RMSA member wins international award
 In a major coup for Australian rural broadcasting, local journalist Kerry Staight from ABC Landline has won the inaugural IFAJ Star Prize for Agricultural Broadcasting, announced this week in Belgium.
Her international success against finalists from five continents was celebrated on Friday at a Rural Media South Australia lunch featuring Kerry O'Brien, from the ABC's 7.30 Report.
Rabobank State manager James Robinson was also on hand to present her with a certificate commemorating her win in the television category of the Australian Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting, sponsored by Rabobank. He presented an encouragement award to RMSA president Ian Doyle who contested the national online video category.
Kerry Staight was named overall winner at the international level after taking out the television category of the IFAJ awards with a story about succession planning on family farms.
Former South Australian ABC rural reporter, Sarina Locke, now based in Canberra, won the radio category with a documentary about her visit to West Timor, following in the footsteps of her mother who worked there 15 years ago on an Australian-funded program to control exotic animal diseases.
 The winning entries are available online at www.acaj.org.au
More details about the awards are available at www.ifaj.org
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RMSA Honours Bob Snewin with Honorary Life Membership
 Honorary Life Membership recipient, Bob Snewin (middle) with fellow RMSA Hon Life Members, Ian Doyle (left) and Bruce Mitchell (right) |
Rural Media South Australia recently honoured its long serving Secretary/Treasurer, Bob Snewin with Honorary Life Membership of the organisation. Bob joins Jim McCarter, Bruce Mitchell and Ian Doyle as only the fourth person in RMSA’s forty year history to receive this honour.
Bob Snewin’s initial involvement with RMSA was over twenty years ago while he was State Manager of the Australian Dairy Corporation. He realised the invaluable role RMSA could play in influencing community attitudes toward the primary industry sector and in enhancing the flow of high level information back to people working in rural areas.
In a record for RMSA, Bob Snewin has served in the role of Secretary/Treasurer for well over a decade, including providing expert advice on the overall governance of the organisation. He continues in this role.
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| Rabobank broadcasts new media award
 Major rural lender, Rabobank, has come on board as sponsor of Australia's first national broadcast award for rural media.
Finalists in the Australian Star Prize for Rural Broadcasting will now compete for $1000 in prize money, thanks to the support of the bank.
The winner will also get to represent their country in the first ever international award for rural broadcasting, due to be announced in Belgium in April 2010.
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Wodonga journalist wins
national award again
The writing skills of young Victorian journalist John Conroy have won him the ACAJ Star Prize for Rural Journalism for the second year in a row.
An international panel of judges has named The Border Mail journalist as the best rural writer of the year for his feature "Out west, where the rain don't fall'.
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2009 Telstra BigPond
Rural Media Awards announced
South Australia's top rural journalists and photographers for 2009 were recognised today with the announcement of the Telstra BigPond Rural Media Awards.
Journalist Alisha Fogden (Stock Journal) and photographer Brenton Edwards (The Advertiser) are the 2009 Telstra BigPond Rural Media Journalist and Photographer of the Year.
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Expanded rural media awards
search for best in the bush
 Three major national awards for journalists and photographers covering rural issues have been announced today by the Australian Council for Agricultural Journalists (ACAJ).
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 RMSA honours Jon Lamb
Having spent a lifetime in the media, veteran journalist Jon Lamb was honoured by Rural Media South Australia at its 22 October function.
He was inducted as the RMSA's second Rural Media Icon. |
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 Win a trip
to Europe
The prestigious Alltech Young Leaders in Rural Journalism Award is once again being offered by Alltech in conjunction with the
Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists (ACAJ) and rural media clubs around Australia.
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 Tait Schmaal wins top national photo award
Advertiser Newspaper photographer Tait Schmaal has won the 2009 Australian Star Prize for Rural Photography.
The competition organised by the Australian Council of Agricultural Journalists (ACAJ) recognises the best photographers from around the country each year.
The winning photo of a young girl in a field with a backdrop of promising rain clouds was taken by Tait for the Adelaide Advertiser.
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