The 2006 Jack Webster Awards
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2006 Jack Webster Awards winners
Best News Reporting of the Year - Print
WinnerFabian Dawson, Mike Roberts, Val Fortney, Ted Rhodes: Abandoned Brides - Canada's Shame India's Sorrow — The Province
Finalists
Lori Culbert and Miro Cernetig: Savannah: BC's Child Protection System — The Vancouver Sun
Jeff Rud and Lindsay Kines: Sherry Charlie and the State of B.C.'s Child Welfare System — Victoria Times Colonist
Best News Reporting of the Year - Radio
WinnerPhilip Till, Amy Lapsley: Katrina - A Wave of Destruction — CKNW NewsTalk 980
Finalists
Mark Forsythe, Susan McNamee, Priya Ramu, Steve Lus, Cecilia Walters, Brian Dance, Karen Burgess, Bernice Chan, Doug Cheng, Miyoung Lee: Queen of Oak Bay Crash — CBC Radio One
Gary Symons: Gone to Hell - How the Biker Gangs Took Canada — CBC Radio
Best News Reporting of the Year - Television
WinnerKent Molgat, Blaine Gaffney: Corruption at City Hall — CHBC TV Kelowna
Finalists
Natalie Clancy, Belle Puri, Terry Milewski, Justine Hunter, Melanie Nagy, Deborah Goble, Darrow MacIntyre: Queen of the North — CBC News - Canada NowKathy Tomlinson, Todd Battis: The Zeisman Case — CTV National News
Best Feature Story - Print
WinnerPeter O'Neil, Doug Ward, Douglas Todd: Politics and Prayer — The Vancouver Sun
Finalists
Peter Clough, David Carrigg, Susan Lazaruk, Jonathan McDonald, Ginger Sedlarova, Jon Murray, Ric Ernst: Stolen Lives: An In Depth Look at the Dangerous World of Auto Crime — The Province
Gary Mason: Sudden Death — The Globe and Mail
Best Feature Story - Radio
WinnerKirstie Hudson, Sara Darling: Fatal Cuts — CBC Radio
Finalists
Betsy Trumpener: Mothers' Milk — Daybreak North, CBC Radio
Tim Mah, Yvonne Gall: Face the Music and Dance — CBC Radio
Best Feature Story - Television
WinnerDeb Hope: Courage to Come Back — Global TV
Finalists
David Kincaid: Katrina Heroes — CTV BC
Duncan McCue, James Roberts: Requiem for David — CBC News Canada Now
Jack Webster Business, Industry & Economics Award
Endowed by Jean Cormier
WinnerGordon Hamilton: Logger Deaths — The Vancouver Sun
Finalists
Carla Wilson: Sea Change —The Victoria Times Colonist
Ross Howard: Living on Borrowed Power — BC Business Magazine
Best Reporting - Chinese Language
WinnerMary Yang: Head Tax Stories — Sing Tao Daily
Finalists
Fairchild TV News Team: Shattered Dream - One Man's Disastrous Experience in Investing in China — Fairchild TV
Karen So, Michael Tam, Rachman Lai, Ricky Tong: BC Hydro — channel m Television
Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting
WinnerGordon Hoekstra: Dying For Work — Prince George Citizen
Finalists
Michele Young: Glass Half Empty — Kamloops Daily News
Trudy Beyak: What Every Mom and Dad Should Know - Pedophile's Pattern of Deception — Abbotsford News
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Sponsored by the Law Society of BC
WinnerFrederic Zalac, Marie Belzil: Breaking the Cycle — Radio -Canada
Finalists
Fabian Dawson, Andy Ivens, Christina Montgomery: Jury System Flawed — The Province
Peter McKnight: The Myth of Getting Tough on Gun Crime — The Vancouver Sun
Jack Webster Award for Science and Technology
WinnerDavid Baines: UBC Professors Question COLD-FX — The Vancouver Sun
Finalists
Frances Bula: A Convention of Sea Life — The Vancouver Sun
Deborah Wilson: Failure Pattern — CBC Radio-Victoria
Commentator of the Year
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
Mike McCardell — Global BCBruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
Vaughn Palmer