In print for over 160 years, The Globe and Mail has been and continues to be recognized for its dedication to excellence and high journalistic standards.
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Globe's Gary Mason earns two awards from B.C. foundation
Globe and Mail columnist Gary Mason was named a double winner of the prestigious Jack Webster Awards on November 6. The award recognizes excellence in print and broadcast journalism in British Columbia.
Gary won in both categories for which he was nominated. He won best feature story for a piece on crime in Guatemala. He also won for business, industry and economics writing for a feature chronicling the economic history of Prince Rupert, B.C.
The award is given in honour of Jack Webster, a long-time B.C. journalist and broadcaster who died in 1999, said Scott Macrae, vice-chairman of the Jack Webster Foundation and a former Vancouver Sun city editor who once hired Mr. Mason.
Lowell Thomas Awards: Another Gold for The Globe
For the second straight year, Globe Travel has won gold as the best North American newspaper travel section in its category at the 24th Annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, on November 1.
The contest, sponsored by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation, drew 1,356 entries in 24 categories. It was judged by faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Globe Travel led its category of newspapers with circulations of 350,000 to 499,000.
The judges praised the section for "creative and descriptive writing that all travel writers should emulate." They called it "smart, well-designed and brimming with ideas for travellers to all points on the globe. ... Hard to put down, from front to back."
Globe Auto writers win big at AJAC awards
The Automobile Journalists Association of Canada handed out its 25th annual automotive journalism awards on October 23, with Globe Auto writers and editors winning four of eight categories.
Writer Jeremy Cato won in two categories: the Julie Wilkinson Motorsport journalism award, and the overall Journalist of the Year award presented by Jaguar Canada. Writer Michael Bettencourt was honoured with a Wakefield Castrol award for his coverage of technical topics.
It wasn't only the top step of these podiums that were dominated by Globe writers. Michael Bettencourt and Ted Laturnus received runner-up and second runner-up recognition respectively in the Wakefield Castrol-Chinthe writing award for test drives. Jeremy Cato also placed second for the Chinthe award for coverage of technical topics.
An investigation by The Globe and Mail and Montreal's La Presse newspapers into the treatment of Afghan detainees won Canada's top honour for public-service journalism yesterday.
Governor-General Michaëlle Jean presented The Globe and La Presse with the 2007 Michener Award in recognition of a series of articles that examined the practice of transferring detainees to Afghan prisons, where torture and corruption run rampant.
The reports "led to an inquiry and a new agreement, allowing Canadian investigators access to detainees," the Michener Foundation said. "Defence minister Gordon O'Connor was shuffled out of his position following criticism of his handling of the issue."
This is the Globe and Mail's third Michener Award in four years and its ninth over all.
The award, launched in 1970, is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious in Canadian journalism.
Editor-in-chief Edward Greenspon accepted the award on behalf of The Globe. "The detainees' stories fit all the criteria of public-service journalism," Mr. Greenspon said last night. "Canadians want to know their representatives are acting within the rule of law even in difficult times. By holding government and the military repeatedly to account and shining a bright light into the dark dungeons of Afghanistan, Graeme Smith and Paul Koring and Michèle Ouimet have reminded us what journalism looks like at its best."
The Globe also won a citation of merit jointly with the CBC for uncovering details of a financial relationship between former prime minister Brian Mulroney and German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber.
Globe investigative reporter Greg McArthur, together with a reporter from the CBC's the fifth estate, uncovered tax issues related to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of secret payments made to Mr. Mulroney by Mr. Schreiber.
There were 50 Michener entries from across the country this year, and a winner is chosen based largely on its impact on the public good.
Globe journalists honoured with six National Newspaper Awards
The Globe and Mail was recognized with six prizes at the 59th National Newspaper Awards in Toronto on May 9 – more than any other news organization in the country.
The newspaper had 15 nominations among the 21 categories heading into the annual dinner that salutes the best of Canadian print journalism – also the highest number among Canadian news organizations for the ninth year in a row.
The Globe's awards spanned the journalism continuum, from explanatory work to news features photography:
- John Lehmann won in the news feature photography category for a photo of a young mother kissing her conjoined twins in Vernon, B.C.
- Stephanie Nolen won in the explanatory work category for a story on how inexpensive vaccinations, mosquito nets and vitamins are saving the lives of children in the developing world.
