- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE2773
Connolly, Anne
- Occupation Journalist, Print journalist, Television Journalist
Summary
Anne Connolly started her career as a cadet journalist for The Australian. She completed a three-year traineeship on the newspaper and later worked as a freelance journalist in Dublin, sending articles back to Australia about the IRA ceasefire and peace process. She also did a course for foreign journalists based in Paris for eight months, only moving into TV when she returned to Australia. She then went on to work as a producer and journalist for the ABC’s Four Corners.
Events
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1999
Gold Walkley (with Richard Ackland, Deborah Richards) – ‘Cash for Comment’, Media Watch – ABC TV
Walkley Award (Gold Walkley) -
1999
Current Affairs Reporting -Less that 10 Minutes (with Richard Ackland, Deborah Richards) – ‘Cash for Comment’, Media Watch – ABC TV
Walkley Award (Television)
Published resources
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Site Exhibition
- The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html
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Resource
- Trove: Connolly, Anne, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-762067