Fairfax Media journalists won the top awards at the Qantas Media Awards in Auckland. Phil Kitchin of the Dominion Post won the Senior Reporter of the Year Award and The Quantas Fellow to Wolfson College, Cambridge, where he will study investigative journalism for ten weeks. Along with Dominion Post editor Tim Pankhurst, Kitchin was awarded the Print Industry Award for Outstanding Achievement in acknowledgement of the skill, determination and courage in the newspaper’s investigation and publication of the Louise Nicholas case involving allegations of police pack rape.

Kitchin won the Senior Reporter of the Year for a portfolio of four stories while Ian Steward of The Press, another Fairfax publication, was named Junior Reporter of the Year. Qantas Awards were also given to the first crop of Fairfax Media journalism interns. The Manawatu Standard was named Newspaper of the Year in the up to 25,000 circulation category, which it last won in 2005. The Sunday Star-Times was a finalist in the Weekly Newspaper of the Year Award.

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