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Postmedia journalists have received eight nominations from the prestigious National Newspaper Awards for work ranging from commentary to news photography to lengthy journalistic explorations of wildfires, affordability issues and tragedies.
Postmedia-owned papers that received award nominations include National Post, Ottawa Citizen and Vancouver Sun/Province, and two nominations for local reporting.
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“I’m delighted to see our journalists’ outstanding work recognized. It’s especially gratifying to see nominations in a variety of categories — from columns, to local reporting, to photography and short and long features,” said Duncan Clark, Postmedia’s chief content officer. “It’s a wonderful representation of the essential work our teams do every day.”
Adam Zivo, a National Post columnist, was nominated in the column-writing category, for three columns that dealt with Parliament’s recognition of Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian man who fought for the Nazis in the Second World War; the appearance of “straight pride” T-shirts last summer; and a defence of free speech when it came to protesting drag events.
Writers at the London Free Press were nominated for two awards. Randy Richmond, Calvi Leon, Rachel Gilbert and Brice Hall were nominated for the E. Cora Hind Award for Local Reporting for a project on one Indigenous family’s journey through the Sixties Scoop. Jane Sims, a more than 30-year veteran at the paper, was nominated for the Bob Levin Award for Short Feature for her story about Salman Afzaal who, along with his family, was killed by a white nationalist terrorist in June 2021.
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Another Postmedia reporter, Hiren Mansukhani of the Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun, received a nomination in the short feature category for his story on the challenges faced by two families who fled their homes in Yellowknife in advance of last summer’s wildfires.
Also in the local reporting category, Sabrina Bedford of the Brockville Recorder and Times, was nominated for what the judges called “exhaustive coverage” of an Ontario Provincial Police officer convicted of multiple crimes, including raping an unconscious woman and filming it on his phone.
Douglas Todd, a long-time columnist with the Vancouver Sun/Province, was nominated in the William Southam Award for Long Feature category for his story about British Columbia’s mental-health-care system, and whether his father, who was institutionalized for two decades, would have survived the modern iteration of the system.
Also at the Vancouver Sun/Province, Lori Culbert, Katie DeRosa and Dan Fumano received a nomination in the sustained news coverage category for their extensive work on the affordable-housing crisis in the west coast city.
Ashley Fraser, a photographer at the Ottawa Citizen/Ottawa Sun, received a nomination in the news photo category for her gripping shot of police officers mourning at the funeral for Sgt. Eric Mueller, an OPP officer killed in the line of duty.
Winners will be announced at a gala in Toronto on April 26.
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