- Roy MacGregor won in the short features category for a story on the funeral service for RCMP Constable Christopher Worden, who was fatally shot while responding alone to a call in Hay River, NWT.
- Graeme Smith won in the international reporting category for stories on the torture of detainees in the Afghan war.
- Ian Brown won in the long features category for a story on spring cleaning and the age of clutter.
- Boyd Erman, Jacquie McNish, Tara Perkins and Heather Scoffield won in the business category for stories on the subprime mortgage crisis, for the inside story on how a convulsion in credit markets led to a made-in-Canada crisis, triggering an unprecedented emergency rescue effort.
Globe reporter earns CAJ nomination
Globe and Mail investigative reporter Greg McArthur has received two nominations for a major award by the Canadian Association of Journalists.
Greg's nominations are for his work on two very different stories – tax issues related to secret payments to former prime minister Brian Mulroney, and how a rogue informant manipulated the RCMP.
The CAJ awards, which will be announced next month in Edmonton, recognize outstanding achievement in the field of investigative reporting.
Greg, who came to the Globe in 2005 from the Ottawa Citizen, is in the rare position of being honoured for work done at two different newspapers: His series The Secret Agent Who Conned the Mounties was written in collaboration with former Citizen colleague Gary Dimmock. This aspect of the nomination was particularly gratifying for him: "I think it's a good moment for Canadian newspapers, because they were able to put aside their individual corporate interests to do something that was important to the public interest."
Greg is assigned to The Globe's investigative unit. His previous honours include the 2006 National Newspaper Award for Investigations, and the 2004 Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize, which is given each year to an outstanding journalist under the age of 25.
Globe reporter named one of Canada’s top young journalists
The Globe and Mail’s Omar El Akkad has won the Hon. Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize for his investigative and feature writing.
The award, which is given to the best journalists under the age of 25 recognized Omar's months-long probe into terrorist propaganda websites with Web domains registered in Canada as well as his story on the Muslim punk-rock scene, an exclusive interview with an imam who became one of Islam’s very public faces after the arrest of 17 Toronto-area suspects in 2006’s anti-terrorism sweep, and a feature on Unicef’s polio vaccination program he wrote on assignment in Afghanistan.
Omar, now 26, also won a National Newspaper Award last year for investigative reporting.
The Globe gets most National Newspaper Award nominations
The Globe and Mail has earned 15 nominations for National Newspaper Awards, receiving the highest number among Canadian news organizations.
There were 1,408 entries, with 22 news organizations nominated for work appearing in 2007.
The Globe and Mail's 15 nominees:
- John Lehmann has been nominated in the news feature photography category for a photo of a young mother kissing her conjoined twins in Vernon, B.C.
- Stephanie Nolen has been nominated in the explanatory work category for a story on how vaccinations, mosquito nets and vitamins are saving lives.
- Roy MacGregor has been nominated in the short features category for a story on the funeral service for a slain RCMP officer.
- Graeme Smith has been nominated in the short features category for a piece on what happens when an Afghan is found dead.
- Boyd Erman, Jacquie McNish, Tara Perkins and Heather Scoffield have been nominated in the business category for stories on the subprime mortgage crisis, for the inside story on how a convulsion in credit markets led to a made-in-Canada crisis, triggering an unprecedented emergency rescue effort.
- Eric Reguly, Boyd Erman, Sinclair Stewart and Andrew Willis have been nominated in the business category for work on the takeover of BCE Inc. The team dominated the story from the day the telco giant was put in play, through to the end of a bitter takeover fight that sealed Canada's largest deal in history.
- Margaret Wente has been nominated in the columns category.
- Lisa Rochon has been nominated for a third straight year in the arts and entertainment category for stories on architecture.
- Charla Jones has been nominated in the feature photography category for a photo of Leonard Cohen at his home in Montreal.
- Stephanie Nolen has been nominated in international reporting for a story on the quest to find and identify bodies of people killed during apartheid.
- Doug Saunders has been nominated in the international reporting category for a series on the world's middle class.
- Graeme Smith has been nominated in the international reporting category for stories on the torture of detainees in Afghanistan.
- Mary Janigan has been nominated in the editorial writing category.
- Carolyn Abraham has been nominated in the long features category for a story on the growing movement to bury the unborn.
- Ian Brown has been nominated in the long features category for a story on spring cleaning.
Globe leads News Photographers Association of Canada awards nominations
The Globe and Mail has garnered nine nominations for the annual awards, the most of any media organization.
