The Walkley Directors are the members and directors of the company Walkley Foundation Limited, which is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission.
Gay Alcorn is a senior writer with Good Weekend magazine. She is a former editor of The Age and The Sunday Age and former Melbourne editor of Guardian Australia. She is a three-time Walkley award winner.
Bridget Brennan is a Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung woman and the co-host of News Breakfast on the ABC. She is an award-winning Aboriginal affairs journalist and a former foreign correspondent at the ABC. Recently, she was the ABC's Indigenous Affairs editor and helped to establish the national broadcaster's first Indigenous Affairs Reporting Team. Bridget’s journalism has predominantly focussed on women and children.
Max is the Supervising Producer of the ABC’s award-winning investigative podcast and radio program Background Briefing.
Previously, he worked on Radio National’s Breakfast program as a producer and presenter, and on the ABC’s 2024 political documentary Nemesis.
His reporting has covered federal politics, social affairs, immigration, and extremism.
As a union delegate, he’s fought alongside colleagues to defend press freedom, protect the ABC’s independence, and improve working conditions for staff.
He’s committed to maintaining the Walkley Foundation’s mission of celebrating excellence and elevating the work of all journalists across the country.
Previously, he worked on Radio National’s Breakfast program as a producer and presenter, and on the ABC’s 2024 political documentary Nemesis.
His reporting has covered federal politics, social affairs, immigration, and extremism.
As a union delegate, he’s fought alongside colleagues to defend press freedom, protect the ABC’s independence, and improve working conditions for staff.
He’s committed to maintaining the Walkley Foundation’s mission of celebrating excellence and elevating the work of all journalists across the country.
Tyrone Dalton is an experienced ABC journalist who has spent the past several years reporting from regional Victoria, including Bendigo and Mildura. Since joining ABC News in 2019, he has told stories across television, radio and digital platforms, bringing regional issues and voices to audiences across Australia.
He is passionate about journalism that serves the public — holding people and institutions to account, giving communities a voice and telling important stories with fairness, accuracy and independence. He believes strong journalism is essential to a healthy democracy, particularly as regional newsrooms face pressure and public trust in media is tested.
Tyrone values the Walkley Foundation’s role in recognising excellence, supporting journalists throughout their careers and championing ethical, public-interest journalism. To him, its work helps ensure journalists have the skills, support and independence to do their jobs well — and that Australians continue to have access to journalism that matters.
He is passionate about journalism that serves the public — holding people and institutions to account, giving communities a voice and telling important stories with fairness, accuracy and independence. He believes strong journalism is essential to a healthy democracy, particularly as regional newsrooms face pressure and public trust in media is tested.
Tyrone values the Walkley Foundation’s role in recognising excellence, supporting journalists throughout their careers and championing ethical, public-interest journalism. To him, its work helps ensure journalists have the skills, support and independence to do their jobs well — and that Australians continue to have access to journalism that matters.
Nadine has worked across film, television and stage for over forty years. Beginning her career as a teenager in the much loved children's television series: The Henderson Kids, Nadine has appeared in many productions including City Homicide for the 7 Network, MR Black for Network 10 and Raw FM. Blue Water High, the Doctor Blake Mysteries and Savage River for the ABC. She is soon to appear in the second series of High Country for Foxtel. Nadine has appeared for all the major theatre companies in both classical and contemporary works and has received many awards for both her screen and stage work. Nadine has had a close relationship with journalists and journalism across her career and believes in the protection and recognition of quality journalism as a major pillar of democracy. Nadine regularly co hosts The Friday Revue, with Brian Nankervis on ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently the Vice President of Equity, advocating strongly for the protection and funding of Australian stories.
Nour Haydar is host and senior producer of Guardian Australia’s award-winning daily news podcast Full Story. Before joining the Guardian, she worked as federal political reporter in the Canberra press gallery, covering national politics for the ABC from Parliament House and appearing across the ABC’s television, radio and digital platforms, including News Breakfast and Afternoon Briefing. Nour is committed to improving media coverage and reporting practices around gender-based and state-sanctioned violence.
Bianca Nogrady is a freelance science journalist with more than two decades of experience as a freelancer reporting on science, health and the environment. Her work has appeared in national and international outlets including The Saturday Paper, the Guardian, Nature, the ABC, the Griffith Review and Wired. She is the author of three non-fiction books on sustainability, death and climate change, and a two-time editor of the Best Australian Science Writing anthology.
David Ross is a journalist at The Australian, covering business and finance for more than six years. Before joining The Australian he was a freelance journalist, writing for local and overseas publications, and has also worked at the European Parliament in Brussels. He strongly believes in the power of good journalism and reporters who can deliver a ripping yarn.
Kasun Ubayasiri is a print and photojournalist who worked in Sri Lanka, and rural and regional Queensland before taking up a journalism teaching position at Griffith University, Queensland, where he is employed as Senior Lecturer and Program Director of Journalism and Communication. He continues to work on longform photodocumentary projects focusing on human rights and migration. He has a PhD from Queensland University of Technology and is the co-author of Journalism for Social Change in Asia: Reporting Human Rights. He is a strong believer in building united, ethical and robust journalistic collectives that can face the challenges of the future.