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Monday, October 14, 2013
RMSA has just signed a historic agreement with the Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society of SA (RA&HS) Education Foundation. This three-year agreement provides financial support for a series of joint initiatives.
The RA&HS Education Foundation will support the awarding of a bursary during the 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17 years for the professional development of young journalists who live in regional areas and report for country based newspapers or media outlets. The Young Rural & Regional Journalist Professional Development Award was initiated in the 2012/13 year and this new agreement guarantees that at least five young rural journalists will receive benefit from the initiative.
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013
Veteran RMSA Secretary/Treasurer, Bob Snewin is well known for the massive amount of backroom work he does to keep the Association running. However less well known is his out of hours role as a drummer in the rock band, The Embers.
Formed in 1964, The Embers set the local music scene alight with solid rocking music. Now aged in their 60's, the band members have come to the attention of ABC Radio's "2013 Exhumed Competition".
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Monday, September 23, 2013
RA&HS President, Richard Fewster recently launched the 2014 Young Rural & Regional Journalist Professional Development Award.
The winner will receive a two-day education program designed to expose them to a choice of two-day metropolitan media experiences related to the 2014 Royal Adelaide Show. Entries opened on 1st August 2013 and will close on 30th April 2014, spanning the 2013-2014 SA Country Show season.
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Sunday, September 15, 2013
The 2013 Young Rural & Regional Journalist Professional Development Award has been presented to Yorke Peninsula Country Times journalist, Rhiannon Koch.
An initiative of the Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Education Foundation and Rural Media SA, the award was initiated to foster high professional standards and provide professional development opportunities for young regionally based journalists.
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Sunday, September 08, 2013
South Australian based rural journalists and photographers took out a number of the top Star Prize awards at this year’s International Federation of Agricultural Journalists' Conference.
Presented in Argentina on Wednesday September 4, Star Prizes are the most significant awards in agricultural journalism and this year’s result shows that Australian rural journalists can match it with the best in the world.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Advertiser photographer, Tait Schmaal was recently announced as the national winner of the Production Category in the Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists’ 2013 Star Award competition.
Tait’s winning photograph was of a sheep leaping across a yard in front of policeman, Chief Superintendent Fred Trueman looking for stolen animals at the Dublin Saleyard. The winning photo
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
The 2013 Telstra & Rural Business Support Rural Media Awards were launched at this year’s RMSA Royal Show Breakfast on 12th September.
This year, prizemoney and trophies to the value of $6,000 will be on offer to rural journalists and photographers entering the ten award categories.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
A number of RMSA members featured in the winners list of the 2013 South Australian Media Awards presented during a function at the National Wine Centre in May.
In a clean sweep for radio, ABC’s Nance Haxton was awarded both the “Best Radio Current Affairs or Feature Award” and the prized “Best Radio Broadcaster Award”. As a regular entrant in the Telstra Rural Media Awards, Nance is well known to most RMSA members.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
ABC journalist, Michael Sexton, and The Advertiser photographer, Tait Schmaal, have taken home the major prizes at the 2012 Telstra Rural Media Awards today.
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