Globe photographers dominated the multimedia category, earning four of the seven nominations for photo essays that appeared on the newspaper's website.
- Vancouver bureau photographer John Lehmann earned four nominations alone – for spot news, portrait, picture story and multimedia photography.
- Toronto-based Globe photographer Peter Power earned two nods for his photo essay on a legless teenaged wrestling champion, Johnathan Hatzis.
- Power also earned a nomination for his series on Walker Brown, a child born with a rare genetic disorder.
- The Globe's Charla Jones was nominated for her multimedia essay on a farm family.
- Freelancer J. P. Moczulski was nominated for his Globe photo of Toronto's skyscrapers swaddled in fog.
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3 golds, 1 silver, 12 honourable mentions for ROB magazine
Report on Business magazine went into the 2008 National Magazine Awards competition with 16 nominations across 10 categories.
The result was three gold medals – a record for our magazine – plus one silver award.
We were awarded gold in the editorial package category for The Future of Food – featuring the work of more than 15 staff and freelance contributors; in the personal finance and businee category – for the Corporate Survival Guide; and in the words and pictures category – for War Gains.
Our silver award was for To Russia with Parts – and was awarded to writer Paul Webster.
Report on Business magazine also received 12 honourable mentions for other content in our magazine.
Report on [Small] Business magazine garnered 2 honourable mentions for spot illustration and portrait photography
Report on Business magazine's 16 National Magazine Awards nominations
The Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine has dominated the National Magazine Awards nominations in the business periodical category with 16 nominations in 10 categories – and enough to give it fourth place over all.
Report on [Small] Business magazine, started by The Globe and Mail in 2005 and published four times a year, received two nominations, one in the spot illustration category, the other in portrait photography.
Included among the individual Report on Business magazine nominees are:
- Art director Domenic Macri (four nominations in total, in three categories)
- Writers and/or photographers Derek DeCloet, John Lorinc, Chris Nuttall-Smith, Sinclair Stewart, Paul Webster, Geoffrey York, Lyle Jenish, Craig Silverman, Mark Schatzker, Sabitri Ghosh, Jesse Boles, Lisa Fielding, Sylvain Dumais, Liam Sharp, and the magazine's editor-in-chief, Gary Salewicz.
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Globe's Taliban series wins online news award
The Globe and Mail's groundbreaking series Talking to the Taliban, by correspondent Graeme Smith, has received an Online Journalism Award for Best Investigative Piece, Large Site, given out in Washington by the Online News Association.
The series included individually videotaped interviews with 42 Taliban foot soldiers who were asked identical questions. Their replies served as the spine of the stories and analysis by Mr. Smith that offered insight into a conflict in Afghanistan rarely seen by Canadians, whose soldiers face increasing danger in the country each day.
Each video was translated and presented for the audience in the piece on globeandmail.com. "Talking to the Taliban was inventive and courageous in the best traditions of journalism and then made brilliant use of the new media story-telling techniques available to us. I'm pleased to see it garner international recognition," Globe editor-in-chief Edward Greenspon said. "It is a model of the direction in which The Globe and Mail is rapidly moving: original reporting delivered in the manner most relevant to our readers."
The series also received recognition in the multimedia feature category. The Online News Association is composed largely of professional online journalists.
Two Webby Award nominations
- The Globe's The Boy in the Moon video series was nominated for a Webby Award in the best online documentary series category.
The video, that was part of a multimedia feature about one family's struggle with a son's genetic disorder has earned The Globe and Mail a nomination for the leading award honouring excellence on the Internet.
Photographer Peter Power worked with Globe writer Ian Brown as he told the frank and intimate story of his 11-year-old son, Walker, who is mentally delayed and unable to speak.
The video, edited and produced by Jayson Taylor and Mr. Power, was used in a three-part series that pushed the boundaries of two media by successfully marrying the strengths of Mr. Brown's evocative prose and Mr. Power's poignant video and still images.
- Globeandmail.com was also selected as an official honoree in the newspaper category in the 12th Annual Webby Awards.
2008 World Editors Forum Award
The World Editors Forum, an organization within the World Association of Newspapers, in conjunction with a panel of newspaper design experts, has selected globeandmail.com as one of the Top 5 Newspaper Website Redesigns for 2006-2007.
The other newspapers in the top 5 were The Guardian, the Times Online (London), El Pais (Spain), and 24Sata (Croatia).
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