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.
Matt Turner has had extensive photographic experience, initially working freelance with the Stock Journal, The Australian, The Sydney Telegraph & Getty Images before returning to Adelaide in 2003 to join News Corp Australia. Since then he has worked with The Advertiser, SA Weekend Magazine and Nationally, covering a wide and varied range of major and every day events.