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Nomination Forms for the 2010 OPSO Media Awards
2009 OPSO Media Awards Q150 Awards • National Awards • People's Choice Awards Click here to open/download a PDF file listing all of the winners and finalists in the 2009 OPSO Media Awards and 2009 OPSO People’s Choice Media Awards (890Kb). Click here to see the Awards Ceremony photos If you would like to be emailed high-resolution copies (free, of course!) of any of these photos just The Judges The OPSO Media Awards are judged by a combination of members of OPSO who understand older people and who work continually with their issues, journalists and journalists who are also journalism educators. The Awards go to those who, with excellence, best illustrate positive ageing. Phillip Castle worked in print journalism, including two years in Vietnam. He was head of Federal Police Public Affairs before becoming a lecturer in journalism at QUT, where he has taught for the last 11 years. Susan Hetherington is a print journalist with 21 years’ experience working in newspapers in Australia. She has been a journalism educator for the past nine years. Her research area is children and the news, and she is also a radio columnist on children and entertainment issues. Trina McLellan – journalist, sub-editor and editor and educator. She has worked on major newspapers in Victoria and Queensland. Her area of research is trauma and journalism. Roger Patching is Associate Professor of Journalism at Bond University. He spent 11 of his 17 years in daily journalism working for the ABC. He has been teaching journalism for 25 years and co-authored the first book on broadcast journalism in Australia, Now the News in Detail. Patsy McCarthy is currently an Adjunct Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Technology, having completed a 30-year career teaching, with special emphasis on the professions of journalism, advertising and public relations. Educator, actor and business consultant, her book Speak Persuasively was published in the UK and US as well as in Australia. OPSO representatives:
Judging Coordinator: Val French AM who, before retirement, was a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at QUT.
Judges' Comments The judges were impressed by the growth in the number of entries this year, their quality and range of topics covered, and entries from wider afield than in previous years. At a time when the future of the print media is being debated, the number and quality of entries in this section, both print and photography, continues to grow and represents a growing interest in older people, their achievements and the challenges they face. Entries in electronic categories were again of high quality but were dominated by the ABC, perhaps reflecting the perceived audience of commercial outlets, who might well reflect on the ageing population and what this might mean in the future. All entrants are to be congratulated on the high standard of their work which caused we the judges difficulty separating winners from finalists in a number of categories. |
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