The Canadian Association of Journalists has released the full list of nominees in the 2018 CAJ Awards program. The recipients in each category will be announced May 4 at the CAJ Awards Gala in Winnipeg, as part of the #CAJ19 Annual Conference at the Radisson Hotel. There were a total 340 entries for the 2018 awards program.
The finalists in the OPEN MEDIA category are:
Trina Roache
APTN Investigates
Jacques Marcoux, Katie Nicholson
CBC News
Heather Persson, Andrea Hill, Arthur White-Crummey, Brandon Harder, Alex MacPherson, Kayle Neis, Heather Polischuk, Mark Melynchuk, Troy Fleece, Liam Richards
Saskatoon StarPhoenix / Regina Leader-Post
Laura Kane, Aleksandra Sagan
Contagion: Edging closer to a world without antibiotics
The Canadian Press
David Bruser, Robert Cribb, Mike De Souza, Patricia W. Elliott, Carolyn Jarvis, Emma McIntosh, Patti Sonntag, Michael Wrobel
The Toronto Star / Global News / National Observer / StarMetro Calgary / Concordia Institute for Investigative Journalism
The finalists in the COMMUNITY MEDIA category are:
Dan Taekema
Breaking the ‘Code of Silence’ at the South West Detention Centre
CBC News – Windsor
Grant LaFleche
The Standard, St. Catharines, Ont.
Michael Robinson
Sounding the Alarm: An Ambulance New Brunswick Investigation (no link available)
Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, N.B.
The finalists in the OPEN BROADCAST FEATURE category are:
Trina Roache
APTN Investigates
Josh Bloch, Kathleen Goldhar, Anita Elash, Heather Evans, Mieke Anderson
CBC News / CBC Podcasts
Julie Ireton, Jennifer Chevalier
CBC News – Ottawa
Avery Haines, Derek Miller, Kathlene Calahan, Brett Mitchell, Anton Koschany
CTV W5
Brigitte Noël, Matthew Joycey
Des thérapies bidon pour «guérir» l’homosexualité
Quebecor Media – Bureau d’enquête
The finalists in the OPEN BROADCAST NEWS category are:
Willow Fiddler
“It’s going to reopen again”: Elder told mother
APTN National News
Laurie Hamelin, Kathleen Martens
APTN National News
Tamara Pimentel, Lucy Scholey
APTN National News
David Cochrane
CBC News – The National
The finalists in the COMMUNITY BROADCAST category are:
Nick Murray
CBC News – Iqaluit
Carolyn Ray
Selected pieces from The Search
CBC News – Nova Scotia
Ted Blades
We Didn’t Think We Were Doing a Lot
CBC Radio – On The Go (CBC Newfoundland & Labrador)
Lisa Xing
CBC News – Toronto
The finalists in the DATA JOURNALISM AWARD category are:
David Common, Melissa Mancini, Katie Pedersen, Valerie Ouellet
CBC Marketplace
Karissa Donkin, Jack Julian
Fatal Fun: How Atlantic Canadians are dying on recreational vehicles
CBC News – Atlantic
Glen McGregor
Racial Profiling at Canada Border Services
CTV National News
Bill Curry, Tom Cardoso
Federal Liberals violated own fundraising rules
The Globe and Mail
Diana Zlomislic, Rachel Mendleson, Marco Chown Oved, Robert Cribb, Andrew Bailey, Emma Jarratt, Emma McIntosh, Anne-Marie Jackson, Matt McClure, Haley Ryan, Jeremy Nuttall, Jesse Winter, Lynn McAuley, Fadi Yaacoub, Tania Pereira, Edward Tubb, Bert Bruser
The Toronto Star
The finalists in the ONLINE MEDIA category are:
Zi-Ann Lum
HuffPost Canada
Gareth Charter
Freelancer / OpenCanada.org
Jon Milton, Erin Seatter, Ethan Cox
Ricochet Media
Hilary Beaumont
Parliament Hill’s weak anti-harassment policies and toxic culture are failing women
Vice News Canada
The finalists in the PHOTOJOURNALISM category are:
Jonathan Hayward
Portfolio (no single link available)
