Snow, Deborah

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Journalist, Print Journalist and Television Journalist

In 1991 Deborah Snow and Murray McLaughlin won a Walkley Award for their report 'Blood on the Bougainvillea'. The programme focused on the uprising in Bougainville and featured an interview with Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville commander, Colonel Leo Nuia, admitting that helicopters provided by Australia had been used to dump rebels’ bodies at sea.

She is currently (2008) a senior reporter for the Fairfax group.

Career Highlights

Events
c. 1980 -
Career in journalism active
1991
Walkley Award (Television) - Best Investigative Report (Television), Australian Broadcasting Corporation
1994
Walkley Award (All Media) - Best International Report, 'Moscow Uprising', Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Sources used to compile this entry: http://www.walkleys.com/winners/database.html.

Published Resources

Australian Women Exhibitions

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. [ Details... ]

Structure based on ISAAR(CPF) - click here for an explanation of the fields.

Prepared by: Nikki Henningham
Created: 6 November 2007
Modified: 16 October 2008

Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site
Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info
Prepared by: Acknowledgements
Updated: 3 December 2008
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