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24 Feb

Calling all BC journalists: fellowship applications open

The Jack Webster Foundation has opened applications for several fellowships available to BC journalists, including two to the Poynter Institute. Deadline is Feb. 25. 

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24 Feb

RTNDA’s Lifetime Achievement Award – Prairie winners

The Association of Electronic Journalists (RTNDA) has announced that Tim Spelliscy and Jim Smalley will receive the organization’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement Awards in the Prairie Region. Tim Spelliscy began his […]

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23 Feb

Nominations open for environmental reporting awards

The Society of Environmental Journalists has opened nominations for its annual journalism awards, which honour outstanding environmental coverage. The awards are open to journalists from any country. Deadline for entries […]

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17 Feb

Anna Porter wins $25,000 prize for political writing

The Writers’ Trust of Canada has awareded Anna Porter the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for her non-fiction book The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled […]

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17 Feb

John Hinnen wins RTNDA Canada President’s Award

The Association of Electronic Journalists has named John Hinnen, vp and general manager of 680 News and vp of radio news broadcasting for Rogers, the winner of its 2011 RTNDA […]

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14 Feb

Charles Foran’s Mordecai wins Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction

Author Charles Foran has been awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction — and the $25,000 prize that comes with it — for his biography Mordecai: The Life and […]

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14 Feb

John Vaillant wins $40,000 non-fiction prize

John Vaillant’s The Tiger, which follows the plight of tigers — including a man-eating one — in Russia’s far east, has won the B.C. National Award for Non-Fiction, beating out […]

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10 Feb

Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award winner announced

The 2011 winner of the Canadian Journalism Foundation and The Canadian Press’s Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award is Aaron Vincent Elkaim. Elkaim, a freelance photojournalist whose work has appeared in the […]

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8 Feb

Embed an expert: Mozilla offers news orgs access to digital innovators

It’s not always easy for a print dinosaur to transition into the online world. In these days of bleeding budgets and shrinking newsrooms, not a lot of news orgs have […]

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7 Feb

Globe series highlights five Charles Taylor nominees

A new five-part Globe and Mail series pits five Charles Taylor Prize finalists against each other to debate a question a day. The prize — which includes a $25,000 awared […]

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