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The 2009 Jack Webster Awards Winners and Finalists

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2009 Jack Webster Awards winners
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Best News Reporting of the Year - Print

Winner
Gary Mason
The Globe and Mail
The Olympic Village Scandal

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

Winner
Steve Lus, Paisley Woodward, Jennifer Leask
CBC Radio Vancouver
Reality Check

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

Winner
Kathy Tomlinson, Enza Uda, Eric Rankin, Paisley Woodward
CBC News Vancouver at Six
Prescription for Profit

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

Winner
Denise Ryan
The Vancouver Sun
The Return of a Warrior

Finalists

Louise Dickson – Times Colonist – Anatomy of a Murder

Douglas Todd – The Vancouver Sun – From the Ashes

Best Feature Story - Radio

Winner
Curt Petrovich
CBC National Radio
Rowing for Redemption

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

Winner
Frédéric Zalac, Alex Shprintsen
CBC/Radio - Canada
The Taser Test/Taser: Essai Choc

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

Winner
CBC News Team
CBC News Vancouver
BC Votes 2009

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

Winner
Shannon Paterson
CTV British Columbia
Condo Crash

Finalists

Joan Chang, Rick Cluff, Laura Palmer – CBC Radio – Going for Broke

Cheryl Rossi – The Vancouver Courier – Final Cut

Best Reporting - Chinese Language

Winner
Winnie Hwo, Claudia Lau
Fairchild TV
Sin City North - M26

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

Winner
Tim Petruk
Kamloops This Week
Targeting Teens within Seconds

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

Winner
Peter McKnight
The Vancouver Sun
Governing Through Crime

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

Winner
Larry Pynn
The Vancouver Sun
Shifting Seas

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

Winner
Les Leyne
The Victoria Times Colonist

Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner
Bill Good
CKNW/CTV British Columbia

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