Awards

The 2023 Ossie Award winners, showcasing Australia’s best student journalism, were announced at 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)

A very strong portfolio of work alongside a 6.75 Grade Point Average for her studies. Grace Nakamura has presented a community radio program, done an exch

The winner of Democracy’s Watchdog’s 2023 award for investigative journalism is Jonathan Weitz-Freeman from the University of Technology Sydney. Jonathan, who is doing a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism), will receive $1000 and a trophy.

Congratulations Jonathan and to the finalists who will be sent or presented with highly commended certificates.

It was a difficult choice this year because each of the finalist stories revealed information that was in the public interest.

The judges espe

The Greek Herald journalist and University of Technology Sydney student, Pamela Rontziokos, has won a Jerra Ossie Award for a recent article in The Greek Herald which investigated the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia’s (GOAA) ‘Certificate of death and funeral service.’

The exposé found families were expected to pay $250 for a funeral certificate that was not officially recognised in Australia nor Greece. The cost of the certificate was also found to be five times the amount compared to a