Awards
Feb 23, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
The Society of Environmental Journalists has opened nominations for its annual journalism awards, which honour outstanding environmental coverage. The awards are open to journalists from any country. Deadline for entries is April 1.
Feb 17, 2011
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Lacey
The Writers' Trust of Canada has awareded Anna Porter the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her book The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe's Troubled Past and Uncertain Future.
Feb 17, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
The Association of Electronic Journalists has named John Hinnen, vp and general manager of 680 News and vp of radio news broadcasting for Rogers, the winner of its 2011 RTNDA President's Award....
Feb 14, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
Author Charles Foran has been awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction -- and the $25,000 prize that comes with it -- for his biography Mordecai: The Life and Times, about CanLit hero Mordecai Richler...
Feb 14, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
John Vaillant's The Tiger, which follows the plight of tigers -- including a man-eating one -- in Russia's far east, has won the B.C. National Award for Non-Fiction, beating out John FitzGeral's What Disturbs Our Blood, Stevie Cameron's On the Farm and Charles Foran's Mordecai. The prize is worth $40,000.
Feb 10, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
The 2011 winner of the Canadian Journalism Foundation and The Canadian Press's Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award is Aaron Vincent Elkaim...
Feb 08, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
In hopes of giving the most outdated news organizations a much-needed online boost, the Knight Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation have teamed up to create a fellowship program designed to "embed" data and online journalists and developers into newsrooms.
Feb 07, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
A new five-part Globe and Mail series pits five Charles Taylor Prize finalists against each other to debate a question a day.
The prize -- which includes a $25,000 awared -- is awarded to the best in Canadian non-fiction, and this year includes nominees Stevie Cameron (author of On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women); Charles Foran (Mordecai: The Life and Times); Ross King (Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven), George Sipos (The Geography of Arrival, about the author's youth) and Merrily Weisbord (The Love Queen of Malabar, about Indian writer Kamala Das).
Writer Ian Brown won the prize in 2010 for his memoir The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search For His Disabled Son. The 2011 winner will be announced on February 14.
The prize -- which includes a $25,000 awared -- is awarded to the best in Canadian non-fiction, and this year includes nominees Stevie Cameron (author of On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women); Charles Foran (Mordecai: The Life and Times); Ross King (Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven), George Sipos (The Geography of Arrival, about the author's youth) and Merrily Weisbord (The Love Queen of Malabar, about Indian writer Kamala Das).
Writer Ian Brown won the prize in 2010 for his memoir The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search For His Disabled Son. The 2011 winner will be announced on February 14.
Feb 03, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
The Western Magazine Awards Foundation has opened nominations for its 2011 Western Magazine Awards. Deadline for entries is March 4. Winners will be announced at an awards gala in Vancouver on June 17.
Feb 01, 2011
- Posted by Dana
Lacey
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for Women's Health has opened applications for its 2011 Journalism Awards for Excellence in Women's Health Reporting, which recognizes print and broadcast journalists, reporters and producers that inform the public about sexual and reproductive health issues.
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