The Canadian Press
Aaron Vincent Elkaim
The Narwhal
Pat Kane
Indigenous guardians reclaim the land
The Narwhal
Larry Wong
Postmedia Network – Edmonton (Journal, Sun, Examiner)
The finalists in the SCOOP category are:
Erica Johnson, Enza Uda, Alison Downie, Amar Parmar
CBC News – Go Public
Dave Seglins, Rachel Houlihan, Laura Clementson, Dave Pizer, Farhan Ahmad, Raj Ahluwalia, Robert Cribb, Marco Oved, Lynn McAuley
Ticketmaster’s Secret Scalper Program
CBC News – Investigates / The Toronto Star
Stewart Bell
Global News
Shaamini Yogaretnam
Team officials and Hoffman knew about harassment allegations for weeks, agent says
Ottawa Citizen
Kim Bolan
Young BC gangsters executed after international hit
Vancouver Sun
The finalists in the DAILY EXCELLENCE category are:
Charles Hamilton, Janani Whitfield, Natascia Lypny, Karin Yeske, David Hutton
CBC News – Saskatchewan
Team entry
The Canadian Press
Omar Sachedina, Marc D’Amours
Indonesian Earthquake from Palu
CTV National News
Andrew Duffy
Ottawa Citizen
Heather Persson, Kevin Mitchell, Andrea Hill, Arthur White-Crummey, Darren Zary, Brandon Harder, Mark Melnychuk, Alex MacPherson, Phil Tank, Kayle Neis, Thia James, Tim Switzer, Hannah Spray, Austin Davis
Saskatoon StarPhoenix / Regina Leader-Post
Michael Robinson, Alexandre Boudreau
‘There were no goodbyes’ (no link available)
Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, N.B.
* due to the extraordinary quality of entries in the daily excellence category, six finalists are being named.
The finalists in the TEXT FEATURE category are:
Matthew Campbell, Natalie Wong
The unsolved murder of an unusual billionaire
Bloomberg Businessweek
Grant Robertson
The Globe and Mail
Kyle Edwards
Maclean’s
Amy Dempsey
The Toronto Star
Martin Patriquin
Freelance / The Walrus
The finalists in the JHR / CAJ AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING category are:
Rob Smith
APTN Investigates
Jennie Russell
CBC News – Edmonton
Team entry
CBC News – Indigenous / CBC News – Saskatchewan
Faculty and fellows of the International Reporting Program, HuffPost Canada
International Reporting Program, University of British Columbia / HuffPost Canada
Sarah Fodey
TVO / Sand Bay Entertainment
The finalists for the CWA CANADA / CAJ AWARD FOR LABOUR REPORTING are:
Hans Rollman
Should unions say no to closed-door negotiations?
Briarpatch Magazine
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
Alicia Bridges
CBC Radio – The Doc Project
Andrew Yates, Tim Querengesser
HuffPost Canada
Sharon J. Riley
The Narwhal
The finalists for the JHR / CAJ EMERGING INDIGENOUS JOURNALIST AWARD are:
Tamara Pimentel
APTN National News
Nic Meloney
CBC News – Indigenous
Kyle Edwards
Maclean’s Magazine
Emilee Gilpin
Portfolio / First Nations Forward
National Observer
Andrea Smith
The Tyee
The finalists for the APTN / CAJ RECONCILIATION AWARD are:
Jorge Barrera
CBC News – Indigenous
Catou MacKinnon
CBC News – Quebec
Carl Meyer
National Observer
Katie Hyslop, Paul Willcocks
The Tyee
Jon Thompson
TVO.org Northwestern Ontario Hub, Thunder Bay, Ont.
The finalists for the STUDENT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE are:
Justin Langan, Josh Delaronde
A Mother’s Story (no link available)
Assiniboine Community College, Brandon, Man. / Prairie Hearts
Amber McLinden, Rayane Sabbagh, Simran Sachar
Mount Royal University, Calgary
Natalie Valleau, Courtney Ingram, Breanne Kramer
Mount Royal University / Calgary Journal
