Walkley Awards

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The Walkley Awards are an Australian literary award given out annually. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board consisting of prominent journalists and photographers. The awards are officially administered by the Walkley Foundation for Journalism. They have often been considered an Australian answer to the Pulitzer Prize.

The awards were established in 1956 by businessman William Gaston Walkley, the founder of Ampol Petroleum. The first awards consisted of only five categories. After his death, the awards were handed over to the Australian Journalists' Association, which then became part of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. In 2000, the Alliance voted to create the Walkley Foundation to administer the awards. The same year, the Walkley Awards merged with the Nikon Press Photographer of the Year Awards to create the present organisation.

As of 2003, there are 33 awards presented each year. Only Australian-based newspapers or daily news organizations are eligible for the journalism prize. The awards are formally announced in October, and are presented at a formal ceremony in early December.

These are the individual Walkley Awards for the 2003 competition: