The 2005 Jack Webster Awards
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2005 Jack Webster Awards winners
Best News Reporting - Print
Winner:Neal Hall, Lori Culbert, Chad Skelton, Kim Bolan, Roger Watanabe, Don Cayo, Judith Lavoie, Jeff Rud, Lindsay Kines, Harold Munro: Inside Crime Inc. — The Vancouver Sun and Victoria Times Colonist
Finalists:
Amy O’Brian: Surrey Memorial Hospital — The Vancouver Sun
Lindsay Kines, Les Leyne, Louise Dickson Jeff Rudd: Child Deaths — Victoria Times Colonist
Best News Reporting - Radio
Winner:Pamela Post: The Brotherhood - Alarming stories behind the BC Human Rights complaints of Burnaby fire captain Boni Prokopetz — CBC Radio New
Finalists:
Lesley Pritchard: Critical Condition - E.R.'s in the Fraser Region — CBC Radio
Peter Armstrong, Paisley Woodward, Carolyn Jack, Rosa Marchitelli, Dana Bales, Stephen Lus, Vik Adhopia: Mystery in Chechnya — CBC Radio News
Best News Reporting - Television
Winner:Rob Brown, Keri Adams, Tomasia Da Silva, Janet Dirks: Mudslide — CTV British Columbia
Finalists:
Rumina Daya: Sri Lanka, BCTV News on Global
Leigh Morrow: Welfare Rental Slumlord — Citytv Vancouver
Best Feature - Print
Winner:Ben Parfitt: Black Plague — The Georgia Straight
Finalists:
Tom Hawthorn: Wave Goodbye — Western Living
Jack Knox, Debra Brash: The Last Man on Earth to Speak Nuchatlaht — Victoria Times Colonist
Best Feature - Radio
Winner:Jeff Weaver: Crystal Aunt — CBC Radio
Finalists:
Eileen Power: Katie's Story — CBC Radio
Yvonne Gall, Marie Clements: Hours of Water — CBC Radio
Best Feature - Television
Winner:Brian Coxford: Eurohealth — BCTV News on Global
Finalists:
Terry Milewski: Ray of Light — CBC News
Leigh Morrow: Pandemic Countdown — Citytv Vancouver
Jack Webster Award for Business, Industry & Economics
Endowed by Jean Cormier
Winner:Scott Simpson: Peace River Power Struggle — The Vancouver Sun
Finalists:
Ben Parfitt: Killing Fields — The Georgia Straight
Frank O'Brien: The Hundred Million Dollar Spread — BC Business Magazine
Best Reporting - Chinese Language
Winner:Bo Zhang, Frank Huang, Lin Yin, Victoria Dong, Mark Huang, Kathy Li: Prime Minister's Visit to China — Global Chinese Press
Finalists:
Ada Luk: One Woman Fight — Fairchild TV
Tony Liaw: Aftermath of 911 — CHMB AM1320
Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting
Winner:Mike Cornell: Reaching Out to Sri Lanka — Kamloops Daily News
Finalists:
Russ Francis: High Hazards at Care Homes — Monday Magazine
Noel Hulsman: The Outsider — BC Business Magazine
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Sponsored by the Law Society of BC
Winner:Ian Hanomansing, Scott Moore: Crime on the Street — CBC News
Finalists:
Jennifer Hourihan: Evelyn Marten Trial — Cowichan Valley News Leader
Dana Bales: Security for Sale — CBC Radio
Jack Webster Award for Science and Technology
Supported by Barry Lando
Winner:Ed Watson, Sophie Lui, Dana Hutchings, Murray Langdon, Jonathan Bartlett, Kim Emerson, Bruce Kirkpatrick: Magnitude 9 — CH News
Finalists:
Dee Hon: Attention Deficit Disorder: A Personal Investigation; My ADD: Curse or Gift? — The Tyee
David Wiwchar, Michael Tymchuk: The Bad Blood Returns, Nuu-chah-nulth Blood Returns to West Coast Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper — CBC Radio
City Mike Award (Commentator of the Year)
Winner:Daphne Bramham — The Vancouver Sun
Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner:Vicki Gabereau
