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    Winner of the 2017 Michener Award announced

    The Globe and Mail has won the 2017 Michener Award for Unfounded, an investigation into the mishandling of sexual assault cases by Canadian police. Gov. Gen. Julie Payette presented the Michener Award, which honours excellence in Canadian public service journalism, at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. “The judges concurred that this rigorous, in-depth investigation exemplifies the best in…

  • Patti Sonntag awarded the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Journalism Education to do project on Canadian resource extraction companies with 26 student journalists and partners. Photo courtesy Patti Sonntag.

    Patti Sonntag spearheads Canadian collaborative investigative journalism project

    This story was funded by the J-Source Patreon campaign. By Jane Gerster The first time Patti Sonntag tried to pitch a hands-on investigative class about resource extraction companies to Canadian journalism schools she was met with enthusiastic but noncommittal interest. It was 2014 and while schools were interested in the topic, Sonntag said, the project was…