The following is a list of finalists for the 2020 Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism. The Student Journalist of the Year finalist list is also presented.
Finalists are listed alphabetically by surname.
Please note that links to stories may not comprise the full entry submitted for consideration.
The winners will be announced at the 2020 Quills Awards Dinner on Friday 26 March 2021. Tickets can be booked here.
ARTWORK
Richard Giliberto, The Age, State of Chaos
Richard Giliberto, The Sunday Age, Unknown Outcomes
Tia Kass, The Saturday Paper, We Feed You
Jim Pavlidis, The Age, Marvellous Melbourne
BEST BUSINESS STORY IN ANY MEDIUM
Sarah Danckert, The Age, Bigger Than the Wolf of Wall Street
Adele Ferguson, Lesley Robinson & Lauren Day, Four Corners & The Age, Immoral and Unethical
Jared Lynch & Nick Evans, The Australian, Ending Business Payment Rorts
BREAKING NEWS COVERAGE
The Herald Sun Breaking News Team, Herald Sun, Police Horror
Matt Johnston, Sunday Herald Sun, Coronavirus Restrictions in Victoria
Lana Murphy, Nine News Melbourne, Miracle on the Mountain
Mark Santomartino, Nine News Melbourne, Officers Killed
CARTOON
Andrew Dyson, The Age, Pandemic Parade
Matt Golding, The Sunday Age, “Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?”
Jim Pavlidis, The Age, Easter Bunny
COVERAGE OF AN ISSUE OR EVENT
The Age Online Team, www.theage.com.au, Coronavirus Pandemic Coverage
Louise Milligan, Mary Fallon & Lauren Day, ABC Four Corners, Boys Club
Tom Minear, Grant McArthur, Shannon Deery
& Mark Buttler, Herald Sun, COVID-19 coverage
Nine News Team, Nine News Melbourne, The COVID Capital
FATHER BOB MAGUIRE FOUNDATION COBBERWEALTH AWARD FOR REPORTING ON SOCIAL INCLUSION
Charmayne Allison, Shepparton News, Homelessness: A 21st Century Tragedy
Luke Henriques-Gomes, Guardian Australia, The Jobless Older Women Languishing in Poverty
Anastasia Safioleas, The Big Issue, Santa’s Little Helpers
FEATURES PHOTOGRAPH
Christopher Hopkins, The Age, "I Want to hold her Hand"
Eddie Jim, The Age, Dawn Service Under COVID-19
Justin McManus, The Age, Life in Isolation
Darrian Traynor, Getty Images, Lockdown 2020
FEATURE WRITING
Cheryl Hall, Belinda Hawkins & Megan Mackander, ABC online, Bad Romance
Chip Le Grand, The Age, How We Beat COVID
Grant McArthur, Sunday Herald Sun, Inside COVID's hot zone
Nick McKenzie, Good Weekend magazine, One Last Mission
THE GRANT HATTAM QUILL FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
Tyrone Dalton & Tamara Clark, ABC News, College Dorm Refunds Scandal
Nick McKenzie & Chris Masters, Nine Network 60 Minutes, War Crimes
Louise Milligan, Peter Cronau & Lucy Carter, Four Corners, Inside The Canberra Bubble
INNOVATION IN JOURNALISM
ABC Digital Stories Innovations Team, www.abc.net.au/news, Visualising the climate crisis
Rachael Dexter & Justin McManus, The Age, Documenting life in lockdown
Michael Green, André Dao & Tia Kass, The Saturday Paper, We Feed You
THE KEITH DUNSTAN QUILL FOR COMMENTARY
Waleed Aly, The Monthly & The Age, Tribal Counsel
Osman Faruqi, The Saturday Paper, On Black Lives Matter & Policing
Jake Niall, The Age, Laid Bare
John Silvester, The Age, Naked City
NEWS PHOTOGRAPH
Alex Coppel, Herald Sun, Malua Bay Fires
Eddie Jim, The Age, Inferno
Justin McManus, The Age, Evacuation of Mallacoota
Jake Nowakowski, Herald Sun, Anti-Lockdown Protest
