The cartoonist John Kudelda is boycotting the Walkley awards this year because they’re sponsored by fossil fuel company AMPOL and chose not to add a category for “best climate reporting” this year.
And in a fantastic followup to this – Ketan Joshi has done a bit of analysis into the stories that the #Walkey awards choose as winners....
Here's the key bit:
"...from what I can tell – using a somewhat clumsy method of keyword searching – the only award granted to a dedicated climate story was handed out in 2008, to a Four Corners episode about the impact of climate change on sea ice. Fifteen years ago.
There are a range of stories, photographs and book awards granted to coverage of climate-intensified disasters, where it’s unclear whether climate change is central or even mentioned – bushfires and floods, in particular, like the photograph above Ampol’s logo above." https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/08/30/the-walkleys-walkout/
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