The 2025 Webster Awards, recognizing excellence in journalism in B.C., were handed Monday evening in Vancouver at the Jack Webster Foundation’s 39th annual event.
The Globe and Mail was the night’s big winner, picking up four awards, including the Best News Reporting of the Year (Print/Digital) honour for Nancy Macdonald, with Marsha Lederman named Commentator of the Year. Global BC picked up the Best News Reporting honour in the TV/Video category for its coverage of the Lapu Lapu Day tragedy.
As previously announced, the 2025 Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Global BC political commentator Keith Baldrey, while Sean Holman, the Wayne Crookes Professor of Environmental and Climate Journalism at the University of Victoria and founding director of international teaching newsroom, the Climate Disaster Project, received the 2025 Bill Good Award. The 2025 Shelley Fralic Award, was presented to journalist and Island Crime podcast producer Laura Palmer.
Find the full list of winners here:
Best News Reporting of the Year – Print/Digital
Nancy Macdonald, Pandora’s Block, The Globe and Mail
Best News Reporting of the Year – TV/Video
Sophie Lui, Chris Gailus, Marsha Gabriel, Joan Marshall, Soren Jensen, Alicia Van Dyk, Grace Ke, Emily Lazatin, Rumina Daya, Catherine Urquhart, Sarah MacDonald, Angela Jung, Alissa Thibault, Troy Charles, Nic Amaya, Clayton Little, Pat Bell, Steve Lyon, Chris Allard, Wayne Hancheruk, Luca Sgaetti, Dylan Baker, Dora Huang, Keith Whitter, Effie Klein, Tyson Stanley, Justin Minshull, Jason Pires, Lapu Lapu Day Tragedy, Global BC
Commentator of the Year/City Mic Award
Presented in Memory of Linda Webster
Marsha Lederman, The Globe and Mail
Excellence in Arts and Culture Reporting
Janet Smith, B.C. arts groups grapple with uncertainty after being turned down for Canada Council tour funding, Stir Vancouver
Excellence in Business Reporting
Endowed by Jean Cormier
Graeme Wood, Nine B.C. public auditors hammered by U.S. regulator, Business in Vancouver
Excellence in Community Reporting
Presented by the Al Roadburg Foundation
Mike Graeme, How a colonial line shapes Tlingit lands — and my ancestor’s role in it, IndigiNews
Excellence in Environment Reporting
Presented by the Pacific Salmon Foundation
Matt Simmons, Marty Clemens, Sarah Cox, Lindsay Sample, Michelle Cyca, The healing power of fire, The Narwhal
Excellence in Feature Reporting – Print/Digital
Lesley Evans Ogden, Getting along with Grizzly Bears, Knowable Magazine
Excellence in Feature Reporting – Radio/Audio
Enza Uda, Joan Webber, Everybody Loves Jay, CBC Radio – The Current
Excellence in Feature Reporting – TV/Video
Sophie Hansen, Emily Dineen, Lauren Accili, Lisa Kovtun, At What Cost?The Legacy of Florence Girard, BCIT News
Excellence in Health Reporting
Mike Hager, Kathryn Blaze Baum, Extended Leave, The Globe and Mail
Excellence in Investigative & Enterprise Journalism
Presented by the B.C. Crown Counsel Association
Nancy Macdonald, Greg Mercer, Simon Houpt, Canada Soccer’s Culture Problem, The Globe and Mail
Excellence in Legal Journalism
Presented by the Law Society of B.C.
Kim Bolan, Murder for hire: Why B.C. police target the shooters, but those behind the hits operate with ‘impunity’, Vancouver Sun/Province
Excellence in Multilingual Journalism
Zoey Zhang, Magazine 26 – The Story of Mon Keang School’s Rebirth, Fairchild Television
