Awards Results 2025
Our seventeenth awards night was held on Friday November 7, 2025 at the Hotel Grand Chancellor Adelaide.
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See the winners and their entries below.
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- News Corp Australia Best News Report in Print or Online
- Commercial & General Best Feature in Print or Online
- RAA Best Sports Story in Any Medium
- Lion Australia Best Photograph in Print or Digital
- Nine Network Best Television News Report
- HWL Ebsworth Lawyers Best Long Form Television Report or Extended Coverage
- Adelaide Economic Development Agency Best Broadcaster in Television, Radio or Online
- Seven Network Best Camera News Coverage
- SAAB Australia Best Radio Report or Coverage
- People First Bank Best Podcast Series or Episode
- Mitsubishi Motors Australia Best Coverage of an Issue or Event via Social Media
- Santos Best Community Report in Any Medium
- Kelsian Best Regional or Rural Affairs Journalist in Any Medium
- Jeff Tims Jewellery Best Graphics including Interactive, Illustration or Cartoon in Any Medium
- Hotel Grand Chancellor Adelaide Best Columnist/Blogger in Print or Online Digital
- BHP Best Investigative Coverage of an Issue or Event in Any Medium
- Telstra Best Scoop of the Year
- Sarah Constructions Young Journalist of the Year
- Adelaide University Student Journalism Award
- SA Press Club Lifetime Achievement Award
- Gold Award
News Corp Australia
Best News Report in Print or Online
Lauren Novak, News Corp
“Stella & Frances Speak Out”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Brad Crouch, News Corp
“MP Assault Charge”
COMMENDED:
Luke Williams, News Corp
“Peter Zubic claims David Speirs ‘took advantage’ of his drug addiction”
Commercial & General
Best Feature in Print or Digital
Lauren Novak, News Corp
“Think of the Children”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Jessica Haynes, Leah MacLennan, Che Chorley & Caroline Horn, ABC
“An ecological disaster has been unfolding on Australia’s coast”
COMMENDED
Ben Hyde, News Corp
“I was hit by a car going at 170kp/h and survived”
RAA
Best Sports Story in Any Medium
Will Crouch, Nine Network
“Adelaide Lightning Collapse”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Josh Money, Seven Network
“Hot Mic Shame”
COMMENDED
Braden Ingram, Nine Network
“Willie Rioli exclusive”
Lion Australia
Best Photograph Print or Digital
Sarah Reed, Getty Images
“TDU – Classic Crash”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Che Chorley, ABC
“Algal Bloom”
COMMENDED
Keryn Stevens, News Corp
“Sarah Wade with three of her children”
Nine Network
Best Television News Report
Ben Avery, Nine Network
“Rapist’s Freedom”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Briana Fiore, ABC
“Widespread abuse in the massage industry”
COMMENDED
Nine News Adelaide
“Glenunga Investigation”
HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
Best Long Form Television Report or Extended Coverage
Angelique Donnellan, Carl Saville & Brant Cumming, ABC
“Whyalla: Close to the Brink”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Ben Hyde, Ruicheng Liang, Neely Karimi & Steven Grice, News Corp
“While I was sleeping”
COMMENDED
Diana Hayward, Kelly Hughes & Jason Abbott, Nine Network
“Social Concern”
Seven Network
Best News Camera Coverage
Matt Bonser, Network 10
“Farina Bakery”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Brant Cumming, ABC
“Bug Trade”
COMMENDED
Travis Levi, Seven Network
“Goodwin Search”
Adelaide Economic Development Agency
Best Broadcaster Television, Radio or Online
Mike Smithson, Seven Network
“Pangallo and bloom to Robran”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
James Wakelin, ABC
“James Wakelin Broadcaster”
Leah MacLennan, ABC
“Body of work”
SAAB Australia
Best Radio Report or Coverage
891 ABC Adelaide Breakfast
“Jodie’s access cab call to action”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Spence Denny, ABC
“891 ABC Adelaide Evening Program OB from Whyalla”
Samuel O’Brien, ABC
“SA pokie losses exceed $1billion for the first time”
People First Bank
Best Podcast Series or Episode
Rebecca Morse & Grace Wakelin
“In the Genes”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Chrystianna Konidis, Seven Network
“Mother’s classroom tirade”
COMMENDED
William Hunter, Leah MacLennan, Che Chorley, ABC
“Toxic algal bloom a sign of changing climate”
Santos
Best Community Report in Any Medium
Shannen McDonald, Nine Network
“Forgotten No More”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Che Chorley, ABC
“Great White Shark”
COMMENDED
Luke Williams, News Corp
“Davenport Community Council: Missing Millions and the Kids who suffer”
Kelsian
Best Regional or Rural Report in Any Medium
Caroline Horn, ABC
“The early days of the algal bloom”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Bill Ormonde, ABC
“Good eggs”
COMMENDED
Amelia Walters, ABC
“Tourette syndrome torment”
Jeff Tims Jewellery
Best Graphics including Interactive, Illustration or Cartoon in Any Medium
Deanna Keogh, Nine Network
“Body of Work”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Zach Hamilton, Nine Network
“Appliances/Vampire Energy”
COMMENDED
Lydia Bergamin, Nine Network
“Body of work”
Hotel Grand Chancellor, Adelaide
Best Columnist/Blogger in Print or Online Digital
Mike Smithson, InDaily
“Speirs and Beyond”
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Leah MacLennan, ABC
“Body of Work”
COMMENDED
Thomas Kelsall, ABC
“State Political Analysis”
BHP
Best Investigative Coverage of an Issue or Event in Any Medium
Hannah Foord, Seven Network
“Magill Taskforce“
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Evangeline Polymeneas, Amy Bissett & Kate Uren, News Corp
“Lockdown kids how to break a generation”
COMMENDED
Kathryn Bermingham, ABC
“Reappointment of Richard King”
Telstra
Best Scoop of the Year
Lauren Novak and Neely Karimi, News Corp
“Stella & Frances Speak Out“
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Caroline Horn, ABC
“Water tanks, dams dry up across Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu Peninsula”
COMMENDED
Brad Crouch, News Corp
“MP Assault Charge”
Sarah Constructions
Young Journalist of the Year
Angus Macdonald, Nine Network
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Charlie Dadds, News Corp
Amelia Walters, ABC
COMMENDED
Dasha Havrilenko, News Corp
Samantha Hogan, Nine Network
Jasmin Teurlings, Seven Network
SA Press Club
Lifetime Achievement Award
Samela Harris
Adelaide University
Student Journalism Award
Rachel Forbes
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Mia Handley
Commercial & General
Gold Award
Lauren Novak