The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age won several Kennedy Awards for excellence in journalism on Friday night as Nick McKenzie, investigative reporter for both mastheads and Channel Nine, took out the journalist of the year honour for a second time.

More than 400 people gathered at Royal Randwick in Sydney to see McKenzie take out the gong again, after he won it in 2020.

McKenzie and Joel Tozer also won the outstanding finance reporting for The Fallen Star for both mastheads and 60 Minutes, while Tozer and Adele Ferguson claimed the outstanding consumer affairs reporting award for Bad Look: Exposing the dark underbelly of the cosmetic surgery industry, also on 60 Minutes.

Ferguson, Lauren Day and Klaus Toft won the outstanding investigative reporting honour for Cosmetic Cowboys, a joint production for the ABC’s Four Corners and Nine publications.

The Herald’s state political editor Alexandra Smith and state political reporter Lucy Cormack claimed the outstanding political reporting award for their coverage of the John Barilaro New York trade posting saga.

Tim Elliott from the Good Weekend won the Jim Oram Award for outstanding feature writing for Knives Out.

Megan Herbert from The Age won the Vince O’Farrell Award for outstanding cartoon for Big week for SCOTUS.

Channel Seven commentator Bruce McAvaney was honoured with the outstanding lifetime achievement award.

The awards are named in honour of Sydney crime reporter Les Kennedy, who died in 2011 at the age of 53.

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