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.

Listed below are the many newspaper, magazine and online awards that we've received over the past few years, dating back to 2005.



PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize
Stephanie Nolen has won the PEN Canada/Paul Kidd Courage Prize for her extensive coverage of AIDS epidemic in Africa

This award recognizes writers and journalists who have demonstrated exceptional courage and integrity in the interest of freedom of expression.

"Although she has often put her personal security on the line in pursuit of a story, it is her emotional courage that stands out," the jury noted.

"By staking out the HIV/AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa as her beat, Nolen has put herself in the midst of unspeakable human tragedy, day after day, month after month, and year after year. By simply refusing to look away, she has forced us all to share the horror of her own experiences."

Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition
Globe Travel was honoured with a gold in its category for best newspaper travel section by the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.

National Newspaper Awards
At the National Newspaper Awards in Winnipeg, The Globe and Mail won four awards, more than any other news organization.

The newspaper had received 13 nominations for the awards, the highest number among Canadian news organizations for the eighth year in a row.

Special Project
This is the first win for The Globe and Mail in this category.

The work of more than two dozen reporters, researchers, photographers and editors, it focused on the lives of cancer patients, the policy failures and our hopes and fears for the future.

It began with a moving portrait of cancer patients who went through the cancer-care system on a single day: June 15, 2006.

Called A Day in the Life, the first piece was written by Erin Anderssen, who spent five months in regular contact with about 100 cancer patients.

Readers will remember the brave Shelby, whose picture appeared on our front page on Nov. 18, beaming and dancing as she approached death at 3.

Business
Brent Jang and Paul Waldie teamed up on a look at the WestJet spy case.

They wrote the definitive piece on what happened behind the scenes based on dozens of high-level WestJet e-mails obtained by The Globe and Mail from court filings.

They were filed as part of a bitter, two-year legal battle over allegations WestJet used surreptitious tactics--dubbed '007 Project'--to gather confidential information about its rivals Air Canada, Jetsgo and CanJet Airlines.

Investigations
Omar El Akkad, left, and Greg McArthur worked day and night searching semi-private blogs for background information on the 17 Muslim men charged in an alleged terror plot.

Among other things, they found the wives of four of the central figures arrested were among the most active on the website, sharing, among other things, their passion for holy war, disgust at virtually every aspect of non-Muslim society and a hatred of Canada.

Arts and Entertainment
Lisa Rochon, The Globe's architecture columnist, also won the award last year for her continuing coverage on architecture.

In one article she wrote: "To my mind, cities are made up of continuities and discontinuities. Architecture tames a city. It can create order from disorder. But, without moments of civic grandeur that stand apart from the rest, a city loses itself to systems of sameness."

The Globe's other NNA nominees included:

• Stephanie Nolen was nominated in two categories: international reporting and beats. Her first was for her stories on the legacy of Robert Mugabe's brutal regime, the second for stories on the African AIDS crisis.

• Michael Valpy was a finalist in the political reporting category for an in-depth profile of Michael Ignatieff.

• Brian Gable, a four-time NNA winner for editorial cartooning, received his eighth nomination.

• Sean Fine was nominated in the editorial writing category for a fourth year in a row.

• Jacquie McNish was nominated in the business category for a behind-the-scenes look at the Inco-Falconbridge takeover battle.

• Robert Everett-Green was a finalist in the arts and entertainment category for his stories about the arts scene.

• Jan Wong earned a nomination in the long features category for her stories examining the world of the working poor by taking a job for a month as a cleaning lady.

• Cinders McLeod was nominated in the presentation category.

Another Outstanding Picture Nomination
Globe and Mail staff photographer Louie Palu is a finalist in the photojournalism category of the Canadian Association of Journalists 2006 awards for outstanding investigative journalism in Canada--for Afghanistan: Ghosts of War.

The winners will be announced on May 26, 2007.

Cancer Series Earns Nomination
A series on the personal and public face of cancer has earned The Globe and Mail a nomination for the prestigious Michener Award.

The nomination by the Michener Awards Foundation, which seeks to recognize public service journalism in Canada, comes after The Globe was just last month nominated for 13 National Newspaper Awards, including one for the special project on cancer.

The project took an in-depth look at the impact cancer has on the lives of Canadians, revealing that many are experiencing delays in treatment and accumulating large debts to pay for care.

While the series was running, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a national cancer strategy. Ontario followed with an announcement that the province would spend more than $190-million on colorectal cancer screening.

Last year, reporter Lisa Priest won the Michener Award for The Globe with her coverage of the cancer drug Herceptin.

In 2005, reporters Daniel Leblanc and Campbell Clark won for their stories on the federal sponsorship scandal.

Globe and Mail staff photographer Louie Palu is a finalist in the photojournalism category of the Canadian Association of Journalists 2006 awards for outstanding investigative journalism in Canada--for Afghanistan: Ghosts of War. The winners will be announced on May 26, 2007.

Hyman Solomon Award
Veteran Globe and Mail columnist Eric Reguly was honoured in April, receiving the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism.

According to the Public Policy Forum, a non-partisan volunteer group, the award will recognize "the excellence with which he informs Canadians about the relevance of public policy decisions on their social and economic well-being."

