Reporters showing excellence in heath, science, environmental and technology journalism throughout 2007 were rewarded on Froday night at the Qantas Media Awards.
No awards were issued in the evironment and conservation and technology and science categories – suggesting the judges weren’t convinced that the awards were worth giving out based on the entries.
New Zealand Herald writer Chris Barton won the technology columnist and health feature award as well as the supreme award – the Wolfson fellowship to Wolfson College, Cambridge.
News reporter
Environment & Conservation Shell New Zealand award
No award made
Health, Medicine & Fitness
Winner: Lane Nichols, The Dominion Post, Lab test blunder
Newspaper Feature Writer
Environment & Conservation Shell New Zealand award
Winner: Tom Hunt, Nelson Mail, A poor state of repair
Health, Medicine & Fitness
Winner: Chris Barton, Weekend Herald A family fights to break the silence
Technology & Science Device Technologies award
Winner: Tim Cronshaw, The Press Unlocking the fading secret
Magazine Feature Writer
Environment & Conservation – Shell New Zealand award
Winner: Joanne Black, NZ Listener – Wheel of fortune
Health, Medicine & Fitness
Winner: David Fisher, NZ Listener – Did the system kill my child?
Technology & Science – Device Technologies award
Winner: Mike White, North & South – The mayor, the pigs and the
medical miracle