ANNOUNCING THE 2019 CAJ AWARDS FINALISTS
OTTAWA, April 6, 2020 /CNW/ – The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) is pleased to release the list of finalists for the 2019 CAJ Awards program.
Congratulations and a hearty félicitations to all finalists.
The original plan was to announce the recipients of each of the awards listed below at the CAJ’s annual conference, which had been set for Montreal at the end of May. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing restrictions, the conference has been cancelled.
The CAJ awards committee has been working on an alternate, online means of announcing and sharing the recipients of these awards for 2020. We will provide further details on this in the weeks ahead, but we will be announcing the recipients on the date of our originally scheduled awards gala, Saturday, May 30, 2020. This will include the announcement of the recipient of the McGillivray Award, which recognizes the most-deserving of the recipients in our seven investigative awards.
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 item submitted in the portfolio or series.
The finalists in the OPEN MEDIA category are:
Jean-François Cloutier, Jean-Louis Fortin, Hugo Joncas, Philippe Langlois, Félix Séguin, Andrea Valéria
Manquements éthiques et prêts douteux à la Caisse de dépôt
Le Journal de Montréal – Bureau d’enquête
Thomas Rohner
Freelancer / Toronto Star / CBC News – North
Wendy Gillis
Toronto Star
Ryan Thorpe
Winnipeg Free Press
The finalists in the COMMUNITY MEDIA category are:
Sally Pitt, Donna Allen
CBC News – Prince Edward Island
Katrina Clarke
A Shot in the Dark: New Brunswick school vaccination policies
The Daily Gleaner, Fredericton, N.B.
Étienne Fortin Gauthier, Rudy Chabannes
Un journal bilingue siphonne des fonds publics, tout en volant du contenu
ONFR+ / tfo
Grant Lafleche
The Standard, St. Catharines, Ont.
Michael Robinson, Mike Landry
Broken Homes (no link available)
The Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, N.B.
The finalists in the OPEN BROADCAST FEATURE category are:
Cullen Crozier, Brittany Guyot, Holly Moore
APTN Investigates
Trina Roache
APTN Investigates
Julie Ireton, Kristin Nelson
CBC News – Ottawa
Jean Balthazard, Daphnée Hacker-B., Matthew Joycey, Felipe Bello, Ève Lévesque
Tabloïd / Quebecor
The finalists in the OPEN BROADCAST NEWS category are:
Andreas Wesley, Diana Swain, Erica Johnson, Enza Uda, Jean-Francois Benoit, Naire Bahjat, Stephen Davis
Border Agents Alleged Misconduct
CBC News – Investigative unit
Devin Heroux, Dominique Banoun, Jamie Strashin, Jill English, Lori Ward, Michael Drapack
CBC News – Investigative unit
Avis Favaro, Elizabeth St.Philip, Andre Lapalme, Brett Mitchell, Anton Koschany
CTV – W5
Anton Koschany, Kevin Newman, Kathlene Calahan, Andre Lapalme, Kirk Neff, Brett Mitchell
CTV – W5
The finalists in the COMMUNITY BROADCAST category are:
Prajwala Dixit
Freelancer / CBC News – Newfoundland and Labrador
Carolyn Ray
Facing financial ruin to get a new lung, some are choosing to die instead
CBC News – Nova Scotia
Ashley Legassic, Kent Simmonds
You're Not Alone — A Deeper Look into Suicide
CFJC, Kamloops, B.C.
Gisèle Quenneville, Andréanne Baribeau, Aimé Majeau Beauchamp, Étienne Fortin-Gauthier, Joanne Belluco
ONFR+ / tfo
The finalists in the DATA JOURNALISM AWARD are:
Andreas Wesley, Anu Singh, Caitlin Taylor, Dan Taekema, David Common, Ellen Mauro, Jorge Barrera, Joseph Loiero, Sian Lloyd, Valerie Ouellet, David McKie
Peer-on-Peer Violence in Canadian Schools
CBC News
Inayat Singh, Naël Shiab, Romain Schué, Valérie Ouellet, Zach Dubinsky, Vincent Maisonneuve
Who's behind Canada's Most Active Airbnb Accounts?
