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17 Jun

CBC leads with 30 RTDNA Canada awards, Global comes in second with 10

<p>CBC won 30 out of the 56 RTDNA Canada awards over the weekend. Global came in second with a total of 10 RTDNA awards and CTV followed with 9. </p><p>Here's the full list of award winners according to their <a href="http://rtndacanada.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=18637&item=135197">press release</a>. </p><p><strong><u>NATIONAL TELEVISION WINNERS</u></strong></p><p><strong>Bert Cannings Award - Best Newscast</strong></p>

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17 Jun

Investigative report on teen boot camps wins best feature at PWAC awards

<p>Georgie Binks won the PWAC award for best feature story for “<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/autumnd86/readers-digest-1">Tough Love</a>,” an investigative report on teen boot camps published in <em>Readers Digest</em>. Jackie Middleton’s health story in the <em>Globe and Mail </em>on how to “<a href="http://www.besthealthmag.ca/get-healthy/health/does-disease-run-in-your-family">Unlock the Secrets of your Family Tree</a>” won the short articles award. Peggy Berkowitz won the PWAC editor of the year award for her work in <em>University Affairs.</em></p>

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14 Jun

Winners of Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary announced

<p>At a time when most news organizations are cutting back on foreign bureaus and on travel, three reporters have got the Gordon Sinclair Roving Reporter Bursary allowing them to report from Peru, southern Europe and northern Alberta.</p><p>The $15,000 bursary supports travel for a minimum of six weeks for an early career Canadian journalist who has within the last five years graduated from a university-level journalism program.</p>

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14 Jun

Veteran journalist and filmmaker Michael Maclear honoured for a lifetime of achievement by CJF

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-medium inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/medium/images/MMphoto2013second.JPG" title="" /></p><p><strong>By Tamara Baluja</strong></p><p>You know the problem with journalism? “It’s addictive,” said Michael Maclear, as he accepted his lifetime achievement award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation, Thursday night in Toronto</p>

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13 Jun

Live Blog: Canadian Journalism Foundation Awards

<script src="http://embed.scribblelive.com/js/LiveArticleEmbed.aspx?Id=87262&ThreadId=120303" type="text/javascript"></script><p> </p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="800" src="http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=120303&ThemeId=11022" style="border: 0px solid #000" width="700"></iframe></p>

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12 Jun

Global News makes history as first Canadian network to win Edward R. Murrow Award

<p>Global News has <a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/636363/global-news-wins-edward-r-murrow-award/">won the Radio Television Digital News Association's (RTNDA) National Edward R Murrow award</a> for Overall Excellence for network television.</p><p>It`s a historic win for its flagship newscast Global National with Dawna Friesen, and marks the first time a Canadian network has won the award since it was first presented in 1971. Recent award-winners include ABC News and NBC News.</p>

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11 Jun

Tom Hawthorn wins two Grimmies for best obituary writing

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Hawthorn.jpg" title="" /><a href="https://twitter.com/tomhawthorn">Tom Hawthorn</a> won two Grimmies for best obituary and best body of work in 2011 at the <a href="http://www.societyofprofessionalobituarywriters.org/the-grimmies.html">Society of Professional Obituary Writers (SPOW) Awards</a> for his freelance work in the <em>Globe and Mail.</em></p>

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6 Jun

Cottage Life wins big at CSME Awards

<p><br /><img alt="" class="imagecache-large inline-image" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/large/images/csme2013 (2).jpg" title="" /></p><p><em>Photo courtesy of CSME. L-R: Aaron Spitzer, Up Here; Penny Caldwell, Cottage Life; Diane Peters, Precedent; Simone Castello, Canadian Living; Karen Eull, Fresh Juice</em></p>

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5 Jun

Up Here Business and Oilweek named Kenneth R. Wilson Awards Magazine of the Year

<p><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/UpHereBiz_0.jpg" title="" /><img align="left" alt="" class="imagecache-thumbnail inline-image" hspace="10" src="http://j-source.ca/sites/www.j-source.ca/files/imagecache/thumbnail/images/Oilweek.jpg" title="" /></p>

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29 May

Letter to the editor: The NNAs do in fact reflect digital journalism

<p><strong>By Scott White, Chair, Board of Governors, National Newspaper Awards</strong></p><p>Melanie Coulson’s <a href="http://j-source.ca/article/opinion-national-newspaper-awards-dont-reflect-journalism-digital-era">recent opinion piece about the National Newspaper Awards</a> raises some important issues about the relevancy of one of the country’s premier journalism awards programs as newspapers transform from print to digital platforms.</p>

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