Walkely Award-winning journalist. Words in @TheGuardian, @TheMonthly, @TheDiplomat, @Island. Views my own.
Sydney, New South Wales
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Thanks to everyone who supported this series. A gift to work with my colleague @rgcooke on our Monthly piece, with @mmccwill's investment of time & words in such solid investigative work. Grateful also for @stephharmon's editing in breaking the first stories at The Guardian.
Anna Verney & Richard Cooke (@rgcooke) @THEMONTHLY& @GuardianAus are the winners of the 2023 June Andrews Award for Arts Journalism Prize. #MidYearAwards. Congratulations!. Supported by @CopyrightAgency
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Some news from last night. Thank you to everyone who spoke to us and supported this story. Particular thanks to @mmccwill for his commissioning and editing and to my brilliant co-author @rgcooke.
The winners for Feature Writing Long (over 4000 words), supported by @withMEAA, are: Anna Verney (@akverney) and Richard Cooke (@rgcooke), @THEMONTHLY. #walkleys
Congratulations to my incredible cousin @jolauder and all the team that worked on Who’s Gonna Save Us: so well-deserved!
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Very spot on analysis about @dfat's failings on human rights in #Cambodia. Must reading for those following Australian foreign policy.
I have a feature for The Diplomat looking at criticisms of and considerations behind Australia's muted response to Hun Sen's autocracy prior to Cambodia's election: thediplomat.com/2023/07/miss… Thanks to all that spoke with me, incl. @Reaproy @JaredGenser @suecoffey21 @KTravouillon.
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Thanks @akverney for the stellar news article in @TheDipomat about #Australia's muted response to #Cambodia's strong turn to autocracy as #HunSen works hard to hand over power to his son #HunMamet. #FreeThearySeng. thediplomat.com/2023/07/miss…
I have a feature for The Diplomat looking at criticisms of and considerations behind Australia's muted response to Hun Sen's autocracy prior to Cambodia's election: thediplomat.com/2023/07/miss… Thanks to all that spoke with me, incl. @Reaproy @JaredGenser @suecoffey21 @KTravouillon.
Thank you also @sstrangio for the commission and editing. A pleasure to work with you, especially as the author of "the" book on Hun Sen!
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Congratulations to @akverney and @rgcooke for winning the Walkley Foundation’s June Andrews Award for their revelatory essay on John Hughes’s prolific literary plagiarism.
Revisit and read now: mnth.ly/gyNJayK
Our Monthly essay 'Being John Hughes', along with my earlier Guardian reporting on plagiarism in Hughes's The Dogs, are together a finalist in the Walkley arts journalism award. I'm proud of us! It was an absolute pleasure to work with and learn from @rgcooke. (Continued below)
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Further thanks to @stephharmon who commissioned my reporting for and edited me at The Guardian, along with @siancain. It was a pleasure to work with them and to have their support, especially while juggling reporting and a particularly sharp time of adjustment to a newborn!
Thanks in particular to @mmccwill for commissioning our Monthly piece and supporting what was a long and painstaking investigation and providing the piece the space it needed to be told.
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This piece by @akverney and @rgcooke from March’s @THEMONTHLY was a triumph, and I’m thrilled and proud to see their well deservedly @walkleys shortlisting today. A knotty, fascinating story that deserved the generous, considered take they gave it.
themonthly.com.au/issue/2023…
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So many congratulations to Anna Verney, nominated for the arts journalism award at the mid-year Walkleys, for her brilliant reporting on John Hughes: theguardian.com/books/2022/j…
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Climate has really wrecked the winners / losers style of budget reporting because the losers tend to be anyone residing within Earth's atmospheric layer which tends to include all of the winners
I spoke with @LEstrangeTimes on Radio National about discovering plagiarism in John Hughes’s The Dogs and the findings of @rgcooke and I’s Monthly article. Looking forward to the rest of the series!
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Almost like everything they have ever said and will continue to say on The Voice was and will be in bad faith
Really pleased to learn I’ve had a short story shortlisted in the 2nd Born Writers Award. Thanks to judges Vivian Pham, James Elazzi, Leni Shilton and Shannon Molloy! Looking forward to reading the other shortlisted entries once they’re published here: bornwritersaward.com/