Titanic interactive here
He is based in Adelaide and News Limited state editorial director for SA Melvin Mansell said he had long been one of the company's most innovative artists.
"He has seamlessly developed this excellence from newspaper design into the digital realm," Mr Mansell said.
"This Walkley is just reward for his outstanding creativity and commitment."
Grice received his award at the 57th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism Presentation Gala Dinner at Parliament House in Canberra.
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