The Silver Logie for Most Outstanding News Coverage or Public Affairs Report is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. The award is given to recognise outstanding news or public affairs reporting.
The first award for news coverage was awarded at the 12th Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1970 as Best News Reporting. In 1971, two awards were presented for Most Outstanding News Coverage and Most Outstanding Coverage Of Political Affairs with the latter changed to Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism the following year. From 1973 they were Best News Coverage and Best Public Affairs Program. Over the years, these award categories have changed to recognise news reports, news or public affairs programs, special reports or public affairs reports.
At the 60th Annual TV Week Logie Awards in 2018, the industry voted awards for news and public affairs Most Outstanding News Coverage and Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report were combined to create the award for Most Outstanding News Coverage or Public Affairs Report.
Winners and nominees Key Meaning Indicates the winner
Best News Reporting Year Winner NetworkRef 1970 Steve Raymond, for stories on Marianne Faithfull and a mass teenage funeral at Warren in NSW
Most Outstanding News Coverage Year Winner NetworkRef 1971 Heinz Voelzer 1972 Victoria-Springbok rugby match
Most Outstanding Coverage Of Political Affairs Year Winner NetworkRef 1971 This Day Tonight
Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism Year Winner NetworkRef 1972 Dateline '71 1973 Caroline Jones 1974 Steve Raymond 1975 Federal File 1977 "Cedar Bay", This Day Tonight 1978 "The Werribee Incident", A Current Affair
Best News Coverage Year Winner NetworkRef 1973 George Street bombings 1974 Balsa rafts Chile/Australia trip 1975 Frank Sinatra in Australia
Best Public Affairs Program Year Winner NetworkRef 1973 A Current Affair 1974 A Current Affair 1975 A Current Affair 1976 A Current Affair 1977 A Current Affair 1978 Willesee at Seven
Best News Report Year Winner NetworkRef 1976 Timor report 1977 Ahmad fire 1978 Blue Mountains bushfires 1979 Bank siege and chase 1980 Star Hotel Riot 1981 "Moreton Bay Rescue", Seven News 1982 Boy Down Well 1984 Ash Wednesday coverage 1985 Bank Siege 1986 Eagle Farm Siege
Outstanding Public Affairs Report Year Winner NetworkRef 1980 "Child Prostitution", Four Corners 1981 "The Chelmsford File", 60 Minutes 1982 "Never Say Die", 60 Minutes 1983 "Annie", 60 Minutes 1985 "The Education of Stephen Lusher", 60 Minutes 1985 "Tax Summit", Sunday
Most Outstanding Achievement in News Year Winner NetworkRef 1987 "Russell Street Bombing" 1988 "Hoddle St Massacre" 1989 "Walsh Street murders", Michael Venus 1990 "Romanian Revolution", Mark Burrows 1991 "John Lombard" 1992 "Coode Island Fires", National Nine News 1993 "Bangkok Riots" 1994 "Sydney 2000 Announcement" 1995 "Rwanda Refugee Crisis" 1996 "Muraroa Protests", National Nine News 1997 "Port Arthur Massacre", ABC News 1998 "Thredbo Tragedy", Seven Nightly News "Travel Rorts" "Thredbo Tragedy"
Most Outstanding Achievement in Public Affairs Year Winner NetworkRef 1987 "Coup D'Etat", ABC News 1988 Four Corners 1989 Four Corners 1990 "True Believers", Four Corners 1991 "Other People's Money", Four Corners 1992 "The Soviet Union", Lateline 1993 The Investigators 1994 "Ships of Shame", Sunday 1995 "Inside a Holocaust", Four Corners 1996 "Minor Surgery, Major Risk", Four Corners 1997 "The Prisoners Who Waited", Sunday 1998 "Where Does The Buck Stop?", Four Corners "Showdown in Emerald", Sunday "Valentine's Day", Australian Story
Most Outstanding Public Affairs Program Year Program NetworkRef 1999 "Balibo Five", Foreign Correspondent "Dancing with Strangers", Australian Story 60 Minutes Sunday
