The Walkley Award for Journalism Leadership is an Australian award that recognises outstanding acts of courage and bravery in the practice of journalism, in the prestigious Walkley Awards series. [1] The inaugural award, for Excellence in News Leadership, was made in 1997. It became the award for Excellence in Journalism Leadership in 1998.
In 2017 the Walkley Foundation announced that due to a reorganisation of categories, the Journalism Leadership award would no longer be given out. [2]
| List of Walkley Award winners for Journalism Leadership | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Recipient(s) | Program / Title | Media outlet / Publisher | Notes |
| 1997 | Stephen Rice | Sunday | Nine Network | |
| 1998 | Laurie Oakes | Nine Network | ||
| 1999 | Brian Toohey | |||
| 2000 | Mike Steketee | The Australian | ||
| 2001 | Paul Kelly | The Australian | ||
| 2002 | Peter Meakin | Nine Network | ||
| 2003 | Paul McGeough | Fairfax Media | ||
| 2004 | Les Carlyon | |||
| 2005 | Deborah Fleming | Australian Story | ABC TV | |
| 2006 | Michelle Grattan | The Age ; Radio National Breakfast | Fairfax Media; ABC | |
| 2007 | Eric Beecher | Private Media | ||
| 2008 | no award | |||
| 2009 | John Hartigan | News Limited | ||
| 2010 | Kerry O'Brien | The 7:30 Report | ABC TV | |
| 2011 | Kylie Holland | Freelance journalist | ||
| 2012 | The Border Mail | |||
| 2013 | Gerard Ryle | |||
| 2014 | Bob Cronin | The West Australian | Seven West Media | |
| 2015 | Debi Marshall | |||
| 2016 | Rebecca Wilson | awarded posthumously [3] | ||