Congratulations to the 2017 CAJ Awards finalists!
OTTAWA, March 29, 2018 – The Canadian Association of Journalists is pleased to announce many of the finalists for its annual awards for outstanding investigative journalism in Canada published or broadcast in 2017.
The recipients in each category will be announced May 5 at the CAJ Awards gala and conference banquet in Toronto, part of the #CAJ18 annual conference at the Hyatt Regency Toronto.
Delegates registering for the full conference (May 4-5) in most registration categories get a banquet ticket as part of their registration. Standalone tickets are also available at a cost of $69. Register and purchase tickets today via the conference registration page. Early bird rates for the conference run until April 27.
Awards finalists registering for the conference – either one-day plus gala or full conference – are automatically eligible for a 25 per cent discount off the relevant fee. If your organization wants to send more than five finalists to the conference, a similar discount is available. Contact us to confirm eligibility and register.
Please note the media outlet listed is where the finalist worked at the time the entry was broadcast/published or where the particular entry was broadcast/published. Finalists are listed alphabetically by media outlet. Links, where available, have been provided in the titles of the finalists’ entries; for series or portfolios, the linked item is the first.
The finalists in the OPEN MEDIA category are:
Michele Jarvie
Can the Sad, Short Life of One Boy Save Others?
Calgary Herald
Charles Rusnell, Jennie Russell
CBC News Edmonton
Rachel Mendleson, Lynn McAuley, Jon Ohayon, Anne Marie Jackson, Tania Pereira, Brian Liu, Cameron Tulk, David Schnitman, Fadi Yaacoub, Linda Guerriero, Lynette Fortune, Mark Kelley, Loretta Hicks, Hans Vanderzande, Jim Williamson, Julian Sher, John Chipman, Kathleen Goldhar, Elizabeth Hoath, Susan Ormiston
CBC Radio – The Current, CBC The Fifth Estate, The Toronto Star
Andrew Duffy
Fire and Death in the Ottawa Valley
Ottawa Citizen
Laura Kane, Geordon Omand, Joanna Smith, Sidhartha Banerjee, Paola Loriggio, Lucas Timmons, Kevin Ward
Jordan Decision – One Year Later
The Canadian Press
The finalists in the COMMUNITY MEDIA category are:
Cullen Bird
Fort McMurray Today
Michael Robinson
New Brunswick’s Sidelined Ambulances
Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, N.B.
Jackie Jardine, Steve Goodwin, Heather Brimicombe
The Advocate, Pictou County, N.S.
Travis Lupick, Alexander Kim
Rising violence in Vancouver hospitals
The Georgia Straight / Cited Podcast
The finalists in the OPEN BROADCAST FEATURE category are:
Holly Moore
APTN Investigates
Rob Smith
APTN Investigates
Harvey Cashore, Kimberly Ivany, Gillian Findlay, Loretta Hicks, Frederic Zalac, Martyne Bourdeau
CBC News: The Fifth Estate
Shiral Tobin, Johanna Wagstaffe, Polly Leger, Lee Rosevere
CBC News – Vancouver
Sam Fenn, Alexander B. Kim, Travis Lupick
Cited Podcast / The Georgia Straight
The finalists in the OPEN BROADCAST NEWS category are:
Kathleen Martens, Paul Barnsley, Holly Moore
APTN Investigates
Nahlah Ayed, Stephanie Jenzer, Richard Devey
CBC News – The National
Margaret Evans, Lily Martin, Richard Devey
CBC News – The World this Weekend and The National
Patrick McGuire, Tania Natscheff, Michael Gruzuk, Ben Makuch, Mia Sheldon, Sofi Langis
The Soldiers of Odin: Inside Canada’s Extremist Vigilante Group
VICE News
The finalists in the COMMUNITY BROADCAST category are:
Dean Stoltz
CHEK News, Victoria, B.C.
