Past Winners
More than 60 couples fleeced in Willows wedding wipeout
Benjamin Ansell, University of Melbourne
Best text-based story by an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Student – 750 words or less ($200)
The heart of the matter
Tallulah Thompson, University of Technology Sydney
Best text-based story by an Undergraduate Student – over 750 words ($200)
Chantilly Lacey: Killer ex-WAG now $7m-a-year fashion queen
Emily Selleck, Bond University
Best text-based story by an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Student – 750 words or less ($200)
Turning over a new leaf
Sarah Makse, Curtin University
Best text-based story by an Undergraduate Student – over 750 words ($200)
Eight Years On: The Syrian war and its child refugees
Angus Smith, Monash University
Best text-based story by a Postgraduate Student - over 750 words ($200)
Memorial service for slain teenage Liep Gony
Andrea Thiis-Evensen, Monash University
Best audio story by an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Student – 2 minutes or less ($200)
‘Perfection’ is more than skin deep: Being brown, being beautiful
Dilpreet Kaur, University of Melbourne
Best audio story by an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Student – over 2 minutes ($200)
My family doesn’t have many secrets
Emily Bradfield, Bond University
Best audio story by an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Student – over 2 minutes ($200)
Firefighters climb hard for charity
Andrea Thiis-Evensen and Ezra Holt, Monash University
Best video story by an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Student – 2 minutes or less ($200)
Rising from Mother’s Ruin
Sinead Fogarty, Macleay College
Best video story by an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Student – over 2 minutes ($200)
World Science Festival in Brisbane
Naveen Razik, Queensland University of Technology
Best video story by an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Student – over 2 minutes ($200)
Indigenous suicide in custody: ‘How have lives just slipped away?
Jack Banister, University of Melbourne
John Newfong Prize for Reporting on Indigenous Affairs ($200)
All acknowledgement and no action for Indigenous people
Massilia Aili, University of Technology Sydney
John Newfong Prize for Reporting on Indigenous Affairs ($200)
Previous winners of the Ossie Awards, dating back to 2008
The full list of previous winners of the Ossie Awards can be found here.
Capel-Stanley wins Journalism Student of the Year
The 2019 Ossie Award winners, showcasing Australia’s best student journalism, have been announced during the annual dinner of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia conference in Sydney. Links to the stories and judges’ comments are below, where publicly available. The Australian Press Council Prize for Journalism Student of the Year ($750 prize) Winner […]