The following is a list of finalists for the 2018 Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism. The Student Journalist of the Year and Young Journalist of the Year finalist lists are also presented.
Finalists are listed alphabetically by surname.
Please note that links to stories may not comprise the full entry submitted for consideration.
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ARTWORK
Matthew Absalom-Wong, The Age, Wrong Skin
Matt Davidson, The Sunday Age, Standing in the Way of Control
Mark Stehle, Jamie Brown & Richard Lama, The Age, Into the Deep: Thai Cave Rescue
Mark Stehle, Soren Frederiksen, & Trisnadi Kurniawan, The Age, Melbourne's Traffic Flow Map - The Peak Hour Project
BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE
3AW Drive Team, Bourke Street Terror Attack
Katherine Firkin, Network Ten, Terror on Bourke Street
Herald Sun/Sunday Herald Sun Team, Terror on Bourke Street
Neary Ty, Nine Network, Terror Raids
BUSINESS FEATURE
Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar, The Age, Are We All Prepared to Pay the Price for Proper Wages?
David Stringer, Kit Chellel & Franz Wild, Bloomberg Businessweek, When Rio Tinto Met China's Iron Hand
David Swan, The Weekend Australian magazine, The Plotter, the Tech Titan, the Wrestler and the Lawsuit
Nick Toscano, The Age, Poking Around For a New Spin
BUSINESS NEWS
Sarah Danckert, The Age, ANZ's #Metoo Scandal: Tell Us About Your Rape
Adele Ferguson, Lesley Robinson, Nassim Khadem & Lucy Carter, The Age/ABC Four Corners, Mongrel Bunch of Bastards
Pat McGrath, Jeremy Story Carter & Clare Blumer, ABC News, Healthengine Scandal
Ben Schneiders & Royce Millar, The Sunday Age, Sour Dough: Australia's High-End Restaurant Scandal
CARTOON
John Ditchburn, The Courier, Ballarat, The Media's View of a Police Line-Up
Matt Golding, The Age, Stab ... Stability
Jim Pavlidis, The Age, Bank Fees in Perpetuity
COVERAGE OF AN ISSUE OR EVENT
Melissa Cunningham & Tammy Mills, The Age, A Child, A Bride: The Hidden Story in an Unexplained Tragedy
Anthony Dowsley, Patrick Carlyon & Chris Tinkler, Herald Sun, Lawyer X
Chris Gillett, ABC 7.30, The Big Dry
Miki Perkins & Clay Lucas, The Age, The Downfall of Robert Doyle
FEATURES PHOTOGRAPH
David Caird, Herald Sun, Ho, Ho, Hi
Jason Edwards, Herald Sun, Thundering Hooves
Justin McManus, The Sunday Age, The Last Swaggie
FEATURE WRITING
Jo Chandler, The Monthly, PNG’s Resource Curse
Jane Cowan, ABC News, From Dusk to Dawn: A Night in The Life of a Roo Shooter
Melissa Fyfe, Good Weekend magazine, Get Cliterate
Margaret Simons, Inside Story, Looking for Trouble
THE GRANT HATTAM QUILL FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Rachael Brown, ABC, Trace
Anthony Dowsley & Patrick Carlyon, Herald Sun, Lawyer X – Truth at last
Lisa Martin, Guardian Australia, Au Pair Affair
Nick McKenzie & Chris Masters, The Age, Special Forces War Crimes Exposé
INNOVATION IN JOURNALISM
Richard Baker, Rachael Dexter, Greg Muller & Tim Young, The Age, Wrong Skin
Calla Wahlquist, Lorena Allam, Jack Banister & Nick Evershed, Guardian Australia, Deaths Inside
Tom Whitty, Waleed Aly & Kate Goulopoulos, Network Ten The Project, Speak, Even if Your Voice Shakes
THE KEITH DUNSTAN QUILL FOR COMMENTARY
Waleed Aly, The Age
Barrie Cassidy, ABC Insiders Extra
John Silvester, The Age
Tony Wright, The Age
NEWS PHOTOGRAPH
Alex Coppel, Herald Sun, Saving Nima & Dawa
Jason Edwards, Herald Sun, Reclaim Princes Park Vigil
Alex Ellinghausen, The Age, Julia Banks Defects
Alex Ellinghausen, The Age, National Apology
NEWS REPORT IN WRITING
Anthony Dowsley, Herald Sun, The Roberts Conviction
Andrea Hamblin, Herald Sun, Victim-Blaming Magistrate in Dock
Tammy Mills, The Age, Police Breath Test Scandal
Farrah Tomazin, The Age, The Enduring Impact of Australia’s Biggest Education Rort
PODCASTING
Richard Baker, Rachael Dexter, Greg Muller & Tim Young, The Age, Wrong Skin
Eric George, Kylie Stevenson & Caroline Graham, The Australian, Lost in Larrimah
Aaron Langmaid, Herald Sun, The Hunt for AE1
Harrison Tippet & Andrew Piva, Geelong Advertiser, The Unknown: The disappearance of Fred Valentich
THE RACV TRANSPORT QUILL
Craig Butt, Timna Jacks & Soren Frederiksen, The Age, Peak Hour Project
