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The 2016 Jack Webster Awards Winners and Finalists
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Best News Reporting of the Year - Print
Finalists
- Laura Kane – The Canadian Press – Campus Sex Assaults
- Sarah Petrescu, Carla Wilson, Katherine Dedyna, Bill Cleverley, Louise Dickson, Richard Watts, Lindsay Kines, Jeff Bell, Les Leyne, Jack Knox, Cindy E. Harnett, Bruce Stotesbury and Darren Stone – Times Colonist – Victoria's Tent City
Best News Reporting of the Year - Radio
Finalists
- Megan Thomas – CBC Radio News – Tragedy off Tofino
- Wil Fundal, Stephanie Mercier, Robert Doane, Chris Corday – CBC/Radio-Canada – When Mountains Move
Best News Reporting of the Year - Television
Presented in memory of Keith Bradbury
Finalists
- Eric Rankin, Yvette Brend – CBC Vancouver News – Metis Adoption
- Belle Puri, Chris Brown, Chris Corday, Dan Burritt, Eric Rankin, Glen Kugelstadt, Johanna Wagstaffe, Mike McArthur, Richard Zussman, Susana da Silva, Paisley Woodward – CBC Vancouver News – Tofino Leviathan II sinking
Best Feature Story - Print
Finalists
- Justine Hunter – The Globe and Mail – Greenpeace, a history
- Jane Seyd – North Shore News – The New Gold Rush
Best Feature Story - Radio
Finalists
- Jean Paetkau, Robyn Burns, Kirstie Hudson – CBC Radio Victoria – A Loss of Innocence
- Elaine Chau, Manusha Janakiram, Lee Rosevere – CBC Radio One – Wui Gwai: Hong Kong Homecoming
Best Feature Story - Television
Finalists
- Adam Sawatsky, Brendan Strain – CTV News Vancouver Island – Bus Boy
- Sonia Deol, Tony Clark, Ted Anhorn – Global News – Remembering Maple Batalia
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Digital Journalism
Finalists
- Alison Broddle, Tamara Baluja, Catherine Rolfsen, Bal Brach and the CBC.ca/BC web team – CBC News – Finding Refuge: Meet some of the Syrian Refugees
- Jon Woodward, Kendra Mangione – CTV Vancouver – Where the kids are
Jack Webster Business, Industry & Economics Award
Endowed by Jean Cormier
Finalists
- Travis Lupick – The Georgia Straight – Confidential documents reveal B.C.'s new minimum wage was one big mistake
- Jeremy Allingham – CBC Radio / cbc.ca – Hopped Up: Competition, challenges and change in B.C.'s craft beer industry
Best Reporting - Chinese Language
Finalists
- Jose Ng, Kelvin Chung, Aiken Lau, Edward Liu, Andy Cheung, Edward Chun, Luna Tsoi – CHMB AM1320 – Home Affordability
- Spencer Gall – Fairchild Television Magazine 26 – How Can I Let Go?
Jack Webster Award for Community Reporting
Finalists
- Don Descoteau, Dan Ebenal, Pamela Roth, Arnold Lim, Don Denton, Lily Chan – Goldstream News Gazette – Sewage in the CRD
- Tim Petruk – Kamloops This Week – Triumph & Tragedy: The Rudy Poeschek Story
Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism
Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia
Finalists
- Tamsyn Burgmann – The Canadian Press – Not Criminally Responsible
- Stephen Hume – The Vancouver Sun – Province Failed The Public By Withholding Water Test Data
Jack Webster Award for Science, Technology, Health & Environment
Sponsored by Genome British Columbia
Finalists
- Duncan McCue, James Roberts, Glen Kugelstadt – CBC TV – Bill's Place
- Francis Plourde, Pierre Beaudoin, Harold Dupuis – Le Semaine Verte, Radio-Canada/The National, CBC – How the high demand for almonds is affecting California
City Mike Award (Commentator of the Year)
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
Bill Good Award
Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award
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Bill Good Award
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