Judges for 2023

Arts and Entertainment

Ingrid Bejerman is a journalist, scholar and cultural manager specializing in cultural reportage, Latin American matters and journalism training. She served as reporter and columnist for O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazil, as program coordinator for the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for Journalism in Colombia, and as director of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. Ingrid teaches communication studies, research methods and journalistic theory and practice at Concordia University in Montreal.

David Gutnick worked as a documentary producer at CBC Radio for 36 years. He  recently published Correcting Mandel: Why Arming Ukraine is the Road to Peace in Canadian Dimension magazine.  His most recent audio book for children is No Nothing No Everything.  David lives in Montreal.

Lisa Yeung is an award-winning digital journalist with almost 25 years of content and strategy experience in lifestyle, news and video. She helped launch the first international edition of The Huffington Post in Canada, and was HuffPost Canada’s interim editor-in-chief, as well as managing editor of the award-winning LIFE and Perspectives teams for almost a decade. Lisa is currently teaching and learning from the next generation of journalists at Centennial College in Toronto.

Joan Hollobon Award for Beat Reporting

Raffy Boudjikanian is a senior reporter with the CBC’s Parliamentary bureau in Ottawa, often covering the biggest political headlines of the day on national television and radio newscasts. Prior to working on the Hill, he was stationed in Edmonton and Calgary, also covering national news for the public broadcaster. Raffy got his start in the industry in Montreal, first working at the West Island Chronicle, and then CBC Montreal in local news. He has also written a non-fiction book, Journey through Genocide: Stories of Survivors and the Dead, detailing his travels to Chad, Rwanda and Turkey, where he interviewed a number of genocide survivors and their descendants, and published an essay, “The Road to Belonging,” in the anthology We Are All Armenian last year. 

Katherine Monk is a best-selling author, filmmaker and journalist who began her career as a general news reporter at the Vancouver Sun in 1990, and ended it as a national film critic for Postmedia/Canwest News Service in 2015. Author of Weird Sex & Snowshoes – And Other Canadian Film Phenomena , and more recently, Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell , she set out to better understand the idiosyncrasies of Canadian culture and to celebrate our differences. A long-time contributor to CBC Radio, she surveys films on the air and doodles for a website that celebrates the writings of retired editors, ex-press.ca.

Loreen Pindera retired from CBC News in 2020, after 36 years as a reporter and editor in Thunder Bay, Winnipeg and Montreal. She is the co-author, with Geoffrey York, of People of the Pines: The Warriors and the Legacy of Oka. An avid triathlete, she writes about her sport for Triathlon Magazine Canada.

Stuart M. Robertson Award for Breaking News

Jennifer Ditchburn is the president and CEO of the Institute for Research on Public Policy, one of Canada’s oldest and most trusted think tanks. From 2016-2021, she was editor in chief of the IRPP’s digital magazine, Policy Options. Prior to joining the IRPP, Jennifer spent two decades covering national and parliamentary affairs for the Canadian Press and for CBC Television. She is the winner of three National Newspaper Awards and the recipient of the prestigious Charles Lynch Award for outstanding coverage of national issues.

Shannon Miller is a former journalist who worked for two decades in small, medium and large newsrooms in B.C. She held every newsroom role imaginable (and some unimaginable), including managing editor and senior news editor at the Vancouver Province. Shannon currently manages media relations for Canada’s largest credit union, Vancity, and writes about seaweed.

Fred Vallance-Jones is an associate professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, where he specializes in investigations and data journalism and teaches in the master of journalism program. He is an NNA winner for investigations and a Michener Award nominee. His reporting career spanned 23 years, at the CBC and Hamilton Spectator. He is co-author of three journalism textbooks.

Business

Natalie Clancy is an award-winning journalist and director of corporate communications with the Toronto Police Service. Prior to this role, she was director of public affairs and communications at the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists and director of communication at Unifor. She spent 25 years reporting for CBC News across Canada in Halifax, Calgary, St. John’s and Vancouver. Her investigative reporting has won four CAJ awards, three Webster Awards, four Atlantic Journalism Awards, several RTDNA awards, a digital publishing award and a Canadian Screen Award.

Jaren Kerr edits and writes news stories for the Financial Times in New York. His work is focused on US financial markets, but he writes about Canada’s economy at every opportunity. He worked at the Globe and Mail, Yahoo Finance, Canadaland and the Toronto Star before moving stateside in 2022. He won a National Newspaper Award with a team in the Politics category in 2020, and was a finalist with a team in the Business category in 2021. 