Most Outstanding Documentary or Special Report in a Public Affairs Program Year Program NetworkRef 2000 "Facing the Demons" "A Race to Survive", Four Corners "Sierra Leone", Dateline "The Keating Millions", 60 Minutes
Most Outstanding Special Report in a Public Affairs Program Year Program NetworkRef 2001 "Fixing Cricket", Four Corners "Balibo: The Simple Truth", Dateline "On Life's Border: The Struggle of North Korea's Refugees", Dateline "Sierra Leone", Foreign Correspondent 2002 "See No Evil" and "The Dirty War", Dateline "The Body Snatchers", Sunday "Party Tricks", Four Corners "Wahid—Inside the Palace Walls", Foreign Correspondent
Most Outstanding News Coverage Year Program NetworkRef 1999 "Indonesia Crisis", ABC News "Papua New Guinea Tidal Wave", National Nine News "Linton Bushfires (Victoria)", Seven Nightly News "The Waterfront Dispute", National Nine News 2000 "Timor", Seven Nightly News "East Timor", ABC News "Liberation Day in Kosovo" "The East Timor Crisis" 2001 "World Economic Forum/S11 Protests", National Nine News "East Timor", ABC News "Middle East", ABC News "Shoot-out in Suva", National Nine News 2002 "Afghanistan", ABC News "September 12th", ABC News "America Under Attack", National Nine News "NSW Christmas Bushfires", Seven News "Tampa Crisis", Seven News 2003 "The al-Qaeda Tapes", ABC News "Bali Bombing", ABC News "Bali Explosion", National Nine News "Bushfires", Seven News "The New Kurdistan", Dateline 2004 "Marine's fire", ABC News "Canberra bushfires", National Nine News "Waterfall disaster", Seven News 2005 "Tsunami: 30 December 2004", National Nine News "Beslan", National Nine News "Iraq Hostage", ABC News "Victoria Ganglands", ABC News "Tsunami Disaster", Ten News 2006 "Aceh: Last Man Standing", ABC News "The Bali Nine", Ten News } "New Orleans Rescue", Seven News "Schapelle Corby Verdict", Seven News "Vivian Solon", Lateline 2007 "Sexual Abuse in Aboriginal Communities", Lateline "Escaping the Border", ABC News } "Escaping the Mine", Sunrise "Scully Sacking", National Nine News "Sexual Abuse of the Elderly", Lateline 2008 "Garuda Plane Crash", Seven News "East Timor: Finding Alfredo", Foreign Correspondent } "Federal Election" "Pasha Bulker", National Nine News "Timor Baucau", SBS World News 2009 "China Earthquake", ABC News "Brisbane Storms", Seven News "China Earthquake", Nine News Sydney "Financial Crisis" "Nike Human Rights Investigation", Seven News 2010 "Victorian Bushfires", Seven News "Bushfire Disaster", Ten News Victoria "Godwin Grech", ABC News "Samoan Tsunami", Nine News "Victorian Bushfires", ABC News 2011 "New Zealand Mine Disaster", Seven News "Afghanistan Rocket Attack", Ten News "Election 2010" "Laurie Oakes Election Leaks", Nine News "Pakistan Floods", ABC News 2012 "The Queensland Floods", Nine News "Lockyer Valley Flood", Seven News Brisbane "Qantas Grounded", Sky News National "Skype Scandal", Ten News at Five "Unfinished Business", SBS World News Australia 2013 "Catholic Church Allegedly Hid Crimes of Paedophile Priests", Lateline "Baden-Clay", Nine News "Cabinet Leaks", Seven News Sydney "Fukushima", ABC News "Rudd Vs Gillard Leadership Challenge", Sky News 2014 "NSW Bushfires", Nine News "Crisis in Cairo" — Brett Mason, World News Australia "Leadership Spill" "Missing the Boat" – Jaymes Diaz interview, Ten Eyewitness News "The Dark Side of the Force", Seven News 2015 "Lindt Café Siege", Seven News "Moree", NITV News "Peter Greste Trial", 7pm News "Sydney Siege", Nine News "What Is Metadata", Sky News 2016 "Parramatta Shooting", Seven News "Iraq-Syria War Coverage", ABC 7pm News "Liberal Leadership Crisis: Abbott v Turnbull", Sky News "Migrant Crisis - Special Report", ABC 7pm News "Paris Attack", Seven News 2017 "Sky News Election Coverage 2016" Sky News Live "Bankstown Hospital", Nine News "Federal Election 2016", Seven News "Inside Syria", SBS World News "S.A. Waste Dump", NITV News
Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report Year Program NetworkRef 2004 "The Big A (Hazel Hawke Story)", Australian Story "Aceh (In Bed With The TNI)", Dateline "Inside Nauru (Pacific Despair)", Dateline "The Jesuits", The 7.30 Report "Making a Killing", 60 Minutes 2005 "Into the Forest (Ivan Milat) Part 1", Australian Story "Beslan Prepares for a Funeral", The 7.30 Report "Coming Clean: Drugs and Cycling", 60 Minutes "The Trials of Mamdouh Habib", Dateline "Taliban Country", Dateline 2006 "The Gathering Storm", Australian Story "After the Waves: Asia's Tsunami, One Year On", The 7.30 Report "Inside Indonesia's Sex Trade", Dateline "Hands Off", 60 Minutes "Melbourne Confidential", Four Corners 2007 "The Terri Irwin Interview" "Abu Ghraib", Dateline "Four Days in Dili", Dateline "The Great Escape: Brant Webb and Todd Russell" "The Mourning After", Australian Story 2008 "Some Meaning in This Life: Belinda Emmett", Australian Story "The Big Sting", 60 Minutes "Final Call", Four Corners "Hicks On Trial", Insight "Rwanda: Questions of Murder", Dateline 2009 "Afghanistan: A Survivor's Tale", Foreign Correspondent "Friday's Child", Australian Story "Mugabe's Calling Card", Dateline "Out of Control", 60 Minutes "Timor War Criminal", Today Tonight 2010 "Code of Silence", Four Corners "Liberal Leadership Meltdown" "Matthew Johns Interview", A Current Affair "Proof of Life", Australian Story "Rising from the Ashes", 60 Minutes 2011 "Smugglers' Paradise", Four Corners "Brothers in Arms", Sunday Night "The Condemned", Dateline "Hey Dad..! Scandal", A Current Affair "Iraq's Deadly Legacy", Dateline 2012 "A Bloody Business", Four Corners After The Deluge: The Valley "Rescue 500", Sunday Night "Salma in the Square", Foreign Correspondent Tour of Duty: Australia's Secret War 2013 "Captain Emad: Smugglers' Paradise – Australia", Four Corners "Abducted!", 60 Minutes "Anatomy of a Massacre", Dateline "The World According to Lance (Lance Armstrong)", Four Corners "Unholy Silence (Catholic Church)", Four Corners 2014 "Prisoner X" — The Australian Connection, Foreign Correspondent "A Gracious Gift", Four Corners "Drugs in Sport" — Stephen Dank, 7.30 "Manus Island", Dateline "Prime Suspect", Sunday Night 2015 "Banking Bad", Four Corners "Ian Thorpe – The Parkinson Interview", Ian Thorpe – The Parkinson Interview "Ice Towns", The Feed "Joining the Fight", Insight "Searching for C11", Australian Story 2016 The Killing Season "Catching a Monster", 60 Minutes Hitting Home "Making a Killing", Four Corners "The Siege Survivors", 60 Minutes 2017 "Australia's Shame", Four Corners "Anita Cobby: You Thought You Knew It All…", Seven News Investigates "George Pell Investigation", 7.30 "Good Cop, Bad Cop", 60 Minutes "Money For Nothing", Four Corners
Most Outstanding Public Affairs Program Year Program NetworkRef 2003 Sunday The 7.30 Report Dateline Foreign Correspondent Lateline
Most Outstanding News Coverage or Public Affairs Report Year Program NetworkRef 2018 "The Siege", Four Corners "Don Burke Special", A Current Affair "Escape From Salt Creek", 60 Minutes "Haiti Uncovered", Sunday Night "Pumped", Four Corners 2019 "Out Of The Dark", Four Corners "James Comey Interview", 7.30 "Leadership Spill", Sky News "Townsville Flood Disaster", Seven News "Who Cares?", Four Corners 2022 "Brittany Higgins Interview", The Project "Nazi's Next Door", 60 Minutes "War In Ukraine", Seven News "Bursting The Canberra Bubble", Four Corners "Intimate Terrorism", Insight 2023 "Saving the Children", Foreign Correspondent "Turkey Earthquake", Seven News "Seaworld Helicopter Disaster", A Current Affair "Somalia: A Story of Survival", Foreign Correspondent "Do No Harm", Four Corners "How Many More", Four Corners
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