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The 2007 Jack Webster Awards Winners and Finalists


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2007 Jack Webster Awards winners
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Best News Reporting of the Year - Print
Winner
Chad Skelton
The Vancouver Sun
Gambling in B.C.
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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
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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
Presented in memory of Keith Bradbury
Winner
Jim Beatty
CTV British Columbia
Filthy Foster Home
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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
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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
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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
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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
Endowed by Jean Cormier
Winner
Ross Howard
BCBusiness
The Lost City
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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
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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
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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
Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia
Winner
Peter McKnight
The Vancouver Sun
Series of columns on legal issues
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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 & Technology
Winner
Maurice Bridge
The Vancouver Sun
Rewiring the Brain
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Finalists
  • Scott Simpson – The Vancouver Sun – Climate Change
  • Ed Watson, Julie Nolin, Dana Hutchings, Jennifer Crosby and Mary Griffin – CH Vancouver Island – Climate Change


City Mike Award (Commentator of the Year)
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
Winner
Peter McKnight
The Vancouver Sun
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Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner
Jim Harrison
CHNL Radio, Kamloops
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