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Jarni Blakkarly


Investigative journalist

Jarni Blakkarly 2021

About Jarni

I started journalism at the Malaysian online news organisation Malaysiakini in 2013, before returning to Australia to study a Bachelor of Communications (Journalism) at RMIT in Melbourne.

Before joining CHOICE, I worked for four years with SBS News as investigative journalist, digital journalist, cadet and South Australian correspondent.

I've worked internationally in Malaysia and Indonesia and on a freelance basis for Al Jazeera English, ABC 730, Radio National, Reuters, BBC World Service and Deutsche Welle.

I was winner of the Walkley Foundation's Young Journalist of the Year student category award in 2016, a Highly Commended finalist in the 2023 Quill Awards and the 2022 Excellence in Civil Liberties Journalism Awards, and the winner of a Melbourne Press Club Michael Gordon Fellowship in 2022.

I am a proud member of the journalist's union the MEAA.

You can find me on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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