Nancy Knowlton spent 30 years living in Geneva, Switzerland, working in communications and multi-stakeholder engagement. She was an editor and chief of staff at the World Economic Forum. Since her return to Canada, she has been chief of staff at Calgary Economic Development and is actively volunteering with organizations such as Rotary Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Junior Achievement, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Stampede, Meals on Wheels and the Humane Society.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary Award for Columns

Sophie Gaulin has been executive director and editor-in-chief of La Liberté since 2009. Born in France, she studied Canadian civilization at the University of Bordeaux, where she developed a keen interest in Canada. She taught English in school and business settings for eight years. In 2006, she settled permanently in Winnipeg.

Adrian Harewood is a professor of journalism at Carleton University. He was the anchor of CBC Ottawa News at Six for 13 years, and received a Canadian Screen Award. He was host of the CBC Ottawa drive-home show All in a Day and the programs The Actors, Literati and The Directors as seen on BRAVO and PBS.  He sits on the editorial board of the University of Ottawa Press, and is a board member of Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) and The Writers’ Trust of Canada. 

Karen Macdonald is station director/manager of Global News in Montreal. An anglophone from Quebec, she is passionate about the role journalism plays in protecting democracy. She is an NNA judge because it allows her to assess the exceptional quality of journalism practiced daily in Canada. Her claim to fame is having been director and publisher for more than 10 years of the oldest newspaper in North America, the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

Editorial Cartooning

Jack Aubry worked as a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen for more than a quarter-century, mostly as a national writer on Parliament Hill, after serving as the Outaouais bureau chief and covering Ottawa city hall. He won a National Newspaper Award for Investigations in 1990. He recently retired as director of consultations and media relations for Finance Canada.

Catherine Boucek is president of QuickSeries, a mobile app, and content developer for the military and the U.S. government. Previously, she spent over 25 years working in digital media for Southam/ Canwest/Postmedia, starting as an online copywriter, then leading national digital copywriting projects including Olympic and election websites. She also led strategic content teams across Canada as production manager for Postmedia Content Works.

Okenge Yuma Morisho has been a public servant for 25 years. He has significant experience in public policy development and implementation at the federal and provincial levels, and has held several executive positions in Ottawa and Victoria.

Claude Ryan Award for Editorials

Caroline Chan has worked as a radio producer for CBC Vancouver since 2017. She produces audio and video segments for CBC Radio One’s On The Coast, available on CBC Listen and on streaming channels on Roku TV, YouTube, Apple TV, and other CBC owned-and-operated platforms. As a teenager, Caroline went on a volunteering spree, which landed her at the local university radio station. She kept coming back to radio over the years before realizing that this might make for a really good job. She has worked across the country and abroad in various roles including radio host, television news writer and show producer. Her work has been recognized by the RTDNA. She still thinks this is a really good job.

Michael Cooke is former editor-in-chief of the Toronto Star, Vancouver Province, Chicago Sun-Times and New York Daily News. He is currently chair of Journalists for Human Rights.

Carole Graveline is director of community engagement and partnerships at McGill University. Before that she was a reporter for Radio-Canada for many years, breaking exclusive stories on contaminated blood in Canada as well as conditions in a mental-health hospital that brought national inquiries. She is author of a history of AIDS in Quebec and a past winner of an award from the Michener Foundation for reporting in the public interest.

Explanatory Work

Stephen Bindman is a visiting professor and executive in residence at the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) at the University of Ottawa. He recently retired after 25 years as a senior policy advisor at the Department of Justice Canada. Prior to that, he was national legal affairs correspondent for Southam News and was president of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Athana Mentzelopoulos works for the Government of Alberta as a deputy minister in the office of the Official Administrator of Alberta Health Services. She has spent most of her career in government at both the federal and provincial levels. She has also worked as vice-president of government relations at the Canadian Credit Union Association.

Valérie Ouellet is an investigative reporter with CBC News in Toronto. She focuses on data-driven storytelling, often reporting on women’s health, Canada’s carceral system and social injustices. She has won a CAJ Data Journalism Award, an Amnesty International Media Award and the prestigious St. Clair Balfour Fellowship in 2022. She also teaches data journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University and mentors early-career journalists through the Canadian Association of Journalists.

