For the second year running, a student journalist from the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism program has won top honours in the Melbourne Press Club Quill awards.
Jess Malcolm was named as the MPC’s 2020 Student of the Year at the gala Quills dinner on Friday, 26 March. She was recognised for a story supported by a Walkley Foundation grant, edited by The Citizen and co-published with Guardian Australia: Meet the bee brokers: ‘You never stop learning about bees, they’re just incredible’.
Jess, who graduated at the end of 2020, is now a cadet employed by The Australian in its Sydney newsroom. She also won honours in December as the Journalism Educators and Researchers Association of Australia (JERAA) 2020 Student of the Year.
Also nominated in the same category was current Master of Journalism candidate Vanessa Di Natale for a story published in The Mandarin: Legal representation for people with disabilities is shockingly low when appealing NDIS decisions.
Last year’s MPC Student of the Year was won by University of Melbourne student Liam Pettersen, now an editor at The Conversation.
Alumni and 2019 graduate cadet on The Citizen, Charlotte Grieve, now with The Age, was Highly Commended for the Quill Recognising Excellence in Indigenous Affairs Reporting: Gomeroi Heritage.
And Centre for Advancing Journalism lecturer and data journalism specialist Craig Butt, of The Age, was part of the Age Online team awarded the Quill Award for Coverage of an Issue or Event.
A full list of the 2020 Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards winners can be found here.
Melbourne Press Club Quills honors: Graduates Charlotte Grieve, now with The Age, Jess Malcolm, now with The Australian, and current student Vanessa Di Natale.
