Brilliant student work catches judges' attention
Two student journalists whose stories have featured on mojonews.com.au are finalists in the Walkley Young Journalist of the Year Awards and the Jacoby-Walkley Scholarship.
The news comes as mojo's online audience has blossomed. Mojonews.com.au this week reached the milestone of 100,000 views since the site was relaunched 18 months ago.
Jack Paynter's story Cricket willow tree project drives investors bats was co-published in The Age. It told the story of a group that offered investments in willow trees to make cricket bats, and continued to demand fees from investors despite no sales over 16 years.
His story earned him a place among the top three in the Student Award section of the Walkley Young Journalist of the Year.
Nicola McCaskill is a finalist for the Jacoby-Walkley Scholarship, which is a paid internship working with some of Australia's best TV news and current affairs journalists.
She entered three stories, two of them published on mojonews.com.au – a highly original and award-winning photo essay about a day in the life of a Melbourne sex worker and a story on record numbers of European wasps in Victoria. The third was written for SBS Science.