Central News is a multi-platform news service based at the University of Technology Sydney. It is where journalism students put theory into practice by producing text, audio and video stories ranging from breaking news to interactive features.
The site won the JERAA ‘Publication of the Year’ award for student news websites in 2019, 2020 and 2023. Its reporters have also won the Walkley Awards’ ‘Student Journalist of the Year’ prize in 2021, 2022 and 2024, the Kennedys’ Student Journalist of the Year in 2024 and have been honoured in the NSW Premier’s Multicultural Media Awards and Democracy’s Watchdogs Award.
Stories published on Central News are open source and can be reproduced on other websites provided the author is credited, a link to the original story is included and the text is not altered.
Editor and publisher: Martin Newman.
Contact: martin.newman@uts.edu.au