Feature Photo

Phil Carpenter has worked as a photojournalist for over 20 years, including 13 years at the Montreal Gazette, and since 2017 he has been a reporter and video reporter for Global News in Montreal. He taught photojournalism and visual journalism at Concordia University for more than 10 years, helping to develop studies for the institution’s visual journalism degree. In 2009, Phil spent a month in Rwanda teaching multimedia journalism as part of a training program for professional journalists. He is the author of Breast Stories , a book that addresses issues of femininity and female identity through the portrait of over 50 women across Canada who have had a mastectomy.

Julie Matus is a photographer, editor and director of photography whose career has spanned over 25 years with award-winning photographers and journalists. She has worked for the London Free Press, The Canadian Press, Weekly Scoop, GTA Today, Metro Toronto, Torstar’s New Ventures and was the director of photography for Zoomer magazine for over seven years.

Steve Simon is an award-winning documentary photographer and author of five critically acclaimed photography books. He has worked on assignment in more than 40 countries, and his work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Life, Time, Le Monde, Harpers, Maclean’s, the Walrus and many other publications. Steve worked for 10 years as a staff photographer for the Edmonton Journal, and was professor/co-ordinator of the Loyalist College photojournalism program.

Norman Webster Award for International Reporting

Danny Glenwright is president and CEO of Save the Children Canada. A journalist by training, he previously worked as managing director of Journalists for Human Rights and news director of Xtra newspaper, The Philanthropist Journal and South Africa’s Gender Links news service. His work has taken him to over 70 countries, and he has written extensively on gender and LGBTQ issues, media literacy, and Canada’s role in international development.

Joslyn Oosenbrug lives in Yellowknife and reported, hosted and produced for CBC North’s radio and television programs (in Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit) for more than 12 years. She has an honours degree in environmental science from the University of British Columbia and a background in science education and communication. Joslyn currently supports species at risk management and recovery for the government of the Northwest Territories.

Nancy Wood is a copy editor for CBC digital news. After a decade in print, working for the Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star and Maclean’s Magazine, she worked as a writer-broadcaster, host and reporter for CBC for 30 years. 

George Brown Award for Investigations

Mark Bulgutch spent more than 35 years with CBC News, beginning as a reporter and retiring as the senior executive producer. He has also retired from teaching journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University after 35 years. He has written seven books, including two national bestsellers.

Rita Devlin Marier is the global commercial communications lead at Palantir. She previously worked for Agence France Presse, the Canadian Press and Bloomberg, where she was a breaking news editor from 2016 to 2019. Originally from Quebec City, she now lives in San Francisco.

Cybele Sack is a strategy consultant, researcher, writer and editor. She is an award-winning coach for entrepreneurs and startups in all sectors, supporting social innovation competitions. She also works with academic researchers and professionals at the cutting edge of their own disciplines for system transformation. She speaks to large audiences at professional conferences and events, produces and moderates panels and facilitates workshops. She is an experienced plain language and substantive editor for technical documents, journalism, academic initiatives and fiction. As a researcher, she interviews those most impacted and scans documents to find stories others miss. Her work has been published in the Globe and Mail, the New York Times and NOW Magazine and she produced stories for CTV, CBC and TVO.

E. Cora Hind Award for Local Reporting

Winston Sih is a cross-platform freelance journalist and television host. He is well known for having hosted the daily program Breakfast Television, and was digital correspondent for CityNews, and digital coordinating producer for Citytv. He is a lecturer on journalism and media at the Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Megan Stewart is an executive producer for CBC News Vancouver and previously worked as a section editor at a newspaper where she spearheaded a series of documentaries over several months that were nominated for a national award. She won a national online journalism award and was recognized by her peers for her work as a sports writer. She has covered six Olympic Games.

Misha Warbanski has developed a special interest in stories and perspectives from Northern Canada, rural and Indigenous communities. Her career has spanned public broadcasting and Arctic research. Misha recently joined Yukon University as director of marketing communications. She lives in Whitehorse. 

William Southam Award for Long Feature

Brian Kappler started at the Windsor Star, then spent 30 some years at the Montreal Gazette as copy editor, “people” editor, entertainment editor, national editor, baseball beat writer, city editor, assistant managing editor and editorial page editor. For most of that time he also moonlighted as columnist Doug Camilli. He then spent three years writing editorials at the National in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Nobina Robinson is a public policy expert, advocate and thought leader in Canadian higher education, innovation and skills policy issues. She has served in the Canadian Foreign Service and led two not-for-profits: the Canadian Foundation for the Americas and Polytechnics Canada. Between 2018 and 2020, she was chair of Informed Opinions, which works to ensure the perspectives and priorities of women are equitably reflected in the news media. Since 2022, she has served as an advisory board member of Magnet, a national digital community workforce platform that connects talent to jobs.

