Tracks magazine is stoked to announce that women’s content editor and writer Kate Allman has been nominated a finalist for Women’s Leadership in Media in the prestigious Mid-Year Awards by the Walkley Foundation for Journalism.
Kate is being celebrated alongside a team that includes longboard surfer Lucy Small and News Corp women’s sport editor Selina Steele for bringing media coverage to the Equal Pay for Equal Play campaign, which was initially devised when Kate interviewed Lucy for this story and published it in Tracks.
The team is up for the June Andrews Award for Women’s Leadership in Media – the winner of which will be announced at an awards ceremony on 15 June.
Tracks alongside The Daily Telegraph are listed as publishers of the coverage.
Kate said the dedicated space Tracks had provided to showcase women’s issues in surfing, including by putting Lucy Small on the cover of issue 583, had been key ingredients to the success of the campaign.
“Putting women in surf media has been a battle in the past – and the spotlight women are now being given is not solely the work of one journalist. It requires editors, publishers and interviewees to support it,” she said.
“Tracks is leading the way for creating more diversity in surf media and I’m proud to be part of that change. I hope other publishers will applaud and follow our lead.”
