Last weekend, the Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec held its annual meeting and journalism conference in Montreal, and part of that is handing out its annual awards for the best in Quebec journalism.

As usual, media reports about these awards are heavily based on whether those news outlets won any of those awards, as you can see from these gloating pieces:

• Radio-Canada
• La Presse
• Le Droit
• L’Actualité
• The Gazette

As is usual with these kinds of awards, neither the list of Judith Jasmin prize nominees nor the list of winners included links to the articles or broadcast pieces in question. (It’s a problem I pointed out three years ago and many times since.) So I will attempt to provide them here.

Winners in each category are listed first, with their names bolded.

Prix Judith Jasmin

Prix Hommage

The Prix Judith Jasmin Hommage, honouring a career of achievement in journalism, went to Paule Beaugrand-Champagne, who has worked for various media outlets and is now retired. She was in the news recently for a piece in L’Actualité about the Journal de Montréal, written from the perspective of a former editor-in-chief who’s not pleased with the way the business is run these days. She has been previously profiled in Trente.

Grand Prix Judith Jasmin

• Alain Gravel, Marie-Maude Denis, Emmanuel Marchand, Claudine Blais: «Collusion frontale» (Enquête/Radio-Canada).

Journalisme de service

• Annick Poitras: «Comment vieillir riche» (L’actualité)
• Pierre Craig, Claude Laflamme, Luc Tremblay: «Service à la clientèle» (La Facture/Radio-Canada)
• Catherine Dubé: «Grippe A(H1N1), Tout savoir – Comment se protéger» (Québec Science)

Nouvelles / médias locaux et régionaux

• Carl Marchand, Benoît Jobin: «La dernière chasse?» (Radio-Canada Côte-Nord)
• Patrice Gaudreault: La libération des Pays-Bas (Le Droit)
• Michel Laliberté, pour sa nouvelle «Hériter de cadeaux empoisonnés» (La Voix de l’Est)

Nouvelles / médias nationaux

• Catherine Kovacs, France Dauphin: «La relève de la chanson et le français» (Radio-Canada)
• Jocelyne Richer: reportage sur les garderies (Presse canadienne)
• Gino Harel: «Des pratiques douteuses chez Culture 420» (Radio-Canada)

Entrevue et Portrait

• Marian Scott: «The lonely journey of David Fortin» (The Gazette)
• Christian Latreille, Monique Dumont, Dominique Landry: «Le combat de Robinson» (Radio-Canada)
• Claudette Samson: «Handicapé sans barrières» (Le Soleil)

Opinion

• Danielle Laurin: «Nelly Arcand 1973-2009 – Ni putain, ni folle, juste brisée» (Le Devoir)
• Manon Cornellier: «Les raisons de la méfiance» (Le Devoir)
• David Descôteaux: «Les insoutenables garderies à 7$» (Métro)

Grand reportage

• Luc Chartrand, Yanic Lapointe: «Le Canada sous influence – Le poids du lobby pro-israélien à Ottawa» (Une heure sur terre/Radio-Canada)
• Gabrielle Duchaîne: «La mort rôde à Lac Simon» (RueFrontenac.com)
• Chantal Guy, reportage sur le séisme en Haïti (La Presse)

Chantal Guy happened to be in Haiti on Jan. 12, writing a story about author Dany Lafferière, when the earthquake struck. Despite being unprepared to cover a disaster zone, she turned into a news reporter and filed this story. Others followed after it over the next few days, until a team of journalists arrived from Montreal. You can read about her experience in this article, and find other stories about Haiti on La Presse’s Haiti page.

Enquête

• André Noël, Michèle Ouimet, Francis Vailles: «Agence de sécurité BCIA» (La Presse)
• Marie-Maude Denis, Alain Gravel, Emmanuel Marchand, Claudine Blais: «Collusion frontale» (Enquête/Radio-Canada)
• Cathy Senay, Monique Dumont, Robert Quintal, Denis Roberge: «La faiblesse des forces» (Enquête/Radio-Canada)

Collusion frontale didn’t win in this category, but was given the Grand Prix.

It’s worth reading the FPJQ’s list of winners to see what stood out in the winning stories in each category.

Prix Antoine Désilets

The photography winners are always harder to track down, mostly because they’re poorly described and can’t be searched as easily as a headline on Google.

The winners are listed here, along with why they were chosen. All the finalists will be on display during expositions across Quebec, including one at the Maison de la culture Ahuntsic from Jan. 20 to Feb. 26.

Vie quotidienne

• André Pichette, La Presse, for «Pluie désaltérante»
• Normand Blouin, Reuters, Photo Solution
• Marie-France Coallier, The Gazette
• Yan Doublet, Le Soleil
• Jacques Nadeau, Le Devoir

Nouvelles

• Ivanoh Demers, La Presse, for a photo from Haiti
• Normand Blouin, Reuters
• David Boily, La Presse
• Marco Campanozzi, The Gazette
• Jacques Nadeau, Le Devoir
• Philippe Renaud, Stigmat Photo

Photoreportage

• François Pesant, L’actualité, for «Les dépotoirs de Delhi»
• François Roy, La Presse

Portrait

• Sébastien St-Jean, ICI, for a photo of Denis Villeneuve.
• Bernard Brault, La Presse
• Alain Décarie, RueFrontenac.com
• André Pichette, La Presse
• Chantal Poirier, RueFrontenac.com
• Alain Roberge, La Presse
• François Roy, La Presse

Sports

• Bernard Brault, La Presse
• Judith Cailhier, Le Reflet
• Benoît Gariépy, Journal de Québec
• Olivier Jean, RueFrontenac.com
• Daniel Mallard, Journal de Québec
• André Pichette, La Presse

Multimédia

• François Pesant, L’actualité, for «Les réfugiés tibétains de Jampaling»
• Vincenzo d’Alto, The Gazette
• Alain Roberge, La Presse

Other prizes and honours

• The Bourse Arthur-Prévost, designed to encourage young journalists, went to Gabrielle Duchaine of Rue Frontenac, the second time in as many years that the bursary has gone to a journalist from the publication of locked-out workers of the Journal de Montréal. (Duchaine was also Rue Frontenac’s only nomination for a Judith Jasmin award, though there were two Antoine Désilets nominations for photographers. Though they didn’t win any of those awards, they can at least take comfort in the fact that the Journal de Montréal wasn’t nominated for anything.) Nancy Beaulieu, a journalist at La Voix de l’Est, got an honourable mention.
• The Conseil supérieur de la langue française, which is independent of the FPJQ, handed out awards at the latter’s gala. Presse canadienne has a story. It gave its Prix Jules-Fournier for French language competence in print to Mélanie Saint-Hilaire, a freelance journalist who has worked for L’Actualité. L’Actualité links to some of her articles from here. The Prix Raymond-Charette, for broadcasting, went to Pierre Craig of Radio-Canada. Each prize is $5,000.