Herald Sun prevails at Gold Quill Awards
By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Tuesday, 19th March 2019 at 11:41amThe Herald Sun garnered a great deal of recognition at the Melbourne Press Club’s 2018 Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism.
At the top of the list, Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon (pictured) were accorded the Gold Quill and the Grant Hattam Quill for Investigative Journalism, plus a Coverage of an Issue or Event Quill with Chris Tinkler over their coverage of the Lawyer X scandal. Dowsley also won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award for his five years’ pursuit of Lawyer X plus additional material on the Silk-Miller police killings.
The Herald Sun/Sunday Herald Sun staff netted the Breaking News Coverage Quill for covering the Bourke St incident. Andrea Hamblin won News Report in Writing for a story on magistrate Richard Pithouse and h...
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