Guardian Australia wins Kennedy awards for excellent digital innovation, pictures and columnist | Australian media

Guardian Australia has received three Kennedy awards for excellent digital innovation, excellent portrait pictures and excellent columnist at an trade occasion in Sydney.

The Leaving Gaza interactive, which showcased textual content messages exchanged between Palestinian pals – one in Gaza, one within the US – within the opening days of the Israel-Gaza conflict, received the innovation class.

The interactive was produced by Guardian Australia’s Rafqa Touma, Ariel Bogle, Mostafa Rachwani, Nick Evershed, Andy Ball, Christelle Basil and Shelley Hepworth.

Guardian Australia’s image editor, Carly Earl, received a Kennedy award for her portrait of 19-year-old Riley Swanson whereas overlaying a droving crew working south of Roma in central Queensland.

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Last month, the portrait received the 2025 Australian Life pictures competitors, with the judges praising Earl for capturing “a beautiful insight into reality of life in rural Australia” in her portrait of younger drovers in central Queensland.

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Freelance photographer Elise Darwin was additionally a finalist in the identical class for her portraits for Guardian Australia of residents of Lismore rebuilding their lives after damaging floods.

Guardian Australia’s Ranjana Srivastava, an oncologist and Fullbright scholar, received the excellent columnist class for her fortnightly items. Her entry was titled “On compassion and empathy in medicine”.

Guardian Australia’s podcast on Gina Rinehart was additionally nominated for the excellent podcast award. The podcast, offered by Sarah Martin and produced by Shelley Hepworth, Joe Koning and Miles Martignoni, charted the rise of Rinehart and her energy and affect.

The Kennedy awards is called after Les Kennedy, a much-loved Daily Telegraph and Sydney Morning Herald crime reporter with impeccable police contacts, who died in August 2011 on the age of 53. His pals and colleagues arrange the awards to honour his legacy.