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The 2009 Jack Webster Awards Winners
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2009 Jack Webster Awards winners
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Best News Reporting of the Year - Print
Finalists
- Kim Bolan – The Vancouver Sun – Gang Crisis in Metro Vancouver
- Lindsay Kines, Judith Lavoie – Times Colonist – Native Housing Crisis
Best News Reporting of the Year - Radio
Finalists
- Bob Keating – CBC Radio Nelson – Bladerunner
- Curt Petrovich – CBC Radio – Dirty Questions
Best News Reporting of the Year - Television
Presented in memory of Keith Bradbury
Finalists
- CHBC News Team – CHBC News – Rock Slide
- Lisa Rossington, Jon Woodward, Julia Foy, Kent Molgat – CTV British Columbia – Gang War
Best Feature Story - Print
Finalists
- Louise Dickson – Times Colonist – Anatomy of a Murder
- Douglas Todd – The Vancouver Sun – From the Ashes
Best Feature Story - Radio
Finalists
- Robert Doane, Betsy Trumpener – CBC Radio One-Northern BC – Last Call - Fetal Alcohol
- Tim Wohlberg – CKNW 980AM – No Scalpel, No Needle, No Children
Best Feature Story - Television
Finalists
- Priya Mann, Kent Simmonds – CFJC TV Kamloops – Remembering Afghanistan
- Elaine Yong – Global BC – Beyond the Great Wall
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Online Journalism
Finalists
- The Tyee News Team – The Tyee – 2009 BC Provincial Election Issue Coverage
- Chad Skelton – The Vancouver Sun – Parking Tickets
Jack Webster Business, Industry & Economics Award
Sponsored by Jean Cormier
Finalists
- Joan Chang, Rick Cluff, Laura Palmer – CBC Radio – Going for Broke
- Cheryl Rossi – The Vancouver Courier – Final Cut
Best Reporting - Chinese Language
Finalists
- 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
Finalists
- Monte Paulsen – The Tyee – A Home for All
- Hannah Sutherland – Peace Arch News – A Stolen Past
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia
Finalists
- Fabian Dawson, Ethan Baron – The Province – Meeting Mr. Big
- Jon Woodward, Stephen Smart, Kent Molgat, Jim Beatty – CTV British Columbia – Farmland for Sale - The John Les Investigation
Jack Webster Award for Science, Technology, Health & Environment
Finalists
- Peter Grainger – CTV British Columbia – Taser Science
- Elaine Yong, Sergio Magro, Monty Burt – Global BC – Lifestyle Challenge
City Mike Award (Commentator of the Year)
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
