May 10th, 2021 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: News,
ABC’s Annah Fromberg and The Mercury’s Amber Wilson were jointly named Journalist of the Year at the MEAA’s Tasmanian Media Awards on the weekend.
Hobart-based Fromberg was also awarded for Public Service Journalism for her investigation into a controversial program for troubled kids.
The Keith Welsh Award For Outstanding Contribution To Journalism went to veteran camera operators David Brill and Tony King.
David Brill spent decades travelling the world, covering most of the major international conflicts of the past 50 years – the fall of Saigon, the fall of the Berlin Wall and on assignment in Afghanistan, the Balkans and South America. David worked as a video journalist for SBS’
It began last Sept. 17 when Powell was at least the fifth Census enumerator to visit the farm on Pinetown Road outside of Wellsville, the notes left by other workers indicating that the residents were not cooperative.
They weren t, according to Powell and testimony at a previous preliminary hearing. An altercation ensued and after Powell left, the residents called the state police. Later, after the trooper visited Powell to get a statement, she was charged with trespassing, criminal mischief and harassment.
Powell believed she had been charged for trying to do her job.
It is believed that only two Census workers had been charged with trespassing during the the 2020 count. The other, in Hawaii, had also been dismissed, the judge in that case admonishing the police for not knowing the law, which gives Census workers the right to enter properties to conduct the constitutionally mandated count.
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