Gala 2012

Honorary Tribute

Ted Koppel, former long-time ABC anchor and correspondent, will present the CJF Annual Honorary Tribute posthumously to Peter Jennings, Canadian-born anchor and senior editor of ABC's World News Tonight, to mark a storied career of journalistic excellence.

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Excellence in Journalism Award
Large-media category finalists

The Canadian Press  |  The Current - CBC Radio One  |  The Huffington Post Canada
Toronto Star  |  Winnipeg Free Press

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Tamara Baluja, national reporter with The Globe and Mail with a special interest in education, is the winner of the CJF Greg Clark Award for early career journalists. Baluja will have the opportunity to spend up to a week visiting a First Nations school in a remote community in British Columbia where graduation rates and performance indicators show positive change is being made. Her goal is to gain insight into what's working and why. Read more...

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Jack "Sig" Sigvaldason, publisher of Northern News Services, has been named the CJF Lifetime Achievement Award recipient."The fact that he created this feisty, profitable mini newspaper empire in the NWT and Nunavut serving 60,000 people in two languages (English and Inuktitut) over an area of 1.5 million square miles is a massive achievement and the centrepiece of a 50-year career, " says Valerie Pringle, jury member and long-time program host and television journalist at CBC and CTV.

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Join our Gala host

Seamus O'Regan
CTV National News correspondent

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For more details, visit our Media Room

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