Stephen McDonell
Stephen McDonell joined ABC as a reporter for Radio Current Affairs programmes AM, PM and The World Today.
Switching to television he worked at the 7.30 Report before going to Four Corners and Lateline.
In 2005 he took a year off to study Mandarin at Beijing's Language and Culture University. This followed an earlier sabbatical in 1997 studying Spanish at Madrid’s Universidad de Completense.
Along with the ABC’s Geoff Thompson, he won the Walkley Award for investigative journalism covering high-level bank fraud in Vanuatu and the New York Festivals prize for best documentary covering timber smuggling out of Indonesia.
In 2006 he returned to Beijing as the ABC’s China Correspondent.
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In the Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism, announced November 27, China Correspondent Stephen McDonell won the Best Coverage of the Asia-Pacific Region category with a package of stories covering the Sichuan earthquake, the Three Gorges Dam, China Internet and the violent crackdown by China on Tibetan students protesting in Beijing.
In the UN Media Peace Awards announced on Friday October 24, Middle East correspondent Matt Brown won the TV Current Affairs category for "Syria - Iraqi Refugees" and Eric Campbell received a Special commendation for his story from Armenia, "Ghosts of the Past" .
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