Journalist Liam Mannix last night won his second Walkley award for innovative work at InDaily.
Mannix was presented with the innovation in journalism award at the Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year presentation in Sydney.
Judges said: “Liam Mannix demonstrated strong writing and research skills and combined them with a willingness to use data journalism to tell the story. His data visualisations were not only compelling for the readers, but highly relevant to the stories he was aiming to tell. He did what the best journalists do – he put in all the hard work himself so complex stories were easy for the reader to understand.”
Mannix started his journalism career at InDaily and was a member of our reporting team until after the state election, when he took up a job in Victoria. He now works for The Age.
InDaily editor David Washington said he was immensely proud that an independent news website in South Australia was able to nurture such great talent.
“Liam is an excellent reporter – innovative, tenacious and scrupulously ethical – and it was a pleasure to publish his work over the past few years,” Washington said.
“He’s created a legacy for his successors, and I’m pleased that we have been able to replace him with another excellent young journalist, Bension Siebert.”
Liam’s award was for three pieces of work published in InDaily – follow the links below to read them:
InDaily’s pollie tracker: What’s your MP been up to?
Interactive maps: SA’s pokies and disadvantage