Yvonne Zacharias began her career in journalism at the Chatham Daily News. Since then, she has worked at: the Regina LeaderPost, covering the Saskatchewan legislature; at the Calgary Herald, where she covered the Alberta legislature and became an assistant city editor; at the Montreal Gazette, where she wrote features and news, focusing mostly on education; and at the Vancouver Sun, where she covered news, features, business and sports, with occasional stints on the copy editing desk.

News Photo

Shane Kelley worked for over 20 years as a photojournalist for three Canadian daily newspapers: the Toronto Sun, the Toronto Star and the Montreal Gazette. In addition to general news and sports photojournalism, she also produced, with text and photos, a weekly trending column for the Montreal Gazette for 15 years. She has also worked for various American newspapers and magazines.

David Lee worked in magazines for 17 years, first as a researcher for Canadian Business and then for Hello! Canada, where he was assistant and associate photo editor. Now employed at the University of Toronto as a photo and video editor, he believes the thread that ties the different facets of his career together is his love of photography and visual media.

Len Wagg is an award-winning photographer and photo editor. He spent 25 years in the newspaper industry and then left to focus on personal work. His work has been published in the New York Times, Maclean’s, Time and other renowned publications, and he is the author of 10 books.

Photo Story

Erin Combs worked for 28 years for the Toronto Star as the newspaper’s first female photographer and graphic editor. In addition to news photography, Erin has built an extensive fashion portfolio covering European and North American collections. She currently lives in San Diego, California, where she continues to freelance and travel, while doing philanthropic work with two non-profit organizations.

Alain Pierre Hovasse is a photojournalism consultant based in Vancouver. He spent more than 30 years as a professional photographer before retiring in 2013. Previous roles include: director of photography, QMI; supervisor of photo operations for the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee; director of photography at La Presse; assistant photo editor at the National Post; senior desk editor for the Associated Press in London; Moscow bureau chief for Agence France Presse; photographer and editor for Reuters based in Brussels and London; and a photo stringer for United Press International based in Vancouver. 

Jalani Morgan, a seasoned photographer with over 20 years of experience, has had his work become a part of the permanent collections in esteemed institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario and the University of Toronto’s Hart House Collection and Government of Ontario Art Collection. His dedication to authenticity and narrative-driven storytelling continues to influence his future projects in photography and photo directing. Currently, Jalani serves as the photo director at West End Phoenix, following his contributions as a photo editor at Macleans and Sportsnet Magazine.

John Wesley Dafoe Award for Politics

Jack Chiang was born in China, and grew up in Macau, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has a bachelor’s degree in French literature from the National Taiwan University, and a master’s degree in journalism from Marquette University. Chiang worked for the Kingston Whig-Standard for more than 25 years, reporting from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Romania, the Caribbean Islands, Brazil, Djibouti and Ethiopia. He was The Whig’s city editor for more than three years and a columnist for 12 years. He is a member of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario, and an honorary doctor of laws degree recipient from both Queen’s University and the Royal Military College of Canada.

Kate McKenna is an award-winning reporter, currently assigned to CBC’s parliamentary bureau. She has more than 10 years’ experience as a journalist, including postings in Montreal, Halifax and Charlottetown. She is the author of a book on Prince Edward Island’s 30-year ban on abortion. Her work has also appeared on NPR, CNN and the BBC.

Rikia Saddy is an advisor to CEOs in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, and a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant recipient for her work studying the philanthropic landscape of Canada. She is author of the book We Are Canada, a Red Maple Award Finalist, plus numerous op-eds on issues from democracy to AI. Having volunteered for decades across party lines, Rikia has offered free strategic advice to female candidates running for the first time in Vancouver as part of her commitment to the non-partisan Women’s Campaign School. 

Presentation/Design

Roland-Yves Carignan is a journalism and digital media professor at the École des médias of the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he specializes in reflections on journalism, society and artificial intelligence. He was a reporter, editor, visual editor and managing editor working in Montreal (Le Devoir, Montreal Gazette), Toronto (National Post) and Paris (Libération).

