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The 2014 Jack Webster Awards Winners and Finalists


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Best News Reporting of the Year - Print
Winner
Frances Bula
The Globe and Mail
PHS
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Finalists
  • Louise Dickson, Lindsay Kines, Rob Shaw, Mike Devlin, Jeff Bell, Sarah Petrescu, Jack Knox, Les Leyne, Richard Watts, Cindy Harnett, Carla Wilson, Iain Hunter – Times Colonist – Canada Day Terror Plot
  • James Keller – The Canadian Press – Highway of Tears


Best News Reporting of the Year - Radio
Winner
Curt Petrovich
CBC National Radio News
Typhoon Haiyan
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Finalists
  • Bob Keating – CBC Radio – Green Rush
  • Curt Petrovich – CBC National Radio News – Killer Slide


Best News Reporting of the Year - Television
Presented in memory of Keith Bradbury
Winner
Kathy Tomlinson, Enza Uda, Robb Douglas
CBC News Vancouver
McJobs
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Finalists
  • Natalie Clancy, Paisley Woodward, Robb Douglas – CBC News Vancouver – Code White
  • Kendall Hanson, Dean Stoltz, Garry Frang, Glenn Olsen, Jim Beatty, Mary Griffin, Dana Hutchings, Rob Germain and team – CHEK News – Sawmill Shooting


Best Feature Story - Print
Winner
Lori Culbert, Tracy Sherlock
The Vancouver Sun
From Care to Where?
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Finalists
  • Cheryl Chan, Sam Cooper, Susan Lazaruk, Elaine O'Connor, Cassidy Olivier, Jason Payne, Arlen Redekop, Jon Ferry, J.J. Adams, Ros Guggi, Katie Mercer, Carolyn Soltau – The Province – Racism in Paradise
  • Barry Link, Michael Kissinger, Naoibh O'Connor, Dan Toulgoet, Megan Stewart, Cheryl Rossi, Mike Howell, Sandra Thomas, Fiona Hughes, Andrew Fleming, Rebecca Blissett, Jennifer Thuncher, Adrian Cunningham – Vancouver Courier – Vancouver Special


Best Feature Story - Radio
Winner
Mark Leiren-Young, Yvonne Gall
CBC Radio
Moby Doll: The Whale That Changed the World
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Finalists
  • Margaret Gallagher – CBC Radio, The Early Edition – At Home At Last
  • Stephen Quinn, Theresa Duvall, Jodie Martinson, Jennifer Chen, Matthew Lazin-Ryder, Lisa Christiansen – CBC Radio – Gay and Grey


Best Feature Story - Television
Winner
Allan Hopkins, Pieter Romer, Winston Xin
CTV Vancouver - First Story
Residential School Lost and Found
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Finalists
  • Duncan McCue, James Roberts, Michelle Billman, Doug Trent – CBC The National – Residential Schools and Hockey
  • Chris Brown, Brett Hyde, Brian Dutkewich – CBC The National – Tearing It Up: Big White's Paralympic Snowboarders


Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Digital Journalism
Winner
Shannon Miller, Erik Rolfsen, Jennifer Saltman, Ben Ngai, Rafe Arnott, David Rigler, Ginger Sedlarova
The Province
Homicide, Surrey Edition
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Finalists
  • Chad Skelton, Kevin Griffin – The Vancouver Sun – Auto Crime and Bike Theft
  • Ana Komnenic – MINING.com – TIMELINE: Pascua Lama - from $1.5 billion to $8.5 billion to suspension


Jack Webster Business, Industry & Economics Award
Endowed by Jean Cormier
Winner
Frances Bula
Vancouver Magazine
The Modern Drive-Through
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Finalists
  • Matt O'Grady – BCBusiness – High Hopes
  • Brent Jang, Iain Marlow – The Globe and Mail – LNG Boom


Best Reporting - Chinese Language
Winner
James Fung, Wai Man Ip and team
Sing Tao Daily (BC Edition)
BC Government's Apology to Chinese Community - The Inside Story
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Finalists
  • Johann Chang and Travena Lee – Fairchild Radio – Chinese-only Signs
  • Otto Tang, Tina Song, Karen So, Guo Ding, Bowen Zhang, Doug Cheng – Omni TV – Road to the BC Chinese Apology


Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting
Winner
Rob Wipond
Focus Magazine
Coup de Police
Finalists
  • Tyler Olsen – Chilliwack Times – A Family's Fate
  • Tamara Cunningham – Nanaimo News Bulletin – A Journey with ALS


Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia
Winner
Duncan McCue
CBC The National
Last Right
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Finalists
  • Natalie Clancy, Paisley Woodward, Alan Stewart – CBC News Vancouver – Deadbeat Tenants
  • Bal Brach, Bob Keating, Enza Uda, Brett Hyde – CBC News – Tim Hortons Temporary Foreign Workers Abuse


Jack Webster Award for Science, Technology, Health & Environment
Sponsored by Genome British Columbia
Winner
Dan Fumano
The Province
Our Water Series
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Finalists
  • Lori Culbert – The Vancouver Sun – Drug Watchdog vs Big Pharma
  • Duncan McCue, James Roberts, Doug Trent, Michelle Billman – CBC The National – Imagine the Fire


City Mike Award (Commentator of the Year)
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
Winner
Allen Garr
Vancouver Courier
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Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner
Brian Coxford
Global BC
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