Abigail Bimman
CTV News Kitchener
The finalists in the CAJ DATA JOURNALISM AWARD are:
Francesca Fionda, Emma Jones, Caitlin Havlak, Katie Lewis, Rachel Nixon
In search of Canada’s elusive shadow population
Discourse Media
Drake Fenton, Elizabeth Payne, Aedan Helmer
Ottawa Citizen
Robyn Doolittle, Michael Pereira, Jeremy Agius, Laura Blenkinsop
The Globe and Mail
Grant Robertson and Tom Cardoso
The Globe and Mail
Gordon Hoekstra
Political contributions & influence – BC
Vancouver Sun
The finalists in the ONLINE MEDIA category are:
Elizabeth Thompson
Aga Khan island that hosted Trudeau owned by company with offshore ties, records show
CBC News
Geoff Leo
CBC News Saskatchewan
Nicolas Mesly, Hugo Jolion-David
Huffington Post Quebec
Mike De Souza
Inside the National Energy Board
National Observer
The finalists in the PHOTOJOURNALISM category are:
Ed Ou
Portfolio drawn from Children of a Poisoned River
CBC News
Nick Iwanyshyn
2017 porfolio
Freelancer
Darryl Dyck
B.C. Wildfires portfolio
Freelancer / The Canadian Press
Steve Russell
2017 portfolio
Toronto Star
The finalists in the SCOOP category are:
Willow Fidler, Kenneth Jackson
APTN News
Janice Johnston
‘I’m the victim and … I’m in shackles’: The Angela Cardinal story
CBC News Edmonton
Erica Johnson, James Roberts, Amar Parmar, Dave Pizer, Karen Burgess
CBC News Go Public
Steven Chase, Robert Fife
The Globe and Mail
Grant Robertson
The Globe and Mail
The finalists in the DAILY EXCELLENCE category are:
Kenneth Jackson
Three First Nations girls died in Ontario group homes in last 6 months
APTN National News
Rebecca Collard
The fall of Kirkuk
Freelancer / CBC News
Carl Meyer
Grumblings become cheers as Trudeau names Mona Nemer as chief scientist
National Observer
Gordon Hoekstra
BC wildfires – Tl’etinqox First Nation is staying
Vancouver Sun
Jane Gerster
Board stacked against assisted dying
Winnipeg Free Press
The finalists in the TEXT FEATURE category are:
Lindsay Jones
What happened to Lionel Desmond? An Afghanistan veteran whose war wouldn’t end
Freelancer / The Globe and Mail
Alison Motluk
Hazlitt Magazine
Michael Friscolanti
The Russian spies who raised us
Maclean’s
Vito Pilieci
How solar-energy dreams became a nightmare for the small Ontario town of Blind River
Ottawa Citizen
Betty Ann Adam
How I lost my mother, found my family, recovered my identity
The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Sask.
The finalists in the JHR / CAJ AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING are:
Cullen Crozier
APTN Investigates
Trina Roache
APTN Investigates
Joseph Loiero, Habiba Nosheen, Kimberly Ivany, Aileen McBride, Valerie Ouellet
CBC News – The Fifth Estate
Adrienne Arsenault, Sylvia Thomson, Jean-François Bisson, Brenda Witmer, Andre Mayer
The short life and complicated death of Kristita Padual
CBC News – The National
Marc Ellison, Didier Kassai
Freelancers / Huffington Post Canada
The finalists in the JHR / CAJ EMERGING INDIGENOUS JOURNALIST AWARD will be announced next week.
The finalists in the CWA CANADA / CAJ AWARD FOR LABOUR REPORTING are:
Kathleen Martens
APTN Investigates
Mick Sweetman
Freelance / Briarpatch Magazine
Jacques Marcoux, Kristin Annable, Vera-Lynn Kubinec, Joanne Levasseur, Katie Nicholson
CBC News
Tavia Grant
Investigation: It can now be called the deadliest industry in Canada
The Globe and Mail
Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Brendan Kennedy, Randy Risling, Frances Kelly, Kevin Donovan, Natasha Grzincic, Cameron Tulk, David Schnitman, Erin Nespoli, Andy Bailey, Tania Pereira, Brian Liu
Toronto Star
The finalists in the APTN / CAJ RECONCILIATION AWARD are:
Piya Chattopadhyay, Brian Coulton, Debbie Pacheco, Lisa Bryn Rundle, Sam Colbert
CBC Radio – Out in the Open
Kristin Nelson, Josh Bloch, Kathleen Goldhar
I want to understand – Ottawa police sergeant openly apologizes for racist comments
CBC Radio – The Current
Amitha Kalaichandran, Chelsea Jane Edwards
A youth driven movement remakes Attawapiskat
Maclean’s
Nancy Macdonald
Maclean’s
Jon Thompson
TVO Northwestern Ontario Hub
The finalists in the STUDENT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE are:
Shrinkhala Dawadi, Julia Dick
‘It doesn’t matter because it didn’t happen on campus’
McGill Tribune / McGill University, Montreal, Que.
Ashley King, Karina Yaceyko
Mount Royal University / Calgary Journal
Jolene Rudisuela, Amy Simpson, Lexi Wright
Mount Royal University / Calgary Journal
Seher Asaf, Francesca Bianco, Yusheng Cai, Taranjit Dhillon, Sophie Gray, Haley Lewis, Emma Loy, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Alex Migdal, Sharon Nadeem, Andrew Seal, Anya Zoledziowski, Rohit Joseph, Jaione Belza Guede, Duncan McCue, Kathryn Gretsinger, Chantelle Bellrichard
University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Vancouver, B.C.
Faisal Ali, Eleanor Davidson, Jessica Durling, Lexi Harrington, Madi Haslam, Caora McKenna, Alex Myrick, John Sandham, Matt Scrimshaw, Julianne Steeves, Menglu Xu
University of King’s College, Halifax, N.S. / The Signal / The Coast
Categories not announced in today’s release should be announced on Monday, April 2, 2018.
Consistent with information in the entry package instructions, judges had the discretion to name between one and five finalists in each award category. There were a total 284 entries for the 2017 awards program.
The Canadian Association of Journalists is a professional organization with about 600 members across Canada. The CAJ’s primary roles are public-interest advocacy work and professional development for its members.
For further information:
Nick Taylor-Vaisey, CAJ president – 647-968-2393 cell, nick@caj.ca
Hugo Rodrigues, Awards committee chair – hugo@caj.ca
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