Neal Wallace, of Dunedin, won the Alliance Group Ltd Red Meat Industry Journalism Award, also for articles in Farmers Weekly.
The awards dinner was held in Wellington, where a total of 11 accolades were presented; nine were for journalism and one for photography.
In addition, there was a new award this year – the Primary Sector Communications Campaign Award – sponsored this year by the guild.
The key objectives of the journalism awards are the encouragement and recognition of excellence in agricultural journalism.
The winners are:
– The Ko Tatou This Is Us Biosecurity Journalism Award was won by Nikki Mandow of RNZ News/Newsroom.
– The AgResearch Science Writers Award was won by Richard Rennie, for articles which appeared in Farmers Weekly.
– The Rural Women New Zealand Journalism Award was won by Sally Rae of the Otago Daily Times.
– The Federated Farmers Broadcast Journalism Award was won by Carol Stiles for two items that were broadcast on RNZ’s Country Life programme.
– The Zespri Export Journalism Award was won by Nikki Mandow for items that appeared on RNZ News and Newsroom.
– Rural Women New Zealand Rural Connectivity Award was won by Anne Lee for articles which appeared in The Dairy Exporter.
– The Alliance Group Ltd Red Meat Industry Journalism Award, was won by Neal Wallace, for articles in Farmers Weekly.
