The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) handed out its annual awards over the weekend at the conclusion of the 2019 CAJ Conference in Winnipeg.
Recognizing outstanding investigative journalism, the recipients included Laura Kane and Aleksandra Sagan of The Canadian Press, who won the year’s top investigative prize, the McGillivray Award, for their entry Contagion: Edging closer to a world without antibiotics. Contagion, which was also recognized in the Open Media category, looked at the challenge of how to deal with potentially fatal antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Jeremy Cohn, one of the photojournalists arrested by Hamilton Police at the scene of a fatal crash in Waterdown, ON in May 2017, accepted the Charles Bury Award, given under circumstances of exceptional merit to those people or organizations that have made a significant contribution to Canadian journalism.
Here’s the full list of honourees:
OPEN MEDIA
Laura Kane, Aleksandra Sagan
Contagion: Edging closer to a world without antibiotics
The Canadian Press
COMMUNITY MEDIA
Grant LaFleche
The Standard, St. Catharines, Ont.
Thanks @caj for a fantastic #CAJ2019 awards night. It was amazing to see such dedication to the craft from a diverse, dedicated and talented group of journalists from across the nation! #partylikeajournalist pic.twitter.com/0jc7jSPS6Y
— Grant LaFleche (@GrantRants) May 6, 2019
OPEN BROADCAST FEATURE
Julie Ireton, Jennifer Chevalier
CBC News – Ottawa
OPEN BROADCAST NEWS
Laurie Hamelin, Kathleen Martens
APTN National News
COMMUNITY BROADCAST
Nick Murray
CBC News – Iqualuit
DATA JOURNALISM AWARD
David Common, Melissa Mancini, Katie Pedersen, Valerie Ouellet, David McKie
CBC Marketplace
CBC’s @cbcmarketplace wins @caj award for data-driven investigation into long term care. Congrats team! #caj19 @CBCNews pic.twitter.com/caFITL1pGk
— Cecil Rosner (@rosnerc) May 5, 2019
ONLINE MEDIA
Jon Milton, Erin Seatter, Ethan Cox
Ricochet Media
PHOTOJOURNALISM
Aaron Vincent Elkaim
The Narwhal
SCOOP
Erica Johnson, Enza Uda, Alison Downie, Amar Parmar
CBC News – Go Public
DAILY EXCELLENCE
Team entry
The Canadian Press
TEXT FEATURE
Amy Dempsey
The Toronto Star
JHR / CAJ AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING
Team entry
CBC News – Indigenous / CBC News – Saskatchewan
Congrats to @CBCIndigenous, @CBCNorth, @CBCSask
on their JHR/CAJ Human Rights Award for their work Beyond 94. @caj #caj2019 pic.twitter.com/KAROEMzzZ8— Martha Troian (@ozhibiiige) May 5, 2019
JHR / CAJ EMERGING INDIGENOUS JOURNALIST AWARD
Kyle Edwards
Maclean’s Magazine
CWA CANADA / CAJ AWARD FOR LABOUR REPORTING
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
APTN / CAJ RECONCILIATION AWARD
Catou MacKinnon
CBC News – Quebec
Catou MacKinnon wins the @APTNNews @caj Reconciliation Award category. #caj2019 pic.twitter.com/IBtI4bRX2k
— Martha Troian (@ozhibiiige) May 5, 2019
STUDENT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Amber McLinden, Rayane Sabbagh, Simran Sachar
Mount Royal University, Calgary
