AFR sweeps the Kennedy Awards for PwC tax leaks
Financial Review journalists Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros have won five awards at the NRMA Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism including Journalist of the Year for their reporting on the PwC tax leaks scandal.
The pair also won Outstanding Finance Reporting, Outstanding Feature Writing, Investigative Reporting and Scoop of the Year.
“They not only broke the story, they owned the story,” the judges said.
The PwC story broke in January when Chenoweth reported that consulting giant PwC had leaked confidential government information; caught fire in May with the release of hundreds of pages if internal emails and resulted, last week, in the biggest crackdown on misconduct by tax advisers in Australian history.
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age took home six awards. Kate Geraghty won Outstanding Portrait Photography for her portrait of Ukrainian soldier Oleh Nazarov; Alexandra Smith, Tom Rabe and Jordan Baker won Outstanding Political Reporting; Cathy Wilcox won Outstanding Cartoon; Carrie Fellner, Katrina McGowan, Mat Cornwall and Rhett Wyman won the Indigenous Affairs Reporting award for Paradise Poisoned; Nick McKenzie, Amelia Ballinger and Joel Tozer won Outstanding Television Current Affairs for Trafficked; and Eryk Bagshaw and Nat Clancy won Outstanding Foreign Correspondent.
Nine, the owner of the Financial Review, also collected numerous awards across various categories including Ben Fordham and James Willis for radio journalism; former Nine political editor Laurie Oakes won the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement award while Nine news in Queensland won Outstanding Podcast for Hannah’s Story.
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