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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

2017 Rural Media Award Winners Announced (Dec 2017)

From record numbers of outstanding entries, News Corp’s Rural Editor at The Advertiser, Belinda Willis and News Corp photographer Matt Turner have taken home the major prizes at the 2017 Telstra & Rural Business Support Rural Media Awards.

Belinda Willis is currently The Advertiser Newspaper’s Rural Editor, overseeing the coverage of issues affecting rural businesses and communities across the state. Her journalistic career spans more than 20 years and includes stints with the BBC, Discovery Networks and the North West Evening Mail in England, the former Times Tribune newspaper in California and with a former Australian Federal Environment Minister. ...

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Sunday, September 10, 2017

Entries now open for 2017 Rural Media Awards (Sept 2017)

Entries are now open for RMSA's 2017 Telstra & Rural Business Support Rural Media Awards for rural journalists and photographers.

These prestigious annual awards carry significant peer recognition and in 2017, offer a total of $7,500 in prize money plus trophies. Individual awards will be given to the best journalists in print, radio, television and online media and regional print and photojournalism awards with significant prize money is being offered for each category. Winners of the four specialist awards will then compete for the overall 2017 Telstra & RBS Rural Journalist of the Year Award, carrying an additional $1,000 in prize money. ...

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Saturday, August 05, 2017

Leigh Radford - Icon of Rural Media moves on (August 2017)

After a 30 year career working for ABC Rural, Adelaide based National Head of Rural & Regional programs, Leigh Radford has taken up the opportunity to further his interests outside of the national broadcaster.

Recognised as one of ABC Rural’s most awarded broadcasters, Leigh was the inaugural Telstra South Australian Rural Journalist of the Year in 1996 and has been honoured with the Dalgety Award for Excellence in Rural Journalism as well as various Landcare Awards. ...

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Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Caroline Winter stars at SA Media Awards (June 2017)

Former ABC SA Country Hour Executive Producer and Presenter, Caroline Winter recently took out the ‘Best Radio Broadcaster’ and ‘Best Radio News/Current Affairs/Feature’ award at the SA Media Awards

In announcing Caroline as South Australia’s ‘Best Radio Broadcaster’, the judging panel recognised her as being a genuine storyteller. It emphasised that with her naturally engaging style and crafty use of the medium, Caroline produced compelling stories that humanised the issues of the day. ...

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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

RMSA donation to Nepal Appeal brings results (April 2017)

A financial donation by Rural Media South Australia to the Nepal Earthquake Relief Appeal in 2015 has assisted in the process of resurrecting that country’s agricultural sector.

RMSA’s contribution was made as part of an initiative developed by the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists and facilitated in this country by the Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists. Initial results of the donation included a school agricultural training centre, providing potential to create a long-term legacy for the rural sector of Nepal. ...

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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Stock Journal’s Jacqui Bateman – World’s Best Rural Photograph (April 2017)

The International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) has named Stock Journal photographer, Jacqui Bateman as having taken the world’s best rural photograph.

Announced at the recent lFAJ 2017 Congress in Pretoria, South Africa, Jacqui’s winning photograph was of shearer, Daniel Telfer taken during shearing on Jacqui’s own Limestone Coast property at Furner in the state’s South East. It featured a fully naked Daniel removing the wool off a sheep in a stance similar to that of PETA’s earlier anti-shearing publicity shot of an unclothed female model posing with a faux sheep covered in artificial red dye to simulate shearing cuts. ...

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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Changing of the Rural Guard at the Advertiser (March 2017)

Following a forty year career in writing about the Australian agricultural sector, including 27 years at News Corporation, The Advertiser’s Rural Editor Nigel Austin decided late last year that it was time to leave behind the world of daily newspaper journalism.

His new direction in life is now the pursuit of a long-held dream to focus full-time on continuing his authorship of books focused on country Australia. ...

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Friday, February 10, 2017

SA Rural Journalist named Best Rural Broadcast Journalist in Australia (Feb 2017)

2016 SA Rural Journalist of the Year, Cassandra Steeth of ABC Rural Radio at Mount Gambier has been named by the Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists as the Best Rural Broadcast Journalist in Australia.

In addition to competing against other radio entries from throughout Australia, Cassandra’s story had to compete against winning entries from the television and online awards. ...

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Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Deanna Lush awarded a Churchill Fellowship (Feb 2017)

Former editor of the Stock Journal and current principal of agricultural communications firm, AgCommunicators, Deanna Lush has just been awarded a Churchill Fellowship.

Deanna’s Fellowship will permit her to investigate communication, education and engagement methods to improve understanding of agriculture across the community. It will take her to Canada, USA and UK. Deanna Lush in her role as Rural Photography Award Judging Panel Chair, providing comments at the 2016 Awards ...

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