The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age’s Nick McKenzie has been named Journalist of the Year at the NRMA Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
On a night where many Herald and The Age journalists and photographers were recognised, McKenzie was honoured for his landmark investigative reporting of misconduct in the Labor Party’s Victorian branch, a corporate scandal at Crown Resorts and alleged atrocities by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan.
His portfolio of three unrelated stories – “The…