Finalists have been announced for the 49th Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year.

The award honours the memory of celebrated Age editor Graham Perkin and carries a $10,000 cash prize from the publication.

On the judging panel were Monique Farmer of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Nine's Brett McLeod, and The Australian's Cameron Stewart.

The winner will be announced at the 30th Quill Awards Dinner on Friday 21 March 2025. Book your tickets now.

Finalists for the 49th Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award are presented alphabetically by surname below. Please note that some work submitted with entries – including print materials – may not be included.

John Lyons, ABC News

• Ceasefire deal: John Lyons reflects on what he's seen, ABC News
• John Lyons: Life and death in the holy city, ABC Conversations Podcast
• Children are bearing the brunt of the horrors in Gaza. How can this go on?, ABC News, 12 February 2024
• Gaza has become a humanitarian catastrophe and Israel will have to answer tough questions, ABC News, 10 June 2024
• As Biden talks tough and support for a two-state solution grows, Gaza descends further into a humanitarian abyss, ABC News, 13 May 2024

Nick McKenzie, The Age

• Construction companies’ dirty dealings with bikies and underworld identities, 60 Minutes
• Construction boss convicted of fraud after ripping off innocent workers, 60 Minutes
• Building Bad, The Age
• ‘The LinkedIn Lecher’: Billionaire’s controversial approaches, board concerns revealed, The Age, 21 October 2024

Chris Reason, 7NEWS

• The Devil's Outback Playground, 7News, 15 February 2024

Ben Schneiders, The Age

• Building bad: How bikies, underworld have become a construction industry ‘cancer’, The Age, 13 July 2024

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