Gabrielle (Gabe) Giroday is the media relations lead and editor of U of T Med Magazine, at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. She reported for the Winnipeg Free Press and served as editor of Law Times at Thomson Reuters in Toronto, before joining U of T in 2019.

Janet Matiisen is a former Calgary Herald graphic designer, where she worked for almost 25 years and won several individual and collective awards. She currently teaches journalism at SAIT and is on the lookout for interesting graphic projects.

John Honderich Award for Project of the Year

Janet Bagnall was a feature writer, editorial writer and columnist during 35 years with the Montreal Gazette, specializing in coverage of children’s and women’s rights. A 2008 Women’s Y Women of Distinction laureate and twice an NNA finalist, since retirement she has worked on a number of community projects in the Eastern Townships.

Rod Mickleburgh was a journalist for over 40 years, 23 of them at The Globe and Mail. He was a co-winner of the Michener Award for reporting on the tainted blood scandal in Canada and served as the Globe’s Beijing bureau chief in the 1990s. Since leaving the Globe in 2013, he has freelanced, blogged and found time to write On the Line, a book about B.C. labour history, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness.

Ruth Zowdu is a senior managing director at CBC News, overseeing teams in eight local newsrooms across Ontario who produce a range of content including podcasts, radio and television programs, digital text and video. As part of her role, she is also an executive sponsor of strategy for audio and podcasts across CBC News.

Bob Levin Award for Short Feature

Marina Jimenez is the director of communications for the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Previously, she worked as an issues and media strategist for the University of Toronto. During her 25-year journalism career, she worked at six different newsrooms in three provinces, including stints on the Globe and Mail’s editorial board, as a foreign writer for the National Post and as an on-air reporter for CBC Alberta News. She is the proud recipient of the 2003 National Newspaper Award for Beat Reporting, and was an NNA finalist on three other occasions. She continues to work as a freelance travel writer.

Magda Konieczna is an associate professor of journalism at Concordia University. She is the author of Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails (Oxford University Press 2018). Her work focuses on news and democracy, and how intersecting crises in the news business are affecting that relationship. 

Louis M. Maraj, PhD, is an award-winning scholar, multimedia artist, and author of Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics. His critical and creative work focuses on questions surrounding anti/racism, anti/blackness and expressive form. Currently, he is an associate professor in University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism, Writing & Media.

Sports

Deo Nizonkiza is a full-time lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business, where he teaches communication courses. Previously, he taught at the same university as a sessional lecturer in the School of Journalism, Writing and Media and Vantage College. He has also taught writing courses and English for Academic Purposes at other institutions here in Canada — Douglas College and McGill University — and abroad — University of Burundi. Deo holds a PhD in applied linguistics from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Jack Romanelli is a senior editor with three decades in journalism and newsroom leadership. He has led several Canadian news organizations, including as managing editor of The Montreal Gazette and editor of the Halifax Daily News. Currently, he is managing editor of healthydebate.ca, a website affiliated with the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital focused on health care in Canada and mentoring health professionals to write for the public.

Louise Solomita is a senior communications professional working for Bombardier in Montreal, where she specializes in executive communications. She has 15 years of experience as a journalist at the Montreal Gazette, where she worked as city editor, features editor, news assignment editor and all-purpose copy editor.

Sports Photo

Jenelle Schneider is a former photojournalist who worked for the Calgary Herald and the Vancouver Sun. After 15 years in journalism, and realizing her goal of covering the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, she left journalism behind to pursue a life of adventure. She now runs a B&B on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua with her husband.

Andrew Vaughan spent more than 40 years as a photojournalist, 36 years as the Halifax-based national photographer at The Canadian Press. A member of the Atlantic Journalism Hall of Fame, he was nominated for seven National Newspaper Awards and won four times. While having travelled internationally for sports, prime minister tours and military events, the bulk of his work was in the Atlantic region. Defining experiences included the Westray mine disaster, the Swissair passenger jet crash, the Moncton shooting rampage that killed three RCMP officers and most recently the Nova Scotia mass murder, along with many joyful events from Royal visits to the relocation of the residents of Davis Inlet on the Labrador coast.

Riziero (Reg) Vertolli has spent 40 years in photojournalism and was the photography director at Metroland Media in Ontario before his retirement. He is now the academic coordinator and instructor for the digital photography certificate at Sheridan College’s continuing education program. He has also served on the advisory board for the photojournalism program at Loyalist College.

