Every year, the National Newspaper Awards honours the best in Canadian print journalism. And twice every year (once when the nominations are announced in March and again when the winners are announced in May), newspapers across the country toot their own horn so hard it’ll make you deaf:
- Toronto Star nominated for 10 awards
- Calgary Herald receives four nods
- High honours for LFP newsroom
- TC reporter earns nomination
- Forestry stories earn Hoekstra NNA nod
- Football photo up for national award
- Second straight nomination
- He hit ’em with his best shot
As if underscoring how little the print media understand the Interwebs, the NNA’s announcement of nominees (and most stories that followed that announcement, including all the ones listed above) included no links to nominated stories and photos.
The spin went even further than that. Though the Globe and Mail (13) led nominations, followed by the Toronto Star (10) and La Presse (8), Canwest added all their papers’ nominations together and declared victory with 14 (Torstar, which also owns the Hamilton Spectator and Kitchener-Waterloo Record, got 15 nods with the Star’s 10, Spec’s 4 and Record’s 1). Sun Media also added up its nominations, but could only get to seven (none are from its Quebec papers.)
By newspaper, the penis measurements numbers are as follows:
- Globe and Mail: 13
- Toronto Star: 10
- La Presse: 8
- Calgary Herald: 4
- Hamilton Spectator: 4
- Ottawa Citizen: 4
- Canadian Press: 3
- The Gazette: 2
- Winnipeg Free Press: 2
- Barrie Examiner: 1
- Brantford Expositor: 1
- Edmonton Journal: 1
- Lethbridge Herald: 1
- New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal: 1
- North Bay Nugget: 1
- Prince George Citizen: 1
- Reuters: 1
- Simcoe Reformer: 1
- Toronto Sun: 1
- Vancouver Sun: 1
- Victoria Times-Colonist: 1
- Waterloo Record: 1
- Windsor Star: 1
Other papers, including the National Post, Journal de Montréal, Le Devoir, Vancouver Province and Halifax Chronicle-Herald, were left out entirely, either because they did not enter or their entries didn’t get nominated.
Some nominated papers did include links to their own nominations, but not to others:
- Globe and Mail (partially)
- La Presse
- Ottawa Citizen
- Hamilton Spectator
- The Gazette (full disclosure: I edited this story. There’s a longer version in today’s paper, which doesn’t include related links nor that adorable picture of Linda Gyulai)
- Winnipeg Free Press
- Edmonton Journal
So since there’s no one page online with links to all the nominations, I’ll just put one together myself. Again. (I’ll add links to photo and design categories if any show up)
Multimedia feature
- Globe and Mail: Talking to the Taliban
- La Presse: Podcast Boulevard Saint-Laurent (I talked about this in September)
- Ottawa Citizen: 70 years of Superman
News feature photography
- Bernard Brault, La Presse
- Lucas Oleniuk, Toronto Star
- Chris Wattie, Reuters
Beat reporting
- Michelle Lang, Calgary Herald: health and medicine
- Rob Shaw, Victoria Times-Colonist: policing issues (see “More on this story”)
- Jane Sims, London Free Press: justice
Explanatory work
- Carolyn Abraham, Globe and Mail: ‘We had to hide the knives‘ (bipolar disorder in children)
- Martin Mittelstaedt*, Globe and Mail: The vitamin D miracle: Is it for real? (subcriber-locked)
- Catherine Porter, Toronto Star: Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains
Politics
- Linda Diebel, Toronto Star (insider stories)
- Steve Rennie, Canadian Press (listeriosis)
- Jeffrey Simpson & Brian Laghi, Globe and Mail (Prime Minister Stephen Harper)
Short features
- Fabienne Couturier, La Presse: 48 heures à Bruges
- Linda Gyulai, The Gazette: Quebecers’ invention rules the road
- Kenneth Kidd, Toronto Star:
Local reporting
- Gordon Hoekstra, Prince George Citizen: forestry industry in B.C.
- North Bay Nugget: E-coli outbreak
- Monte Sonnenberg, Simcoe Reformer: Ontario Home Owner Employee Relocation plan
Presentation
- Julien Chung, La Presse
- France Dupont, La Presse
- Catherine Farley & Sharis Shahmiryan, Toronto Star
Special project
- Globe and Mail: Breakdown: Canada’s mental health crisis
- Hamilton Spectator: A Pig’s Tale (rest of the series is not online)
- Toronto Star: Crime and Punishment
Sports photography
- Tony Bock, Toronto Star
- J. T. McVeigh, Barrie Examiner
- Derek Ruttan, London Free Press: Football fumble (second photo)
Business
- Sophie Cousineau, La Presse: Du désespoir à l’espoir à Lebel-sur-Quévillon
- Sinclair Stewart & Paul Waddie, Globe and Mail: How it all began (the sub-prime mortgage crisis)
- The (Waterloo) Record: Pigeons for profit
Columns
Investigations
- Sue Bailey & Jim Bronskill, Canadian Press (with CBC): increasing use of tasers by police forces
- David Bruser & Moira Welsh & Andrew Bailey, Toronto Star: When companies get rewarded for mistakes
- David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen: The downing of Tusker 914
Arts and entertainment
- Marty Klinkenberg, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal: The art of war
- Jennifer Wells, Globe and Mail: Meet Mother Corp.’s daddy dearest
- Elizabeth Withey, Edmonton Journal: three stories
Sports
- Red Fisher, The Gazette: No. 33 not fit to be retired
- Steve Milton, Hamilton Spectator: Blood on the ice
- Randy Turner, Winnipeg Free Press: The killing field
Feature photography
- John Lehmann, Globe and Mail: Naked bowling (See also video: Buck naked and looking to score)
- Ian Martens, Lethbridge Herald: Moonlit wedding photo
- Steve Russell, Toronto Star: Reflected balloons
International reporting
- Stephanie Nolen, Globe and Mail: Kenya’s disputed elections (Stories including Into the valley of death)
- Michèle Ouimet. La Presse: La mèche dans la poudrière (Pakistan)
- Graeme Smith, Globe and Mail: Talking to the Taliban
Editorials
- André Pratte, La Presse
- Phil Tank, Brantford Expositor
- John Geiger & Adam Radwanski & Edward Greenspon, Globe and Mail
Editorial cartooning
- Cameron Cardow, Ottawa Citizen
- Brian Gable, Globe and Mail
- John B. Larter, Calgary Herald
Long feature
- Andrew Duffy, Ottawa Citizen: The dream grifter
- Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun: The fantastic voyage of a West Coast warrior
- Jon Wells, Hamilton Spectator: Deadly encounter: The Art Rozendal story
News photography
- Dave Abel, Toronto Sun: Robbery takedown
- Dan Janisse, Windsor Star: Car rescue (2nd photo)
- Ted Rhodes, Calgary Herald: “My son“
Breaking news
- Calgary Herald: Lall family murders
- Hamilton Spectator: C difficile outbreaks in Ontario
- Chris Morris, Canadian Press: New Brunswick van crash
*Congratulations to Martin Mittelstaedt for getting his name misspelled in his NNA nomniation announcement.
Wow, the Simcoe Reformer got a nomination! I’m from that area, but not that town specifically. The town where I’m from had a newspaper called The Port Rowan Good News. Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.
Torstar also owns the Waterloo Region Record, so 15 total!
You’re right. I’ve updated the post.