WINNIPEG, May 6, 2019 / CNW / The Canadian Association of Journalists is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 CAJ Awards for outstanding investigative journalism.
This included presenting the McGillivray Award to Laura Kane and Aleksandra Sagan of The Canadian Press, who won the year’s top investigative prize for their entry Contagion: Edging closer to a world without antibiotics. The entry looked at the challenge of how to deal with antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can maim and kill.
Contagion was also recognized as the recipient in the Open Media category earlier in the evening.
The awards were presented at the conclusion of the 2019 CAJ conference, held at the Radisson Hotel in Winnipeg, during the awards gala MC’d by Tim Fontaine.
The recipients in the OPEN MEDIA category are:
Laura Kane, Aleksandra Sagan
Contagion: Edging closer to a world without antibiotics
The Canadian Press
The recipient in the COMMUNITY MEDIA category is:
Grant LaFleche
The Standard, St. Catharines, Ont.
The recipients in the OPEN BROADCAST FEATURE category are:
Julie Ireton, Jennifer Chevalier
CBC News – Ottawa
The recipients in the OPEN BROADCAST NEWS category are:
Laurie Hamelin, Kathleen Martens
APTN National News
The recipient in the COMMUNITY BROADCAST category is:
Nick Murray
CBC News – Iqualuit
The recipients in the DATA JOURNALISM AWARD are:
David Common, Melissa Mancini, Katie Pedersen, Valerie Ouellet, David McKie
CBC Marketplace
The recipients in the ONLINE MEDIA category are:
Jon Milton, Erin Seatter, Ethan Cox
Ricochet Media
The recipient in the PHOTOJOURNALISM category is:
Aaron Vincent Elkaim
The Narwhal
The recipients in the SCOOP category are:
Erica Johnson, Enza Uda, Alison Downie, Amar Parmar
CBC News – Go Public
The recipients in the DAILY EXCELLENCE category are:
Team entry
The Canadian Press
The recipient in the TEXT FEATURE category is:
Amy Dempsey
The Toronto Star
The recipients in the JHR / CAJ AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING are:
Team entry
CBC News – Indigenous / CBC News – Saskatchewan
The recipient of the JHR / CAJ EMERGING INDIGENOUS JOURNALIST AWARD is:
Kyle Edwards
Maclean’s Magazine
The recipients in the CWA CANADA / CAJ AWARD FOR LABOUR REPORTING are:
Verity Stevenson, Jaela Bernstien, Jessica Rubinger, Jean-Philippe Robillard, Daniel Boily, Antoni Nerestant, Meeker Guerrier
How a Haitian asylum seeker was swept up in a shadowy industry of temp agency work
CBC News – Montreal
The recipient in the APTN / CAJ RECONCILIATION AWARD is:
Catou MacKinnon
CBC News – Quebec
The recipients in the STUDENT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE are:
Amber McLinden, Rayane Sabbagh, Simran Sachar
Mount Royal University, Calgary
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 341 entries for the 2018 awards program.
The CAJ congratulates all the recipients and finalists and thanks all those who submitted entries for consideration. Many judges once again noted the excellent quality and breadth of work contained within the entries submitted into the program.
Journalists continue to produce striking, important and meaningful work that educates, informs, exposes, uncovers, affects change and makes our communities better places to live. The CAJ is proud to play a small role in recognizing the best of this work on an annual basis.
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:
Brent Jolly, CAJ19 conference chair, brent@caj.ca
Karyn Pugliese, CAJ president – 204-995-1071, karyn@caj.ca
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