Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award

Entries for Perkin Award are now open until Friday 10 February 2012.

The Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award is the most coveted prize in Australian journalism. The winner receives $20,000, a plaque and permanent recognition for excellence. The Perkin is independently administered by the Melbourne Press Club, which appoints the judges. The prize money is supplied by The Age. Swinburne University of Technology supports the award. The 2011 award will be presented at the dinner for the Melbourne Press Club’s Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism at Crown Palladium on Friday 23 March 2012.

“Winning the Gold Walkley is always good, but winning the Perkin brings with it a $20,000 prize.” – Media Diary, The Australian, April 8, 2010

The Perkin is open to any Australian journalist or editor/director whose work appears in 2011.