• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE2801

Davis, Sharon

  • Occupation Journalist, Radio Journalist

Summary

For more than 20 years Sharon has reported on important stories both locally and internationally for ABC Radio. One of her documentaries prompted an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry into the use of prison informers. She covered the first democratic election in South Africa for Radio National, and was present in the refugee camps in Macedonia when Kosovars streamed across the border to escape the war.

Details

Sharon has won numerous awards for her work, including three Walkley awards, the Human Rights Award, the George Munster Award for Independent Journalism, and the International Women in Film and Radio Award. In 2000 she was awarded an International Reuters Scholarship to study at Oxford University.

In 1995 Sharon took leave from the ABC to work as a media trainer with disadvantaged groups in South Africa. She lived and worked there for three years.

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Events

  • 1991

    Best Investigative Report -Australian Broadcasting Corporation

    Walkley Award (Radio)
  • 1993

    Best Investigative Report – ‘Playing With Fire’ – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

    Walkley Award (Radio)
  • 2003

    Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special – ‘Crime and Punishment’ – Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Nick Franklin)

    Walkley Award (Radio)
  • 2007

    Radio Feature, Documentary or Broadcast Special – Australian Broadcasting Corporation – ‘The Search for Edna Lavilla’, with Eurydice Aroney

    Walkley Award (Radio)
  • 1988

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