26-04-2025
Postmedia wins National Newspaper Awards, including Journalist of the Year
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The Calgary Herald/Calgary Sun was also nominated for the John Honderich Award for Project of the Year for its 'Squeezed' series, which looked at the rising cost of living and how it's affected Calgarians.
Kim Bolan, a veteran crime reporter at the Vancouver Sun/The Province, was nominated for the Norman Webster Award for International Reporting. Bolan reported from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Southeast Asia, detailing the reach of B.C.'s criminal organizations.
In the local reporting category, which Beswick won, Julia Peterson at the Saskatoon StarPhoenix had also been nominated, for her extensive coverage of the two inquests into the James Smith Cree Nation mass killings.
And in the sports reporting category, Ken Warren and Tony Caldwell at the Ottawa Citizen/Ottawa Sun were nominated for their feature about an Ottawa man who cuts a hole through the ice so he can hop in for a daily swim.
The awards were announced at a gala Friday evening in Montreal.
The NNAs received 864 entries from 82 publications across Canada for the 2024 iteration of its awards.
