Daniel Clarke, the 2023 South Australian Journalist of the Year, can now add not one but two Kennedy Awards to his long list of well-earned accolades, especially as he now has the precarious joy of being a freelancer.

The Kennedy Foundation award for the Student Journalist of the Year underlines the Foundation’s commitment to supporting and encouraging young and aspiring journalists beginning what one would hope would be a long and rewarding career in Australian journalism.

One of the many highlights of the Kennedy Awards is when we reveal the best of our young journalists.

Tracey Croke was in marketing then became a journalist and travel writer and, in the Kennedy’s last year she won the gong for the best travel writing.