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Indigenous Award
Thursday, 14 August, 2008
Emma Cook
Living Black Video Journalist Emma Cook has taken out an award at this year's National Press Club of Australia Excellence in Health Journalism Award.
Cook won the best Documentary, or Documentary series division for her "A Hollow Vision" story, which examined the surge in the infectious eye disease trachoma in the Northern Territory.
"This is just another example of the quality and enterprise of our video journalists", said SBS Director of News & Current Affairs Paul Cutler.
Earlier this year, Cook traveled to the Katherine West region of the Northern Territory, where the infectious eye disease is slowly on the rise.
Trachoma is one of the oldest diseases known to humankind. It's a type of chlymidia spread when a person comes in contact with discharge from an infected person's eye.
Find out more about trachoma here
Have Your Say: Should governments target individual diseases like Trachoma or focus on improving overall Indigenous living standards?
Cook won the best Documentary, or Documentary series division for her "A Hollow Vision" story, which examined the surge in the infectious eye disease trachoma in the Northern Territory.
"This is just another example of the quality and enterprise of our video journalists", said SBS Director of News & Current Affairs Paul Cutler.
Earlier this year, Cook traveled to the Katherine West region of the Northern Territory, where the infectious eye disease is slowly on the rise.
Trachoma is one of the oldest diseases known to humankind. It's a type of chlymidia spread when a person comes in contact with discharge from an infected person's eye.
Find out more about trachoma here
Have Your Say: Should governments target individual diseases like Trachoma or focus on improving overall Indigenous living standards?
