Another stellar team effort, this time from ABC Kimberley’s Jessica Hayes, Hannah Murphy and Andrew Seabourne. They have won the Multimedia Feature Award - great work everyone! #WAMediaAwards23 MEAA

This award acknowledges the special skills required to present content for radio and digital broadcast, including interviews and podcasts. Congratulations to ABC News’s Isabel Moussalli, winner of the Best Audio News Story Award. #WAMediaAwards23 MEAA

Now we come to Television/Video Journalism: News Reporting. The winners . . . Nicolas Perpitch and Rebecca Turner, from ABC News. #WAMediaAwards23 MEAA Nicolas Perpitch Rebecca Turner

Awarded for excellence in research, impact & storytelling of a current affairs or feature story as well as production expertise & writing, the winner of Best Video Feature is ABC News reporter Erin Parke … welcome back to the stage. #WAMediaAwards23 MEAA Erin Parke

Erin has also won the award for Best Feature Writing - The Hugh Schmitt Prize, which honours the memory of feature writer Hugh Schmitt. Congrats, Erin! #WAMediaAwards23 MEAA Erin Parke

And Western Australia’s 2023 Journalist of the Year is . . . Tim Clarke! It’s a well deserved success. Tim also takes home $1,000 tonight, thanks to our WA Media Awards partner BHP. #WAMediaAwards23 MEAA

Here's what the judges had to say about Western Australia’s 2023 Journalist of the Year. Well done Tim Clarke! #WAMediaAwards23 BHP MEAA Seven West Media

A huge congrats to all of our wonderful WA Media Awards winners and runners up. You are a great credit to the profession. Visit MEAA's website - bit.ly/3Cu7Hai - for all judges’ comments. Goodnight!👋 #WAMediaAwards23 MEAA

The REAL #WAMediaAwards23 Year in Review video, produced by our friends at 9News Perth, is available for viewing here: youtube.com/watch?v=GwSubE….

Great News!!! Australian journalist Cheng Lei released from China, arrives in Melbourne abc.net.au/news/2023-10-1… via ABC Australia

ABC journalists across the country are urging ABC management not to hand over footage from the Four Corners report on climate protests to the WA Police which would be a breach of the MEAA Code of Ethics and would devalue the public's trust in the ABC. #PressFreedom #MEAAmedia

Last chance to purchase early bird tix 🐦 for WA’s Women in Media End of Year Sundowner at the recently revamped Claremont Hotel on Wed 1st November 💃🕺🎉🎊 TIX HERE: events.humanitix.com/wim-wa-end-of-… Ping Women in Media

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Our friends at @penperth will be in conversation with Behrouz Boochani for their annual lecture, November 15. Tickets from eventbrite.com.au/e/writing-free… MEAA #PressFreedom

MEAA's statement can be found here: meaa.org/news/meaa-stat…

Support the publication that supports freelancers! Earlier this year, Overland Journal became the first publication to sign onto the MEAA Freelance Charter of Rights. MEAA members can get a 20% discount off all Overland products and subscriptions this subscriberthon. To claim

Guardian Freelancers! A meeting for you. 👇

Congratulations Ian.

#MEAAmedia fully supports the rights of our members to stand up for the Code of Ethics. Any pressure or intimidation from managers to prevent workers from doing this is an overreach and an attack on both journalists' rights and the public's right to know. theage.com.au/business/compa…

Looking for a Geraldton-based reporter! Only open for a week so get cracking if you’re interested careers.abc.net.au/en/job/503692/…