- Best Photography – Features
Alan Gibson | UNO Magazine
Alden Williams | The Press / Stuff
Chris Skelton | The Press / Stuff - Best Photography – News
David White | Stuff
Iain McGregor | The Press / Stuff
Mike Scott | NZ Herald / NZME - Best Photography – Sport
Andrew Cornaga | Photosport Ltd
Brett Phibbs | PhibbsVisuals, Photosport, NZ Herald / NZME
Kai Schwoerer | The Press / Stuff - Photographer of the Year
Kai Schwoerer | The Press / Stuff
Michael Craig | NZ Herald / NZME
Stephen Jaquiery | Otago Daily Times / Allied Press
- Best Innovation in Digital Storytelling
Jamie Morton | NZ Herald / NZME – Deep Trouble: How climate change has reached the world’s end
Chris Knox | NZ Herald / NZME – Moving away from geography: Election results on a New Zealand tile map
Guyon Espiner and Farah Hancock | RNZ – The Interview - Best (shortform) Video of the Year
Barbara Dreaver and Harley Peters | 1 News / TVNZ – Auckland downtown shooting
TVNZ Breakfast Team with Jenny-May Clarkson | 1 News / TVNZ – Breakfast Cyclone Gabrielle Lifeline
Chris Skelton and Shannon Redstall | Stuff – Brothers in tears in aftermath of flood destruction - Best Current Affairs (short) – less than 20 mins – Sponsored by NZ On Air
Paddy Gower Has Issues | Newshub / Warner Bros. Discovery – Bullying and Mobile Phones
The Hui | Great Southern TV – Kura’s story
newsroom.co.nz – Return to Gore - Best Current Affairs (long) or Documentary – Sponsored by NZ On Air
RNZ – Boiling Point – March 2nd
TP+ – Our Country’s Shame
1News.co.nz / TVNZ – Slash - Best Original Podcast or Series
RNZ and Aotearoa Media Collective – MATA with Mihingarangi Forbes
RNZ – Mr Lyttle Meets Mr Big
Melanie Reid and team | newsroom.co.nz – The Boy in the Water - Video Journalist of the Year – Sponsored by NZ On Air
Baz Macdonald | Re: News / TVNZ
Lawrence Smith | Stuff
Marika Khabazi | RNZ - Digital News Provider of the Year – Sponsored by Voyager Internet
nzherald.co.nz / NZME
Stuff
The Post / Stuff
- Best Columnist, Opinion or Critique
Danyl McLauchlan | NZ Listener / Are Media
Madeleine Chapman | The Spinoff
Steve Braunias | newsroom.co.nz - Best Up and Coming Journalist
Ella Stewart | RNZ
Lauren Pattemore | Crux
Mitchell Hageman | Hawke’s Bay Today and NZ Herald / NZME - Best Investigation
Nick Perry | NZ Herald / NZME and Associated Press – Antarctic Sexual Harassment and Assault
Blair Ensor | Stuff – Damon Exley’s Prison Escape
Melanie Reid and team | newsroom.co.nz – The Boy in the Water - Best Scoop
Andrea Vance | The Press / Stuff – Kiri Allan ‘yelled and screamed’ at me, senior public servant says
Mike White | Sunday Star-Times / Stuff – ‘I made it up.’ Top cop allegedly confessed to prominent NZer that he framed David Tamihere
Victoria Young | BusinessDesk / NZME – Leaked: Fletcher pipe problem will cost A$1.8b, major builder claims - Best Coverage of a Major News Event
Michael Morrah with Nick Estelrich, Newshub – for coverage of Cyclone Gabrielle
Newshub team – for coverage of Cyclone Gabrielle
The Post / Stuff – for coverage of the fatal Loafers Lodge fire - Best Editorial Campaign or Project
Mary Williams | Otago Daily Times / Allied Press – Houses of Horror
Gill Higgins, Kaitlin Aldridge and Nicola Russell | Fair Go / TVNZ – Limitless Campaign
Steve Kilgallon | Stuff – The shambles of NZ’s Accredited Employer Work visa scheme - Le Mana Pacific Award
Indira Stewart | 1News / TVNZ
John Pulu | Tagata Pasifika / Sunpix Ltd and TVNZ
Soana Aholelei | Tagata Pasifika / Sunpix Ltd and TVNZ - Te Tohu Kairangi Award
Aaron Smale | newsroom.co.nz
D’Angelo Martin | Great Southern TV
Mihingarangi Forbes | Aotearoa Media Collective
Moana Maniapoto | Whakaata Māori - Cartoonist/Animator of the Year
Rod Emmerson | NZ Herald / NZME
Sharon Murdoch | The Post, The Press, Sunday Star-Times / Stuff
Toby Morris | The Spinoff - Sports Journalist of the Year – Sponsored by Sport New Zealand
Jordan Oppert | 1News / TVNZ
Michael Burgess | NZ Herald / NZME
Mike White | Sunday Star-Times, The Post, The Press / Stuff - Business Journalist of the Year – Sponsored by Spark NZ
Corazon Miller | 1News / TVNZ
Eloise Gibson | Stuff and RNZ
Victoria Young | BusinessDesk / NZME - Gordon McLauchlan Journalism Award – Sponsored by Air New Zealand
Greg Bruce | NZ Herald / NZME
Hikurangi Jackson | Whakaata Māori
Mike White | Sunday Star-Times / Stuff - Local Journalist of the Year – Sponsored by Air New Zealand
Annemarie Quill | Stuff
Logan Savory | The Southland Tribune
Nadine Roberts | Stuff - News Journalist of the Year – Sponsored by Whakaata Māori
Alexa Cook | Newshub / Warner Bros. Discovery
Nick Truebridge | Newshub / Warner Bros. Discovery
Tony Wall | Stuff - Political Journalist of the Year
Amelia Wade | Newshub / Warner Bros. Discovery
Audrey Young | NZ Herald / NZME
Jack Tame | Q+A / TVNZ - Editorial Leader of the Year
Daisy Hudson | Ashburton Guardian
Rebecca Howard | BusinessDesk / NZME
Tracy Watkins | The Post and Sunday Star Times / Stuff
- Best News, Current Affairs or Specialist Publication
New Zealand Listener | Are Media
NZ Gardener | Stuff
Re: News | TVNZ - Best Newspaper Magazine
Canvas | Weekend Herald / NZME
Sunday / Rātapu | Sunday Star-Times / Stuff
Viva | NZ Herald / NZME - Junior Feature Writer of the Year
Charlotte Muru-Lanning | The Spinoff
Gabi Lardies | New Zealand Geographic and The Spinoff
Hanna McCallum | The Post / Stuff - Feature Writer of the Year
Ellen Rykers | New Zealand Geographic / Kōwhai Media
Kirsty Johnston | RNZ and Stuff
Toby Manhire | The Spinoff - Reporter of the Year – Sponsored by Voyager Internet
Nicholas Jones | NZ Herald / NZME
Nikki Macdonald | The Post / Stuff
Sam Sherwood | NZ Herald / NZME - Community Newspaper of the Year
Ashburton Guardian
Gulf News / Pendragon Press Ltd
Mahurangi Matters - Regional Newspaper of the Year
Hawke’s Bay Today / NZME
Nelson Mail / Stuff
Waikato Times / Stuff - Weekly Newspaper of the Year
Otago Daily Times Weekend / Allied Press
The Weekend Press / Stuff
Weekend Herald / NZME - Metropolitan Newspaper of the Year
NZ Herald / NZME
The Post / Stuff
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