The 2007 Jack Webster Awards
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2007 Jack Webster Awards winners
The Best News Reporting of the Year - Television award is presented in memory of Keith Bradbury
Best News Reporting of the Year - Print
Winner
Chad Skelton
The Vancouver Sun
Gambling in B.C.
Finalists
Lori Culbert, Neal Hall and Janet Steffenhagen, The Vancouver Sun: Former Teacher Faces Sex Charges
Kim Bolan, The Vancouver Sun: The Murder of Manjit Panghali
Best News Reporting of the Year - Radio
Winner
Kelly Ryan and Paisley Woodward
CBC Radio
The Fight for Frank Paul
Finalists
Mark Forsythe, Susan McNamee, Theresa Duvall, Brett Ballah, Renee Filippone, Marcie Gray and Betsy Trumpener, CBC Radio: BC Place Dome Collapse
Meera Bains, Jeff Davies and Paisley Woodward, CBC Radio: Fraser Valley Van Crash: The Safety of BC's Farmworkers
Best News Reporting of the Year - Television
Winner
Jim Beatty
CTV British Columbia
Filthy Foster Home
Finalists
Elaine Yong, Global BC: Home Inspector Series
Tony Parsons, Randene Neill, John Daly, Ted Chernecki, Chris Gailus, Anne Drewa, Rob Bencze, Ted Field, Keith Baldrey and Grace Ke, Global BC: Storm Coverage
Best Feature Story - Print
Winner
Pete McMartin and Glenn Baglo
The Vancouver Sun
Faces of Autism
Finalists
Gerry Bellett, The Vancouver Sun: Death by Graduation
Jonathan McDonald, Peter Clough, Cristina Montgomery, Matthew Ramsey and Ginger Sedlarova, The Province: Under the Gun
Best Feature Story - Radio
Winner
Betsy Trumpener
CBC Radio
The Coffin Carver
Finalists
Curt Petrovich and Yvonne Gall, CBC Radio: Children of the Missing Women
Yvonne Gall, Salma Nurmohamed, Duncan McCue, Kathryn Gretsinger, Pamela Post and Margaret Gallagher, CBC Radio: Sacred Spaces
Best Feature Story - Television
Winner
Erica Johnson, Litsa Sourtzis and Stephanie Kampf
CBC TV
Dirty Doctors
Finalists
Mike McCardell, Global BC: East Hastings Series
Duncan McCue, James Roberts and Sara Darling, CBC News: Reading, Writing and the Rez
Jack Webster Business, Industry & Economics Award
Winner
Ross Howard
BCBusiness
The Lost City
Finalists
Don Cayo and Doug Todd, The Vancouver Sun: Deconstructing Taxes
Shannon Paterson, Jim Beatty, Dag Sharman and Peter Grainger, CTV British Columbia: Riverbend
Best Reporting - Chinese Language
Winner
Winnie Hwo, Todd Ye, Karen Cho, Philip Yong, Fairchild TV News and Current Affairs Team
Fairchild TV
BC's China Policy
Finalists
Ada Luk and Fairchild Current Affairs Team, Fairchild TV: Ah Han's Story - How Asian Inmates are Changing Correction Canada's Services
Tony Liaw, CHMB AM1320: Dual Citizenship
Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting
Winner
Sandy Heimlich-Hall, Bill O'Donovan, Doug Collins, Tim Peeling, Susan Edgell, Kyle Donaldson, Jason Trout, Kent Simmonds, Tom Konopski, Marcel Chelkowski, Mel Rothenburger, Susan Duncan, Mike Cornell, Cam Fortems, Robert Koopmans, Jason Hewlett, Michelle Young, Mike Youds, Catherine Litt, Murray Mitchell and Keith Anderson
Kamloops Daily News & CFJC TV 7
Seeing Red: The Pine Beetle Epidemic
Finalists
Kendyl Salcito and Tom Barrett, The Tyee: BC's New War over Private Property Rights
Derek Spalding and Allison Cross, Nanaimo Daily News: Designing Babies
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Winner
Peter McKnight
The Vancouver Sun
Series of columns on legal issues
Finalists
Robert Koopmans, Kamloops Daily News: Court Notes
Lisa Rossington, Janet Dirks, Keri Adams, Kate Corcoran and Brent Gilbert, CTV British Columbia: The Pickton Trial
Jack Webster Award for Science and Technology
Winner
Maurice Bridge
The Vancouver Sun
Rewiring the Brain
Finalists
Scott Simpson, The Vancouver Sun: Climate Change
Ed Watson, Julie Nolin, Dana Hutchings, Jennifer Crosby and Mary Griffin, CH Vancouver Island: Climate of Change
Commentator of the Year
Peter McKnight
The Vancouver Sun
Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
Jim Harrison
CHNL Radio, Kamloops