Globe Golf Columnist Elected to Canadian Golf Hall of Fame
Toronto-based Lorne Rubenstein got his first job in the mid-1970s as the curator of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum, now located at the Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario.

Now Rubenstein is going back to the Hall as an inductee.

His career evolved into writing and he's become Canada's pre-eminent golf scribe.

A competitive player before turning to writing, he’s been associated with The Globe and Mail since 1980, when he launched a column called A Caddy's View.

He’s written or co-written nine books, and was the founding editor of ScoreGolf magazine, to which he continues to contribute.

But his column, which now appears twice a week in The Globe, morphed into a forum for his wide-ranging views on the PGA Tour, course architecture, history and the Canadian golf scene.

He's also written for almost every major golf periodical in North America, and he's won a National Magazine Award in Canada and three top prizes from the Golf Writers Association of America.

Rubenstein will be inducted on June 27.

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Report on Business Magazine Wins at the National Magazine Awards
Report on Business magazine won two gold awards: in the business writing category for "On Top of the World" by Geoffrey York, and in the investigative reporting category for "Bum Steer" by Andrew Nikiforuk.

Silver awards were won in the business writing category for "A Royal Mess" by Paul Waldie, and in the humour category for "The Free Drinks Investment Strategy" by Mark Schatzker.

The magazine also received 11 honourable mentions in several writing and visual categories. The nominations include five in the business-writing category, ranging from Sinclair Stewart's piece on the best trader on Bay Street, "Live Fast and Prosper," which was also nominated in the profiles category.

Other nominees in the business category included John Daly.

Konrad Yakabuski's article "Gimme Shelter" was nominated in the business category, as well as in politics and public interest.

Meanwhile, Christopher Shulgan was nominated in arts and entertainment for "Mr. Skoll Goes to Hollywood," and in the category of magazine covers, Domenic Macri was nominated for "Prem Watsa Revealed."

Christophe Collette was nominated for "Danger Pays" in photojournalism and photo essay.

Trevor Cole was nominated for "Much Depends on Lunch" in the one of a kind category, while Martin Patriquin picked up a nod for "Scenes From a Boomtown."

In the category of editorial package, Report on Business magazine's "The Work Issue: What people will do to make a buck," was nominated.

Globe and Mail reporter Omar El Akkad, who is also up for a National Newspaper Award this year, picked up a nomination for an article in Report on Small Business.

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National Newspaper Awards
For the sixth consecutive year, The Globe topped finalists with 10 nominations for Canada's top print journalism honours.

Africa-based Stephanie Nolen won for international reporting for stories on Rwanda 10 years after it was ripped apart by genocidal warfare.

Erin Anderssen won in the explanatory-work category with a feature about "geodemographics"--a powerful marketing tool used to figure out what makes consumers tick.

Globe and Mail Named Best Media Organization in Canada
The Globe and Mail received the Canadian Journalism Foundation's annual Excellence in Journalism Award, the only national award for overall performance by a print or broadcast news organization.

The award is based on commitment to democratic citizenship, rigorous professional practice, honesty, accuracy, independence, public accountability and initiative as well as artistry, clarity of style and quality of presentation.

The jury of six independent industry experts was impressed by The Globe's outstanding coverage of major stories, unequalled commitment to foreign affairs, and the process we called "reimagination," where employees were asked to find ways to change and improve the newspaper.

The Globe's CJF Fellow #23
Editorial page editor Marcus Gee received a Canadian Journalism Foundation fellowship to study foreign affairs and Asian studies for one academic year at the University of Toronto.

He is the 23rd Globe writer to receive this honour since its inception in 1962.

The Amnesty International Media Award
The Globe and Mail's Africa correspondent Stephanie Nolen won this for her story on the harsh realities child soldiers face in Uganda after escaping from forced combat.

Ms. Nolen has now won this prestigious award three times in four years: in 2004, for her reporting on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, and in 2003, for another story on Uganda.

"The Amnesty award goes out of its way to recognize reporting on subjects that don't appear otherwise in our media. That's the kind of reporting I try to do," she said.

Society for News Design
The Globe and Mail won 10 awards of excellence, including one for overall use of photos--plus a prestigious silver medal.

Editorial art director David Pratt said the awards represent "an effort by The Globe to present the news in ways that respect the reader's time and make it easier to get at the facts, the emotion, the drama and significance of an event. It's a credit to the team and it's a sign of the senior editors' commitment to presentation and visuals."

University of Western Ontario's Huron College 2006 Medal of Distinction
This was won by The Globe's Africa correspondent Stephanie Nolen "for passionate advocacy for the people she writes about and furthering understanding, compassion and social justice."

Two Canadian Nurses Association: Canadian Medical Association Media Awards
One award went to Africa correspondent Stephanie Nolen for her story on a Canadian-funded project to reduce child deaths in Tanzania.

The other award was won by Lisa Priest for stories documenting how patients with incurable breast cancer could obtain the breakthrough drug Herceptin, but patients with curable forms could not. Ms. Priest's stories helped push governments to extend funding for earlier-stage patients.

