Star gets six National Newspaper Award nominations
The Toronto Star snagged six nominations for the 2015 National Newspaper Awards.
The Star took two out of three finalist spots in the Project of the Year category for Olivia Carville’s reporting on human sex trafficking and a Star team project on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
The Star also had one nomination each in the following categories:
Investigations: Jayme Poisson and Jesse McLean for a look into how an alarming number of police officers in the Toronto area are seemingly out of control —“Breaking Badge”
Long Feature: Katie Daubs for the story of Beatrice White, the teenager who in 1912 used funnel traps baited with liver to kill a staggering 543,360 flies
Presentation: the Toronto Star team for 2015 federal election Star Touch tablet package
Sports Photo: Steve Russell for a photo of a Canadian baseball player celebrating the 10th-inning win over the U.S. in the Pan Am Games
“The two stories nominated for Project of the Year — Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women and Olivia Carville’s Sex Trafficking series — along with the Investigations nomination for “Breaking Badge” by Jayme Poisson and Jesse McLean, demonstrate the best of the Star’s investigative tradition, as well as the storytelling power of Star Touch,” said Toronto Star editor-in-chief Michael Cooke.
The Globe and Mail received the most nominations, with19 entries on the list of finalists, and Montreal’s La Presse was next with seven. The Winnipeg Free Press received five, and the Ottawa Citizen nabbed four.
The Canadian Press picked up three nods, and the Brandon Sun, Hamilton Spectator, Montreal Gazette, National Post, Reuters and the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix landed two apiece. In all, the National Newspaper Awards office announced 66 nominations in 21 categories, selected from 1,100 entries for work published in 2015.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Edmonton on May 27. Winners receive $1,000.