Former Millicent journalist Brooke Littlewood has been recognised by the National Press Club of Australia with the annual Caroline Jones Award.

As a 20-year-old cadet journalist in her home town in 2013, she was named as the Young Employee of the Year by the Millicent Business Community Association (MBCA) when it staged its third annual Outstanding Business Awards.

Ms Littlewood was the 2019 Young Journalist of the Year for the Country Press Association of South Australia.

She is currently writing for Farm Weekly in Perth.

Farm Weekly is the largest-selling rural paper in WA and her role involves enormous travel, resilience and self-sufficiency.

Her winning entry contained long-form and in-depth explorations of the complex challenges of life on the land today.

Ms Littlewood has also displayed a strong and ongoing personal commitment to improving mental health outcomes in regional and rural Australia, designing drink coasters for greater awareness to be distributed widely across clubs and sporting bodies.

The award is named in honour of Caroline Jones AO, a ground-breaking journalist who joined the ABC in 1963 and became the first female reporter for This Day Tonight.