The Nine Television Network has requested its annual scholarship to a Charles Sturt University (CSU) communications student be renamed the Richard Carleton Memorial Scholarship. The veteran Nine Network journalist died while covering the rescue of the Beaconsfield gold miners in Tasmania. “One of the attributes that the School of Communication journalism course instils in its students is the need to ask the hard questions and to probe beyond the obvious facts of news,” said the Head of the CSU School of Communication, Associate Professor Tom Watson. “Richard Carleton was a master of this skill and unlocked many major stories, so the School welcomes the decision by Channel Nine to rename its scholarship for journalism students after one of Australia’s leading investigative journalists. It further cements a long and very productive relationship between Channel Nine and the School of Communication,” Associate Professor Watson said.