The Sydney Morning Herald’s associate editor Kathryn Wicks honoured at 2025 Kennedy Awards as outstanding mentor
Nine’s General Manager and Old Forerunner The manager Editor Toray Maguire remembered with love as a digital editor, which successfully combines the ambition of wild digital publishing with old school journalism values so successfully.
Wicks since 2023 Forerunner‘Fly Director, projects and training, as well as the NSW politics, education, health, urban affairs and state news containing the new Parramat Office as of this year – follows the local stories that are very important for readers.
Among them, ForerunnerHSC is a reporter, live blogger, data guru, designers and programmers to produce the leading scope of the results of 12 years in digital and printing every year.
He is approaching HSC with the mentality of a woman who spends years at the sports table, guides reporters through live scope, analysis and trends, and finds the journey of the hero’s show. James Ruse and North Sydney Boys can be a joke to the top of the war. ForerunnerHSC ranking is its origin. However, Wicks’s enthusiasm for HSC, Forerunnerreaders in depth.
Thirty -five years after he became a student, Wicks in 2022 ForerunnerIn addition to the old school, the trainee program, which will add video, audio and data journalism, “Go to this suburb and bring me back a story until the end of the day” training.
The renewed 12 -month program won the third at the 2023 International News Media Association Awards, a proof of Wicks’ commitment to encouraging new generations. Forerunner Journalists.
“You often not meet someone who has spent thirty years in the media industry and still loves as the first day – but Kathryn Wicks that person,” he wrote Forerunner Sports correspondent Billie Eder, Health Reporter Angus Thomson, Science Correspondent Angus Dalton, Economic Writer Millie Muroi and Parramatta Office Chief Anthony Segaert, directed by Wicks and presented to Kennedy’s judge panel.
From the left: Herald Health correspondent Angus Thomson, Economic writer Millie Muroi, Assistant Editor Kathryn Wicks, Sports Reporter Billie Edir, Science Reporter Angus Dalton and Bureau Chief of Parramat Anthony Segaert.
Although this group was the first person to be officially seen as a shepherd to his career by the wicks, he provided continuous support to countless young journalists. Forerunner In their professional and personal lives, the news room is quietly choosing a complex story on the deadline, preparing a perfect title, offering priceless career advice, and even hosting bride and baby shower in office kitchen.
. ForerunnerMichael Koziol, a North American correspondent, one of the mentas of the wick, said that he was a “archetypical office mother ,, but he said that he was a multi -faceted one: when he invited the youngest journalists to the news room, gentle and compassion make them difficult for better lines and only one more phone call”.
Kat KATH is the person who is really the happiest when he succeeds, from everyone I met in this sector.
Luke McILVEEN, Editor -in -Chief of Nine’s Metro Mastheads, ForerunnerHe said in any news room that no one saw that young journalists pushed their careers so selflessly.
“Every day he fights for a jump all day and he does all of us better,” he said.
