New Media is a fast-growing and terrifically varied medium with Podcasts roaring away in popularity. It's an environment that develops a whole new breed of journalists with a whole new set of skills, married to our well-served traditions.

New Media is a medium whose success is more often than not built on teams of talent.

In the 2025 Kennedy Awards the prize for digital innovation went to a team from The Guardian with the entry called ‘Leaving Gaza’. One of that team was Ariel Bogle and if her talent and achievements are any guide the business is not only in safe hands but great ones.

Award nights invariably have some surprises and the 2025 Kennedys were no exception. Take the exotic category of Foreign Correspondent. You’d think the legacy media would have the category sewn up, but no, the award went to a freelancer, Prue Lewarne. Eccentric, foolish even, but Prue Lewarne went to some of the most dangerous places in the world and not only survived but has given us an extraordinary body of work driven by the standards of great journalism, idealism, curiosity and asking the why with incredible tenacity and perseverance.

Flavio  Brancleone won the 2025 Kennedy Award for the most outstanding news photograph with the same photo also winning the People’s Choice Award. It was an unusual and candid photo of Pope Francis lying in-state  at the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel that broke all the rules. Flavio is a freelancer born in Rome who has made Australia his home for the last 12 years. His approach to his craft and how he got that photo are a great story in themselves.

Mark Morri is The Daily Telegraph's Crime Editor and an old fashioned journalist thrown into the turbulent waters of the digital revolution. Not only has he survived but he’s flourished becoming one of our best and most recognisable crime reporters. His is a world of tattooed big guys, shootings and blacked out Mercedes. He now leads a bunch of young and keen reporters, he has much to teach them and us, and we also have much to learn.