Timna Jacks & Rachael Dexter, The Age, Melbourne's Worst Commutes - Four Hours a Day Across Town
Clay Lucas, The Age, Transurban Fees Bonanza
James Oaten, ABC, Melbourne's $50-Billion Suburban Rail Loop Risk Eating Up Spending
RADIO JOURNALISM (LONG FORM)
Jon Faine & Katrina Palmer, ABC Radio Mornings, State Election - Leaders Debate
Jane Lee, ABC Background Briefing, Death of Jeremy Hu
Gerard Whateley, 1116 Sen Whateley, Australia's Cricket Team Cheated
RADIO JOURNALISM (SHORT FORM)
Amy Bainbridge, Rachael Brown & Naomi Selvaratnam, ABC Radio AM, Insurance Industry Reports
Charlotte King, ABC The World Today, Canon Law and Child Abuse
Danny Tran, ABC Radio, Paedophile Legal Challenges
Jordan Tunbridge, 3AW, FIFA World Cup
REGIONAL AND RURAL JOURNALISM
Caleb Cluff, The Courier, Ballarat, Trouble at the Hill
Tyla Harrington, The Riverine Herald, Echuca Specialist School
Nigel McNay, The Border Mail, Identity
Bridget Rollason, ABC Ballarat, Cocaine Shipment Arrest
SPORTS FEATURE
Michael Gleeson, The Age, Long May He Lead
Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend magazine, Don’t Box Me In
Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend magazine, Maxed Out
John Stensholt & Max Mason, The Australian Financial Review, The Cricket Broadcast Wars – What Really Happened?
SPORTS NEWS
Michael Gleeson, The Age, Tiger Tom Lynch
Sam McClure, The Age, The AFL’s Game Changing Power Play
Leo Schlink, Herald Sun, The Big Fix
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPH
Michael Dodge, Getty Images, Caught Red Handed
Michael Dodge, Getty Images, Stop the Pigeon
Justin McManus, The Age, Kerrin McEvoy Celebrating in the Rain
SUBURBAN JOURNALISM
Jordy Atkinson, Port Phillip Leader, Bringing the House Down
Benjamin Millar, Maribyrnong & Hobsons Bay Star Weekly, DNA Test Triggers Visa Nightmare for Family
Paul Shapiro, Maribyrnong Leader, $21m Neighbourhood House Campaign
THE TAC TOWARDS ZERO QUILL FOR ROAD SAFETY REPORTING
Dean Felton, Seven News, Truck Blitz
Timna Jacks, The Age, The Problem of Pedestrian Deaths on Our Roads
Jacqui Peake, Billy Lim, Martin Elliott & Warwick Ferguson, Network Ten The Project, Train Driver Trauma
Kieran Rooney, Herald Sun, Roads to Ruin: The Trauma Haunting Victoria
TV/VIDEO FEATURE (LONG FORM)
Belinda Hawkins, Sarah Farnsworth, Mark Farnell & Peter Lewis, ABC Australian Story, The Justice Principle: Parts One and Two
Nick McKenzie, Ben Knight & Chris Gillett, ABC 7.30, Brutal Force
Louise Milligan, Mary Fallon, Sashka Koloff & Lucy Carter, ABC Four Corners, I Am That Girl
Nick Olle, Hamish Macdonald, Josh Wedd & Sam Mularczyk, Network Ten, Migrant Caravan Series
TV/VIDEO FEATURE (SHORT FORM)
Alexis Daish, Nine Network A Current Affair, Mum’s Plea
Tineka Everaardt, Nine Network A Current Affair, Inside Court
Luke Waters, SBS World News, This Still Happens
TV/VIDEO NEWS
Cameron Baud, Seven News, Miechel Release
Melina Sarris, Jackie Quist & Damian Shine, Seven News, Prisoner Football Program
Neary Ty, Nine News, Bourke Street Terror
Candice Wyatt, Ten News, Lion Air Disaster
THE VICHEALTH QUILL FOR COVERAGE OF WOMEN IN SPORT
Peter Lusted, ABC, Cruel 'Punishments' on Child Gymnasts
Kate O’Halloran, Crikey, Backlash and the War on Women's Sport
Samantha Lane, The Age, ROAR
Eliza Sewell, Herald Sun, Review Alters Flaw & Order
THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT QUILL FOR REPORTING ON DISABILITY ISSUES
Gus Goswell & Lauren Day, ABC 7.30, Disability Connections Across Cultures
Rachael Lucas, ABC Gippsland, Access to Fashion
Caroline Tung, Sporting Chance magazine, Alex Gale-Grime Rolling in a League of Her Own
THE MPC YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Reid Butler, Nine News
Tyla Harrington, The Riverine Herald
Matilda Marozzi, ABC
THE MPC STUDENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Jack Banister, University of Melbourne, Indigenous Suicide in Custody: How Have Lives Just Slipped Away?
Peter Bateman, Monash University, Walking the Poverty Line
Adrian Johnson, Monash University, Injury Cloud Over Dusty for Tigers’ AFL Premiership Defence
Angus Smith, Monash University, Eight Years On: The Syrian War and its Child Refugees
Selby Stewart, Monash University, Greens Investigating Candidate Rape Claim