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Veteran reporter Sean Dorney (pictured) has given his name to a $10,000 journalism grant, to be awarded annually by the Walkley Foundation commencing in 2019. Walkley Foundation chief executive Louisa Graham announced the grant at the Walkley Fund for Journalism Dinner in Sydney on April 5, with Sean Dorney present. Graham said: “Having recognised Sean’s outstanding contribution to journalism at last year’s Walkley Awards, we were very aware of his decades of inimitable work in the Pacific.

Global socially-led creative agency We Are Social has created a dedicated microsite acknowledging hero moments of the past decade in social media. Including socially-driven moments like #JeSuisCharlie and #MeToo, the site is designed to recognise the increasing impact of social media on global culture. Check out the site here. It showcases the work of 10 artists commissioned by We Are Social to create original artworks, each representing a year between 2008 and 2017.

Media management platform Hootsuite and We Are Social, the global socially-led creative agency, have released Digital in 2018, a report of social media and digital trends around the world. You can download a copy of the report here. Representing 239 countries and territories, the seventh annual report finds the number of internet users in the world has now surpassed the 4 billion mark, putting more than half the global population online.