Finalists named for BC’s Annual Journalism Awards
A selection of BC’s best journalists have been named as finalists for the 2016 Jack Webster Awards. Winners will be announced at the 30th annual Jack Webster Awards dinner on Wednesday, October 20 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver.
Shelley Fralic will receive the 2016 Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award and will feature Peter Mansbridge, CBC’s Chief Correspondent and Host of The National.
The 2016 Jack Webster Awards Finalists are:
Best News Reporting of the Year – Print
- Laura Kane
The Canadian Press
Campus Sex Assaults
- Kathy Tomlinson
The Globe and Mail
Real Estate Wild West
- Sarah Petrescu, Carla Wilson, Katherine Dedyna, Bill Cleverley, Louise Dickson, Richard Watts, Lindsay Kines, Jeff Bell, Les Leyne, Jack Knox, Cindy E. Harnett, Bruce Stotesbury and Darren Stone
Times Colonist
Victoria’s Tent City
Best News Reporting of the Year – Radio
- Bob Keating
CBC Nelson
Season of Fire
- Megan Thomas
CBC Radio News
Tragedy off Tofino
- Wil Fundal, Stephanie Mercier, Robert Doane, Chris Corday
CBC/Radio-Canada
When Mountains Move
Presented in memory of Keith Bradbury
- Eric Rankin, Yvette Brend
CBC Vancouver News
Metis Adoption
- Belle Puri, Chris Brown, Chis Corday, Dan Burritt, Eric Rankin, Glen Kugelstadt, Johanna Wagstaffe, Mike McArthur, Richard Zussman, Susana da Silva
CBC Vancouver News
Tofino Leviathan II sinking
- St. John Alexander and Mi-Jung Lee
CTV Vancouver
Westjet Harassment Investigation
Best Feature Story – Print
- Justine Hunter
The Globe and Mail
Greenpeace, a history
- J.B. MacKinnon
Hakai Magazine
The Whale Dying on the Mountain
- Jane Seyd
North Shore News
The New Gold Rush
Best Feature Story – Radio
- Catherine Rolfsen, Bal Brach, Alison Broddle, Rick Cluff, Stephen Quinn, Theresa Duvall, Shiral Tobin, Lee Rosevere
CBC Vancouver
Finding Refuge
- Jean Paetkau, Robyn Burns, Kirstie Hudson
CBC Radio Victoria
A Loss of Innocence
- Elaine Chau, Manusha Janakiram, Lee Rosevere
CBC Radio One
Wui Gwai: Hong Kong Homecoming
Best Feature Story – Television
- Adam Sawatsky, Brendan Strain
CTV News Vancouver Island
Bus Boy
- Duncan McCue, Doug Trent, Denis Grenier
CBC TV
Hooker Monologues
- Sonia Deol, Tony Clark, Ted Anhorn
Global News
Remembering Maple Batalia
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Digital Journalism
- Andrea Woo
The Globe and Mail
Fentanyl’s Deadly Path
- Alison Broddle, Tamara Baluja, Catherine Rolfsen, Bal Brach and the CBC.ca/BC web team
CBC News
Finding Refuge: Meet some of the Syrian Refugees
- Jon Woodward, Kendra Mangione
CTV Vancouver
Where the kids are
Endowed by Jean Cormier
- Travis Lupick
The Georgia Straight
Confidential documents reveal B.C.’s new minimum wage was one big mistake
- Jeremy Allingham
CBC Radio / cbc.ca
Hopped Up: Competition, challenges and change in B.C.’s craft beer industry
- Mike Hager
The Globe and Mail
Medical Marijuana
Best Reporting – Chinese Language
- Clement Tang
Fairchild Television Magazine 26
BC Drug Overdose
- Jose Ng, Kelvin Chung, Aiken Lau, Edward Liu, Andy Cheung, Edward Chun
CHMB AM1320
Home Affordability
- Spencer Gall
Fairchild Television Magazine 26
How Can I Let Go?
Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting
- Don Descoteau, Dan Ebenal, Pamela Roth, Arnold Lim, Don Denton
Goldstream News Gazette
Sewage in the CRD
- Jessica Klymchuk
Kamloops This Week
Transcendent: When Darrin became Deanna
- Tim Petruk
Kamloops This Week
Triumph & Tragedy: The Rudy Poeschek Story
Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia
- Kim Bolan
The Vancouver Sun
Jail Violence on the Rise
- Tamsyn Burgmann
The Canadian Press
Not Criminally Responsible
- Stephen Hume
The Vancouver Sun
Province Failed The Public By Withholding Water Test Data
Sponsored by Genome British Columbia
- Duncan McCue, James Roberts, Glen Kugelstadt
CBC TV
Bill’s Place
- Francis Plourde, Pierre Beaudoin, Harold Dupuis
Le Semaine Verte, Radio-Canada/The National, CBC
How the high demand for almonds is affecting California
- Alberto Mendoza-Galina, Keith Rozendal, Clea Machold, Katelyn Verstraten, Peter Klein, Gary Marcuse
Global Reporting Centre
Milliondollarmeds Rare Diseases in Canada
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
- Winner will be announced at the Jack Webster Awards Dinner
Bill Good Award
- The recipient will be announced later in September
Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
- Shelley Fralic