2009 Jack Webster Awards Finalists
Best News Reporting of the Year - Print
Kim Bolan, The Vancouver Sun: Gang Crisis in Metro Vancouver
Lindsay Kines, Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist: Native Housing Crisis
Gary Mason, The Globe and Mail: The Olympic Village Scandal
Best News Reporting of the Year - Radio
Bob Keating, CBC Radio Nelson: Bladerunner
Steve Lus, Paisley Woodward, Jennifer Leask, CBC Radio Vancouver: Reality Check
Curt Petrovich, CBC Radio: Dirty Questions
Best News Reporting of the Year - Television
CHBC News: Rock Slide
Lisa Rossington, Jon Woodward, Julia Foy, Kent Molgat, CTV British Columbia: Gang War
Kathy Tomlinson, Enza Uda, Eric Rankin, Paisley Woodward, CBC News Vancouver at Six: Prescription for Profit
Best Feature Story - Print
Louise Dickson, Times Colonist: Anatomy of a Murder
Denise Ryan, The Vancouver Sun: The Return of a Warrior
Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun: From the Ashes
Best Feature Story - Radio
Robert Doane, Betsy Trumpener, CBC Radio One-Northern BC: Last Call - Fetal Alcohol
Curt Petrovich, CBC National Radio: Rowing for Redemption
Tim Wohlberg, CKNW 980AM: No Scalpel, No Needle, No Children
Best Feature Story - Television
Priya Mann, Kent Simmonds, CFJC TV Kamloops: Remembering Afghanistan
Elaine Yong, Global BC: Beyond the Great Wall
Frédéric Zalac, Alex Shprintsen, CBC Radio - Canada: The Taser Test/Taser: Essai Choc
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Online Journalism
The Tyee News Team, The Tyee: 2009 BC Provincial Election Issue Coverage
CBC News Vancouver: BC Votes 2009
Chad Skelton, The Vancouver Sun: Parking Tickets
Jack Webster Business, Industry & Economics Award
Endowed by Jean Cormier
Joan Chang, Rick Cluff, Laura Palmer, CBC Radio: Going for Broke
Shannon Paterson, CTV British Columbia: Condo Crash
Cheryl Rossi, The Vancouver Courier: Final Cut
Best Reporting - Chinese Language
Claudia Lau, Winnie Hwo, Fairchild TV: Sin City North - M26
Travena Lee, Fairchild Radio: Child Protection and Foster Care
Lisa Wu, Richard Tang, Guo Ding, Channel M/Omni BC: Chinese Heritage
Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting
Monte Paulsen, The Tyee: A Home for All
Tim Petruk, Kamloops This Week: Targeting Teens within Seconds
Hannah Sutherland, Peace Arch News: A Stolen Past
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Sponsored by the Law Society of BC
Fabian Dawson, Ethan Baron, The Province: Meeting Mr. Big
Peter McKnight, The Vancouver Sun: Governing Through Crime
Jon Woodward, Stephen Smart, Kent Molgat, Jim Beatty, CTV British Columbia: Farmland for Sale - The John Les Investigation
Jack Webster Award for Science and Technology
Peter Grainger, CTV British Columbia: Taser Science
Larry Pynn, The Vancouver Sun: Shifting Seas
Elaine Yong, Sergio Magro, Monty Burt, Global BC: Lifestyle Challenge
Commentator of the Year
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
Winner will be announced at the Jack Webster Awards Dinner
