Remembering Ean Higgins. Please take a moment to read some beautiful words for a much-loved reporter, colleague, and friend.
Kennedy Foundation
Non-profit Organizations
Sydney, NSW 182 followers
Excellence in Journalism
About us
The Kennedy Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to excellence in Australian journalism. It does so via its annual national media awards, a scholarship and mentoring program for young aspiring journalists and a charitable wing that supports media workers and their families in hardship. The Foundation became a registered charity in 2014. The Foundation also runs a media club for events, discussions and debate on crucial media issues featuring our very best journalists and media workers. We are dedicated to supporting free and independent media that supports the public interest, underpins a healthy democracy and acts with the highest ethical principles. We support diversity in all its forms and especially seek to assist young aspiring journalists to achieve their aspirations and goals. We honour the professions’ past in a spirit of celebration, compassion and collegiality and seek to be an influential voice in the future of Australia’s media industry. The Kennedy Awards were born in 2013 and have quickly gone from strength to strength - attracting more than 600 entries a year from the finest journalists in Australia vying to win some of the 34 different award categories. A decade later the Kennedys have become the Australian media's night of nights - celebrated for their inclusiveness, independence, and respect for the past and for fostering the next generation of the nation's finest journalists. Our success is not only built upon, but is reflected by, the sponsors that have supported us.
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 2-10 employees
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- Sydney, NSW
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- Nonprofit
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Sydney, NSW 2000, AU
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It was a chilly night in our southern capital city, but Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre was buzzing with a terrific panel and an enthusiastic audience. The subject of our Kennedy Foundation’s Media Club event in partnership with Telum Media was , 'Investigative Journalism: The Obstacles, Its Importance, Its Future'. There is little argument about the importance of good investigative journalism to our polity and our membership of it as citizens. Investigative journalism has never been easy but the panel spoke at length as to how it was getting increasingly difficult to perform, especially when it came to the myriad of legal obstacles in its way and the rapid decline of transparency in the conduct of corporate and government entities. Quality investigative journalism is a rigorous undertaking. Working off a lead or hunch, investigative journalists invest countless hours diving into painstaking original research: interviewing sources, verifying facts, and carefully scrutinising public records and other documents to uncover the full story. The panel spoke about the trials and tribulations of its exhaustive pursuit, separating facts from fiction, the dead ends and dry gulches, the highs and lows and the seemingly unimportant sliver of information that brings a house down. But as audience and panel alike attested the financial pressures confronting mainstream media, the wild west of digital disruption, the increasing lack of transparency in our civic world and that ass of law are strangling the life out of this key journalistic vehicle. A big thank you to Nick McKenzie and Ben Butler for sharing their insights and experiences, and for Sharnelle Vella for hosting and sharing her perspectives and expertise! And a big thank you Telum Media's own Aurelie Franc for orchestrating such a fabulous event. There will be more Kennedy Media Club events coming to a place near you; we’ll keep you posted.
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