SUPPORTING AUSTRALIA’S MOST EXCITING AUDIO STORYTELLERS

The Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship is a $15,000 cash fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian resident pushing innovative audio storytelling. This fellowship will provide a career-defining opportunity for a mid-tier practitioner to accelerate their career.

The fellowship has been established in honour of our friend and colleague Jesse Cox. It will continue Jesse’s determination to strengthen the Australian audio community, to push audio storytelling in form, to produce work that can be shared with a public audience and to amplify underrepresented voices.

Fellowship alumni include journalist Patrick Abboud (2019), who spent the year developing his 8-part investigative series The Greatest Menace, which won a 2022 Walkley Award and multiple awards at the 2022 New York Festival’s World Radio Awards, including Gold for Best Social Justice Podcast.

Jay Ooi (2021) used the fellowship to develop his long form audio storytelling skills and grew the audience for his podcast Shoes Off, which won Gold for Smartest Podcast at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards.

Christine ‘Kix’ Mwaturura (2022) produced season two of Private Affairs, which topped the charts in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Kenya and Zimbabwe.

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