CBC News / Radio-Canada – Investigative unit
Institute for Investigative Journalism and media partners
IIJ / Toronto Star / Global News / Le Devoir / Regina Leader-Post / National Observer
Philippe Langlois, Sarah-Maude Lefebvre, Andrea Valéria
Le Journal de Montréal – Bureau d’enquête
Bethanee Diamond, Ava Coulter, Ian Gibb, Piper MacDougall, Isabel Ruitenbeek, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Jane Sangster, Stacey Seward
The Signal / University of King’s College, Halifax / The Coast / Pictou Advocate / Port Hawkesbury Reporter
The finalists in the ONLINE MEDIA category are:
Craig Silverman
Buzzfeed News
Michelle Shephard, Kathleen Goldhar, Ilina Ghosh, Mitchell Stuart, Judy Ziyi Gu, Tanya Springer, Arif Noorani, Leslie Merklinger, Amy Husser
CBC News – Investigative podcasts
Tim Bousquet
The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun
Halifax Examiner
Sharon J. Riley
15-minute approvals: investigating the Alberta Energy Regulator
The Narwhal
Eilís Quinn
The Arctic Railway: Building a Future or Destroying a Culture?
Radio Canada International – Eye on the Arctic
The finalists in the PHOTOJOURNALISM category are:
Jesse Winter
2019 portfolio (no single link available)
Freelancer
Darryl Dyck
2019 portfolio (no single link available)
Freelancer / The Canadian Press
Valerian Mazataud
2019 portolio from three projects
Le Devoir / Globe and Mail
Amanda Annand
The pit of San Pedro: the life and death of a Canadian mine in Mexico
The Narwhal
The finalists in the SCOOP category are:
Debra Arbec
Montreal-based UN aviation agency tried to cover up 2016 cyberattack, documents show
CBC News – Montreal
Joanne Chianello, Jennifer Chevalier
Councillor asked job applicant about going braless, woman alleges
CBC News – Ottawa
Todd Battis
C-Section Scandal at The Moncton Hospital
CTV National News
Steven Chase, Robert Fife, Sean Fine
PMO pressed justice minister to abandon prosecution of SNC-Lavalin
The Globe and Mail
Dave Battagello
Windsor Star
The finalists in the DAILY EXCELLENCE category are:
Adrienne Arsenault, Briar Stewart
CBC News – The National
Paul Workman
CTV National News
Joe Belanger, Sebastian Bron, Max Martin, Joe Ruscitti, Greg Van Moorsel, Cheryl Chute, Robin Harvey, Bruce Urquhart, Megan Stacey, Jonathan Juha, Jennifer Bieman, Dale Carruthers, Dan Brown, Mike Hensen
Explosion rocks Old East Village neighbourhood
London Free Press
Blair Crawford, Elizabeth Payne, Kelly Egan, Jon Willing, Shaamini Yogaretnam, Taylor Blewett, Joanne Laucius, Wayne Cuddington, Julie Oliver
Ottawa Citizen
The finalists in the TEXT FEATURE category are:
Grant Robertson, Eric Atkins
The Globe and Mail
Angie Landry, Mélanie Picard
Radio-Canada – Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Que.
Nadine Yousif
Star Edmonton
Jessica Davey-Quantick
Up Here, Yellowknife, NWT
Melissa Martin
Winnipeg Free Press
The finalists in the JHR / CAJ AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING are:
Melissa Ridgen
APTN National News
Samantha Beattie
Filipino Children Exploited Daily For Pedophiles In Countries Like Canada
HuffPost Canada
Emma McIntosh, Mike De Souza
How Alberta kept Fort McKay First Nation in the dark about a toxic cloud from the oilsands
National Observer / Toronto Star
Mélissa Guillemette
Les personnes obèses sont-elles bien soignées?