Sustained News Coverage

Elysia Bryan-Baynes spent nearly two decades as an anchor, reporter and sub-editor in Montreal. She has written dispatches and documentaries for globalnews.ca, and covered the ins and outs of Quebec politics in the National Assembly. She is currently associated with the Global News Academy race and reporting course and mentors various reporters through a program offered by the Canadian Association of Black Journalists.

Miro Cernetig has written for some of Canada’s most influential newspapers and won a National Newspaper Award in 2001 for international reporting. With The Globe and Mail, he was bureau chief for Alberta and the Arctic, bureau chief and responsible for Western Canada in Vancouver, then bureau chief for Beijing and New York. He was Montreal bureau chief for the Toronto Star and Western Canada editor for the Vancouver Sun in Victoria before becoming a columnist. He has written and/or directed 10 documentaries, which have aired on CBC, BBC, National Geographic and other international broadcasters. He is also the co-founder of CityAge, an international platform that connects thousands of leaders building the future of our cities.

Valérie Dufour is a senior manager for strategic communications at the National Capital Commission in Ottawa. From 2011 to 2020, she worked at the Canadian Association of University Teachers and for the New Democratic Party’s parliamentary communications team. Previously, she was a political reporter and investigative journalist in Montreal from 1999 to 2011. During her journalistic career, she worked for La Presse, La Voix de l’Est, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montreal and RueFrontenac.

Special Topic: Journalism in a Language other than French or English

Amanda Coletta is a correspondent covering Canada and the Caribbean for The Washington Post based in Toronto. She previously worked in London, first at The Economist and then the Wall Street Journal, where she covered everything from doping in Olympic sports to British politics.

Chuck Chiang is a journalist with The Canadian Press based in Vancouver. Prior to joining CP, Chuck wrote extensively on topics such as minority communities in B.C. for a number of publications, including Business in Vancouver and the Vancouver Sun. He was also involved in the Sun’s Chinese-language news website in the 2010s and has reporting experience in Alberta, the United States and Hong Kong, with organizations that include the Calgary Herald, Associated Press and USA Today. 

Nick Murray is a CBC reporter who has been based in Iqaluit since 2015. He has also worked as senior writer with CBC Sports’ Olympic Games coverage. His work has been recognized by the Canadian Association of Journalists and the RTDNA. Before his days in broadcasting, he interned and freelanced as a sports writer for the Daily Gleaner newspaper in Fredericton.

Special Recognition Citation

Jimmy Jeong is a Korean-Canadian photojournalist based in Vancouver. Select recognition includes American Photographic Artists, Communication Arts, Online Journalism Awards and Prix de la Photographie Paris. Jimmy is a founding member of Rogue Collective and a member of DiversifyPhoto. He is also a founding mentor with Room Up Front, a mentorship for aspiring BIPOC photojournalists in Canada.

Philip Moscovitch is a freelance writer, editor, translator, and audio producer who has been a finalist for both the National Magazine Awards and Atlantic Journalism Awards. He is currently editor  of Write, the magazine of the Writers’ Union of Canada, producer and host of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21’s podcast D’Innombrables voyages, and president of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.

Joanna Smith is the editor-in-chief of Kathari News, a new digital media startup delivering timely, comprehensive and reliable news and views on the global energy transition. An award-winning veteran political journalist on Parliament Hill, she was the Ottawa bureau chief at the Canadian Press and a longtime reporter for the Toronto Star. As a newsroom leader and educator, she helped develop initiatives to foster inclusive storytelling through diversity in sourcing and championed mental well-being in journalism.

Journalist of the Year

Greg Horn is a journalist and photojournalist based out of Kahnawake. A graduate of Concordia University, Greg has been involved in community journalism for more than 25 years and owns the community weekly Iorì:wase. He is a three-time Quebec Community Newspaper Association photojournalist of the year.

Améli Pineda is an investigative journalist at Le Devoir. At the 2021 National Newspaper Awards, she took home the E. Cora Hind Award for Beat Reporting with her colleague Magdaline Boutros for their work on domestic violence in Quebec. They were also named co-recipients of the Journalist of the Year award. She previously worked at Le Journal de Montréal and 24 Heures.

Paul Wells has been a political journalist for almost 30 years, writing for Maclean’s magazine, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, the National Post and other publications. Wells has also filed on politics, war and major events from 20 countries. He is the author of two best-selling books and a frequent commentator on television and radio. You can find his writing and podcast on Substack.