NEWS REPORT IN WRITING
Luke Henriques-Gomes, Guardian Australia, Robodebt failure exposed by leaked documents
Aneeka Simonis, Herald Sun, Celeste Manno intervention order and stalking law reform
Wendy Tuohy, The Age, 'Sex discrimination and harassment widespread in Ambulance Victoria say paramedics'
PODCASTING
Rachael Brown, Josie Taylor, Tim Roxburgh & Martin Peralta, ABC, Trace: The Informer
CBAA From the Embers Team, Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA), From the Embers
John Silvester, Anu Hasbold, Margaret Gordon & Tom McKendrick, The Age, Naked City
Andrea Thiis-Evensen, ABC Radio National Earshot, The Lone Soldier
QUILL FOR RECOGNISING EXCELLENCE IN INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS REPORTING
Charlotte Grieve, The Age, Gomeroi Heritage
Belinda Hawkins, Andy Burns, Rebecca Armstrong & Ian Harley, ABC Australian Story, Making His Mark
Miki Perkins, The Age, Indigenous Affairs Portfolio
RADIO CURRENT AFFAIRS
Rafael Epstein, Tess Armstrong, Erin Mathews, Jessica Lukjanow & Ross Richardson, ABC Radio Melbourne Drive, Chaos at St Basil's Aged Homes for the Aged
Matilda Marozzi, Virginia Trioli, Katrina Palmer & Julz Hay, ABC Radio Melbourne, Mother and child call out Victoria Police for domestic abuse failures
Neil Mitchell, 3AW, Learner Lunacy
Dan Oakes & Jeremy Story Carter, ABC Background Briefing, Inside the multi-million dollar 'dummy director' scam
RADIO NEWS
Seb Costello, Triple M Breakfast, Police Pounce on Tiger
Iskhandar Razak, ABC 774 Afternoons, The Search for William Callaghan
Richard Willingham, ABC Radio News, Did Health Minister Jenny Mikakos & the Hotel Quarantine inquiry?
Brian Wilson, 3AW, Airline Emergency
REGIONAL AND RURAL JOURNALISM
Charmayne Allison, Shepparton News, Her Voice, Our Voice
Jess Davis, ABC Landline, Facing the future: Farmers finding a way forward from bushfire
Charlotte King & Andy Burns, ABC Regional & Background Briefing, Regional stillbirths: No one told these country mums why their babies died
Natalie Kotsios, The Weekly Times, Banks go for the gun
SPORTS FEATURE
Greg Baum, The Sunday Age, The Wright Stuff
Russell Jackson, ABC News, The Persecution of Robert Muir
Quentin McDermott, Greg Hassall, Rebecca Armstrong & Simon Winter, ABC Australian Story, Beating the Blues
Jake Niall, The Age, My Brother Lost At Sea
SPORTS NEWS
Sam McClure, The Age, Crows Camp Catastrophe
Jack Paynter & Paul Amy, Leader Community News, Cricket Victoria Cuts
Mark Stevens, RSN927/7NEWS Melbourne, Treloar Out The Door
Michael Warner, Herald Sun, Danny's Tragic Secret
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPH
Michael Dodge, AAP, Russian Around
Jason Edwards, Herald Sun, The Crux
Darrian Traynor, Getty Images, In the moment
Darrian Traynor, Getty Images, A Big Bash
THE TAC QUILL FOR ROAD SAFETY REPORTING
Reid Butler, Nine News, Road Safety Portfolio
Wes Hosking, Sunday Herald Sun/Herald Sun, Hi-tech toll fight
Kieran Rooney & Tom Minear, Herald Sun, Safer Streets: The plan to reshape Melbourne
Olivia Shying, Geelong Advertiser, High Stakes
TV CAMERA WORK (CREATIVE)
Glenn Edwards, Nine Network The Today Show, Cape Otway
Travis Nemtsas, Nine News, After Curfew
Ethan St Ellen, 7NEWS Melbourne, Fruit Picking Shortage
Simon Winter, ABC Australian Story, To Catch a Stalker
TV CAMERA WORK (SHOT OF THE YEAR)
Oli Bourguignon, 7NEWS Melbourne, Road Trip with Cardinal George Pell