Québec Science
Sarah Lawrynuik
Freelancer / Toronto Star
The finalists in the CWA CANADA / CAJ AWARD FOR LABOUR REPORTING are:
Timothy Sawa, Kimberly Ivany, Mark Kelley, Loretta Hicks, John Badcock
CBC News – The Fifth Estate
Eli Glasner
'I just broke down crying': Canadian video game creators face gruelling 'crunch' hours
CBC News – The National
Sarah Lawrynuik
'It's all worth it,' says couple who lost everything fighting for farm workers
Freelancer / CBC Radio One – The Doc Project
Kalli Anderson
Providing Care, Barely Getting By
Freelancer / thelocal.to
Brendan Kennedy
Toronto Star
The finalists in the JHR / CAJ EMERGING INDIGENOUS JOURNALIST AWARD are:
Rhiannon Johnson
CBC News – Indigenous
Jenna Dulewich
Rocky Mountain Outlook, Canmore, Alta.
Jamin Mike
The Tyee.ca / JHR emerging Indigenous reporter program
Chris Beaver
TVO.org / TVO Current Affairs and Documentaries
Jolene Banning
Freelancer / Various outlets
The finalists in the APTN / CAJ RECONCILIATION AWARD are:
Paul Webster
Freelancer / various publications
Christopher Curtis
Montreal Gazette
David P. Ball, Jenna Moon, Kevin Maimann
Jody Wilson-Raybould testimony was ‘Canada’s Indigenous constitution in action,’ say experts
Star Vancouver / Toronto Star / Star Edmonton
Jon Thompson
TVO Current Affairs
The finalists in the ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE category are:
Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs
Youth Perspectives on Climate Change
APTN National News
Sarah Leavitt
CBC News – Montreal
Nicoletta Dini, Lama Farhat
The Signal / University of King’s College, Halifax
Marco Chown Oved
Undeniable: Life and Death Under the Dome
Toronto Star
Moira Welsh
Undeniable: When the hard rains fall
Toronto Star
The finalists in the STUDENT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE are:
Oscar Beardmore-Gray, Melanie Woods, Annie Rueter, Ryan Patrick Jones, Abi Hayward, Rehmatullah Sheikh, Dustin Patar, Monique Rodrigues, Rithika Shenoy, Stephan Kroener
Hao Luo, Jonathan Ventura, Sebastian Romero Torres, Yuxian Wang, Shumin Wei, Dandan Dong, Thomas Smith, Cameron Bullen, Caroline Graham, Vito Zou, Paige Dean
The Fish You (Don't Know You) Eat
Global Reporting Program, University of British Columbia / NBC Nightly Films
Alannah Page, Huyana Cyprien, Curtis Larson
Left in the Cold: Canada’s First Internment Camps
Mount Royal University / Calgary Journal
Sarah Chew, Katie Swyers, Martha Currie, Stephanie Liu
RSJ Doc / Ryerson University
Trevor Green, Katie Li, Vartan Bzdikian, Daniel Drigo
RSJ Doc / Ryerson University
Zak Vescera
Canvas is tracking your data. What is UBC doing with it?
The Ubyssey / University of British Columbia
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 343 entries for the 2019 awards program.
We thank all those who submitted their work for consideration and congratulate the finalists listed above. Numerous judges once again commented on the astounding quality of work submitted for consideration, as our industry continues to face ongoing challenges— including the extreme challenges we’re facing at this moment.
The Canadian Association of Journalists is a professional organization with over 700 members across Canada. The CAJ’s primary roles are public-interest advocacy work and professional development for its members.
For further information:
Karyn Pugliese, CAJ president – cell, 204-995-1071, [email protected]
Jason Markusoff, CAJ Awards committee co-chair, [email protected]
Terra Tailleur, CAJ Awards committee co-chair, [email protected]
