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The 2013 Jack Webster Awards Winners and Finalists

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Best News Reporting of the Year - Print

Winner
Gillian Shaw, Lori Culbert, Mark Yuen, Dean Broughton, Mike Hager
The Vancouver Sun
Amanda Todd

Finalists

Dene Moore – The Canadian Press – Enbridge Northern Gateway

Gordon McIntyre – The Province – Stink Raised over Legal Grow-ops

Best News Reporting of the Year - Radio

Winner
Bob Keating
CBC Radio
Johnsons Landing Slide

Finalists

Marcella Bernardo – CKNW News Talk 980 – Epic Failure

Rick Cluff, Shiral Tobin, Chris Brown, Elaine Chau, Jodie Martinson, Margaret Gallagher – CBC Radio One, The Early Edition – Pidgin Protests

Best News Reporting of the Year - Television
Presented in memory of Keith Bradbury

Winner
Jon Woodward
CTV British Columbia
Deadly Recovery

Finalists

Kathy Tomlinson, Mike Clarke – CBC News Vancouver – Budget Rent A Car Rip-off

Brian Coxford, Karl Casselman, Monty Burt – Global BC – Recovery House

Best Feature Story - Print

Winner
Denise Ryan, Mark Yuen
The Vancouver Sun
Through Her Sister's Eyes

Finalists

Ros Guggi, John Fuller, J.J. Adams, Erik Rolfsen, Cheryl Chan, Sam Cooper, Elaine O'Connor, Ethan Baron, Arlen Redekop, Jason Payne, Les Bazso, Jenelle Schneider, Dharm Makwana, Rafe Arnott – The Province – Heartbeat: Inside St. Paul's Hospital

Lori Culbert – The Vancouver Sun – The Agony of Ecstasy

Best Feature Story - Radio

Winner
Garth Mullins, Lisa Hale, Yvonne Gall
CBC Radio
The Imaginary Albino

Finalists

Theresa O'Leary, Yvonne Gall – CBC Radio – Mothers & Sons: Restorative Justice

Jodie Martinson, Joan Webber – CBC Radio One, The Current – To Have & to Hold: Evelyn Amony's Story

Best Feature Story - Television

Winner
Kelvin Redvers
CTV BC - First Story
A Home for Edgar

Finalists

Therese Champagne – Radio-Canada Television – My Culture of Rice

Kent Simmonds, James Peters – CFJC-TV Kamloops – Scott Casey, In the Devil's Courthouse

Scott Roberts – CTV British Columbia – The Spill

Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Digital Journalism

Winner
Chad Skelton, Lori Culbert, Gordon Hoekstra
The Vancouver Sun
Political Donations and Lobbyists

Finalists

Devon Goodsell, Jonathan Derouchie, Kali Smith, Stephen Smart, Dan Burritt, Renee Filippone, Mike Laanela, Jennifer Sheppard, Rhiannon Coppin – CBC News Vancouver – B.C. Votes 2013

Bruce Claggett, Denise Wong – News 1130 Radio – Twitter Townhall

Jack Webster Business, Industry & Economics Award
Endowed by Jean Cormier

Winner
Richard Chu, Jen St. Denis, Jenny Wagler, Nelson Bennett, Glen Korstrom, Joannah Connolly, Timothy Renshaw
Business in Vancouver and biv.com
Business in Vancouver B.C. election coverage

Finalists

Bob Mackin, Jon McComb, Greg Schott – CKNW AM 980 – A Look at Port Metro Vancouver

Daniel Wood – The Georgia Straight – Delta Projects Threaten Farms and Wildlife

Best Reporting - Chinese Language

Winner
Spencer Gall, Fairchild TV Magazine 26
Fairchild TV News and Current Affairs
Against the Odds: Aging Out of Foster Care

Finalists

Richard Li, James Fung, David Jang – Sing Tao Daily – A Chinese Miners' Controversy Stirs BC

Debbie Chen, Shang Gao, Diana Cui – Fairchild Radio FM96.1 – More Immigrants More Challenge

Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting

Winner
David P. Ball
The Tyee
Cross-border Coal War?

Finalists

Catherine Litt, Michele Young – Kamloops Daily News – A Duty to Remember

Tyler Olsen – Chilliwack Times – Living in a Death Trap

Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia

Winner
Peter McKnight
The Vancouver Sun
Neurolaw

Finalists

Kim Bolan – The Vancouver Sun – Inside the Angels

Rob Wipond – Focus Magazine – The Case for Electroshocking Mia

Jack Webster Award for Science, Technology, Health & Environment

Winner
Pamela Fayerman
The Vancouver Sun
Fallopian Tube Removal for Ovarian Cancer Prevention: a BC Innovation

Finalists

Cam Fortems, Michele Young – Kamloops Daily News – Condition Critical

Duncan McCue, James Roberts, Doug Trent, Michelle Billman, Mark Gryski – CBC News - The National – MOOC

City Mike Award (Commentator of the Year)
Presented in memory of Linda Webster

Winner
Simi Sara
CKNW NewsTalk, AM 980

Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner
David Baines

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