John Parsons, Nine News, George Pell/Barwon Prison
Stephen Ramplin, Nine News, Wonder Woman
Cameron Schwarz, Nine Network A Current Affair, Mallacoota Last Evacuation
TV/VIDEO FEATURE (LONG FORM)
Sarah Abo, Darren Ally & Tracey Hannaford, Nine Network 60 Minutes, Hotel Quarantine: Security Breach
Cheryl Hall, Belinda Hawkins, Simon Winter & Andrew Cooke, ABC Australian Story, To Catch a Stalker Parts 1 & 2
Nick McKenzie, Joel Tozer, Sumeyya Ilanbey & Paul Sakkal, Nine Network 60 Minutes, The Faceless Man
Louise Milligan, Mary Fallon & Lauren Day, ABC Four Corners, Boys Club
TV/VIDEO FEATURE (SHORT FORM)
Christine Ahern, Nine Network A Current Affair, Epping Disgrace
Nadia Daly, ABC 7.30, Young ICU doctor with COVID speaks out
Sallese Gibson & Nina Funnell, Network Ten The Project, Let Us Speak
Jessica Longbottom, Patrick Stone & Elahn Zetlin, ABC 7pm News, On the frontline of Melbourne's covid mental health emergency
TV/VIDEO NEWS
Christine Ahern, Nine Network The Today Show, Quarantine Catastrophe
Cameron Baud, 7NEWS Melbourne, Fire Rescue
Teegan Dolling, 7NEWS Melbourne, Remorseless Killer Released
Paul Dowsley, 7NEWS Melbourne, George Pell's First Interview as a Free Man
THE VICHEALTH QUILL FOR COVERAGE OF WOMEN IN SPORT
Daniel Cherny, The Age, AFLW's year of big hits
Chris Gillett, ABC 7.30, Molly and Coral Taylor
Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend magazine, Boot strength
Kasey Symons, ABC News, RISE UP
THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT QUILL FOR REPORTING ON MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
André Dao, Michael Green & Tia Kass, The Saturday Paper, We Feed You
Konrad Marshall, Good Weekend magazine, On a flank and a prayer
Tamara McDonald, Geelong Advertiser, Doctor speaks out after racist attack
Erwin Renaldi & Ben Knight, ABC News, How community leaders in Melbourne's north helped drive down coronavirus outbreaks
THE VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT QUILL FOR REPORTING ON DISABILITY ISSUES
Stephanie Anderson, Nine News Melbourne, Jon Amos
Matilda Boseley, Guardian Australia, Melburnians with Disabilities Fear Aftermath of Long Lockdown
Chris Gillett, ABC 7.30, Olivia's Story
Lucy Kent & Norman Hermant, ABC 7.30 and ABC News, Catastrophically Injured Australians Still Waiting
Early career awards
THE MPC STUDENT JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Gillian Aeria, Monash University, The Junction, Size me up: The need for women’s tailored football boots
Abbir Dib, RMIT, SBS Dateline, Lebanon on the brink: Starvation looms amid economic collapse
Vanessa di Natale, University of Melbourne, The Mandarin, Legal representation for people with disabilities is shockingly low when appealing NDIS decisions
Jess Malcolm, University of Melbourne, Guardian Australia, Meet the bee brokers: ‘You never stop learning about bees, they’re just incredible’
Alexandra Middleton, RMIT, Shorthand, Regional, Rural and Remote Women Need Resources to Fight Family Violence
Maggie Zhou, Monash, Broadsheet, How My Mum’s Lockdown Cookouts With Relatives in China Helped Me Connect to My Cultural and Culinary Roots
THE MPC YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Michael Fowler, The Age
Ellen McCutchan, RMIT ABC Fact Check
Anthony Piovesan, Leader/ NCA NewsWire
Paul Sakkal, The Age