THE creative use of the #homesafe hashtag helped Australian Community Media receive a high commendation at Friday’s Quill Awards in Melbourne.
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The Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards recognise excellence in Victorian journalism.
ACM’s Victorian mastheads have worked on #homesafe since October last year.
The project aims to help reduce the state’s road toll.
The #homesafe team includes journalists from The Bendigo Advertiser, The Border Mail in Albury-Wodonga, The Courier in Ballarat, The Standard in Warrnambool, and The Wimmera Mail-Times.
Journalists Ashley Fritsch, Cassandra Dalgleish, Olivia Shying, Patrick Nolan, Natalie Croxon, Kate Zwagerman, Monique Patterson, Shana Morgan, Alison Plasto and Erin McFadden were involved.
Victorian group managing editor Andrew Eales congratulated the team on its high commendation in the TAC Towards Zero Quill for Road Safety Reporting category.
"The road toll continues to have a daily impact on the communities ACM mastheads serve,’’ he said.
“I'm very proud of the work of our journalists and photographers to keep driving a message to road users and government to reduce this impact.’’
RACV Royal Auto Magazine won the 2016 TAC Towards Zero Road Safety Quill for ‘Impact – Victoria’s Hidden Road Toll’.
Fellow ACM journalist Melissa Cunningham won the coveted Melbourne Press Club Quill award for best regional journalism for her coverage of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Ballarat.