Best Print Colour Quality in North America
The International Newspaper Colour Quality Club, the world's most prestigious quality newspaper production association, named The Globe and Mail the top large-circulation daily in North America for print quality.

This is the fourth time since 1998 The Globe has been named a member of this elite 50-member club.

2006 Ross Munro Media Award for Defence Reporting
Globe columnist Christie Blatchford, who's reported extensively from Afghanistan, was cited for bringing to the theatre of war "her keen eye and curiosity" through "compelling, exceptionally evocative and superbly descriptive prose that conveys the experience of the Canadians' war in Afghanistan."

The award is presented annually by the Conference of Defence Associations and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.

Nolen Honoured for AIDS Story
The Globe and Mail's Africa correspondent has been recognized for excellence in health reporting for the second consecutive year. Stephanie Nolen's award from the Canadian Medical Association is in the international reporting category. It is for her profile of a sex-trade worker in Nairobi who became a medical celebrity for her apparent immunity to AIDS. The woman lives a wretched existence and seems to be the only person not benefiting from the immense sums of money used to study her.

"Ms. Nolen uses exhaustive research and a compelling narrative to ask hard questions about the conduct of researchers, many of them Canadian. The result is a gripping and complex examination of a vital issue in medical research," a CMA citation says.

The award was presented Feb. 22, 2007.

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The National Magazine Awards
Report on Business magazine won a gold for its cover "10 Dirty Secrets of a Bay Street Temp" (Domenic Macri and Clare VanderMeersch) and a silver in the still-life category for "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Lindsay Page.

The magazine also received honourable mentions in several writing, visual and integrated categories.

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2005 National Newspaper Awards
For the seventh year in a row, The Globe and Mail received the most nominations and the most awards (10 nominations and 4 awards won).

Long Feature
Ian Brown won for a study of religion and evangelical Christians in the United States.

Columns
London-based reporter Doug Saunders won for a series of his Saturday columns.

Editorial Cartooning
This NNA was won by Brian Gable.

Arts and Entertainment
Lisa Rochon won for a series of columns on architecture.

The Globe's other NNA nominees included Sean Fine (editorials), Jeff Sallot and Simon Tuck (politics), Allan Maki (short features), Stephanie Nolen (international), Margaret Wente (columns), Tu Thanh Ha and Ingrid Peritz (breaking news).

Society for News Design: Gold! Silver! Excellence!
The Globe and Mail won a gold medal for best overall use of photography--the only gold awarded in Canada and one of six golds over all.

The Globe also won a silver medal for a picture by staff photojournalist Louie Palu of a mineshaft in a feature on hard-rock mining.

The same page received one of five awards of excellence.

2005 Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence
The Globe Real Estate section was singled out as "a passionate advocate for the preservation of heritage buildings and the architects and craftspeople who work in that special field…and the excellent writing staff deserve the gratitude of the entire heritage community."

2005 Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism: An Unusual Double Nomination
One for coverage of the federal sponsorship scandal; the other for Report on Business investigations of questionable practices in the mutual fund and insurance industries.

Photographer Wins Top Honour
The sobering sight of a forgetful man who sleeps next to a list of his personal possessions asks the question "Are these items where they belong?" won for Kevin Van Passen photo-of-the-year honours, one of 10 awards won by the paper.

Science Writing Kudos
Two Globe and Mail stories were recognized as among the best science writing published in Canada in 2005.

A lengthy article by staff reporter Carolyn Abraham described attempts to find genetic differences between ethic groups, work that could lay the groundwork for new treatments and cures.

Freelancer Peter Christie was honoured for a story looking at animal behaviour that gets to the heart of the debate about whether animals have culture.

"This Section Makes You Want to Move to Canada Just So You Can Have a Fun Travel Section to Read Each Week"
So wrote the judges of the annual Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition--recognized as the most prestigious contest in its field--honouring The Globe and Mail's Travel section with three awards: a bronze in the circulation category for best newspaper travel section, a silver for a series about the 10 new members of the European Union and another silver for an article by The Globe's Jan Wong about a Chinese bus tour in Canada.

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2005 National Magazine Awards
From its launch in 1984 through 2004, Report on Business magazine won 12 golds, 13 silvers, and 86 honourable mentions.

In 2005, 10 nominations were received:
Writing categories:
Trevor Cole's look at the world of high-end real estate sales; Konrad Yakabuski's portrayal of executive-suite tensions at Bombardier; Susan Bourette on divorce lawyers of the rich and famous, and her profile of Newfoundland broadcasting mogul Geoff Stirling.
Visual Categories:
Vanessa Wyse's art direction for two single magazine articles--"Inside a dynasty" and "The secrets of my success"; Rachel Ann Lindsay for illustrations accompanying "The secrets of my success."

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2005 Online Journalism Award
The globeandmail.com feature on AIDS in Africa received an honourable mention for Best Use of Multiple Media (Large Sites).

2005 EPPY Awards
Coverage by globeandmail.com of the 2004 Canadian federal election received an honourable mention for Best Use of Interactive Media in this international competition sponsored by Editor & Publisher magazine.