35th Webster Awards 2021 Finalists & Winners
Winners were announced during the Nov.3rd online Webster Awards.
FINALISTS – EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH REPORTING
WINNER!
Overdoses, BC’s original health crisis, worsen during COVID pandemic
Lori Culbert
Vancouver Sun & Province
COVID 19; Team Coverage
Keith Baldrey, Richard Zussman, John Hua, Grace Ke, Sophie Lui, Chris Gailus, Marsha Gabriel, Emad Agahi, Jonathan Bartlett
Global BC
The rise of the variants and how to respond
Andrew Nikiforuk
The Tyee
FINALISTS – EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
WINNER!
‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation. Inside the Force’s Web Spying Program
Bryan Carney
The Tyee
Ballard Power Systems
Brent Jang
The Globe and Mail
Hackers had ‘deep’ access to Whistler systems, docs show
Braden Dupuis, Clare Ogilvie
Pique Newsmagazine
FINALISTS – EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENT REPORTING
Thriving Together: Salmon, Berries, and People
‘Cúagilákv (Jess Housty)
Hakai Magazine
WINNER!
Fossil fuels and the coronavirus
Russ Francis
Focus Magazine
Canada is drowning in plastic waste – and recycling won’t save us
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Canada’s National Observer
FINALISTS – BEST REPORTING IN A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH
FINALISTS – EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
FINALISTS – BEST BREAKING NEWS REPORTING PRINT/ONLINE
WINNER!
Christie Mountain Wildfire grows, destroys home
Chelsea Powrie, Casey Richardson, Colin Dacre, Nich Johansen, Rob Gibson, Jon Manchester, Wayne Moore, Sarita Patel, Laura Brookes
Castanet News
MEC: A co-op goes private
Aleksandra Sagan, Catherine McIntyre
The Logic
Lynn Valley Stabbings
Kim Bolan, Scott Brown, David Carrigg, Lori Culbert, Nathan Griffiths, Joanne Lee-Young
Vancouver Sun & Province
FINALISTS – BEST BREAKING NEWS REPORTING RADIO
YVR Shooting
John Streit, Toby Kerr, Emad Agahi, Jason Gilder, Gord Macdonald
980 CKNW
New Westminster pier fire
John Copsey, Gord Macdonald, Janet Brown, Emily Lazatin
980 CKNW
WINNER!
Pier Park Fire
Yvette Brend, Drew Kerekes
CBC News Vancouver
FINALISTS – BEST BREAKING NEWS REPORTING TV/VIDEO
Presented in memory of Keith Bradbury
Arson Spree – The day three masonic halls were set on fire
David Molko, Regan Hasegawa, Alissa Thibault, Keri Adams, Jason Pires, Herb Ramos, Peter Bremner, Scott Connorton, Justin Borges, Jeannie Avelino, Mi-Jung Lee, Scott Roberts, Nafeesa Karim, Rhonda Fuller, Murray Castonguay, Kim Magi, Philip Sedlacek, Tanya Boguski, Cam Mitchell, Alex Huang, Scott Holman, Allie Miller, Sandra Hermiston, Alyse Kotyk, Kendra Mangione, Andrew Weichel, Rob Bloye, Dylan Adkins, Emily Chew.
CTV News Vancouver
WINNER!
Unmarked Graves Discovery
Paul Johnson, Jim Helgason, Catherine Urquhart, Alex Sumner, Darren Twiss
Global BC
YVR Shooting
Emad Agahi, Sarah MacDonald, Coleen Christie, Annie Wong, Jordan Armstrong, Brett Ballah, Pat Bell, Chris Allard and Kristen Robinson
Global BC
FINALISTS – BEST FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING – PRINT/ONLINE
Anatomy of a Hit
Kim Bolan
The Vancouver Sun
COVID-19 and the impact on elder care in B.C.
Don Urquhart
South Okanagan Times-Chronicle
WINNER!
WCB’s Opioid Addiction
Kathy Tomlinson
The Globe and Mail
FINALISTS – BEST FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING – RADIO /PODCAST
WINNER!
Gone Boys: Island Crime Season 2
Laura Palmer
Rogers Frequency Network
Access Denied
Cathy Browne, Catherine Rolfsen, Stephen Quinn
The Early Edition – CBC Vancouver
They & Us
Faith Fundal, Andrew Kurjata, Andrew Glass, Catherine Hansen, Will Howie, Shiral Tobin, CBC Prince George
CBC Prince George
FINALISTS – BEST FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING – TV/VIDEO
Our Youngest Victims: How BC’s opioid crisis is killing children
April Lawrence
CHEK News
WINNER!
Unmarked Graves: Canada’s Reckoning
Allison Hurst, Ben Miljure, David Molko, Bhinder Sajan, Nafeesa Karim, Mary Cranston, Maria Weisgarber, Alissa Thibault, Scott Hurst, Melanie Nagy, Gary Barndt, Jim Fong, Michelle Scott, Sabrina Gans
CTV News Vancouver
Smugglers Inn
Paul Johnson, Rumina Daya, Darrel Patton
Global BC
FINALISTS – EXCELLENCE IN DIVERSITY + INCLUSION REPORTING
WINNER!
Left behind in a pandemic
Christopher Cheung
The Tyee
Indian farmers’ protests
Neetu Garcha
Global BC
Valley woman makes historic name change for truth and reconciliation
Erin Haluschak
Comox Valley Record
FINALISTS – EXCELLENCE IN LEGAL JOURNALISM
Sponsored by the Law Society of British Columbia
IHIT Jeopardizes Cases
Rumina Daya
Global BC
Sanctioned: Double Criminality
Jason Proctor, Stephen Quinn, Vivian Luk, Natasha Aziz, Theresa Duvall
CBC Vancouver
WINNER!
The Police and City Hall
Dan Fumano
The Vancouver Sun
FINALISTS – BEST COMMUNITY REPORTING
WINNER!
Spending spree at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District?
Jessica Wallace
Kamloops This Week
Rape allegations connected to a popular bar lead to a reckoning for Victoria’s restaurant culture
Tori Marlan, Jimmy Thomson, Brishti Basu
Capital Daily
The Last Pin Topples
Dustin Godfrey
Burnaby Now
FINALISTS – EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS/INDUSTRY/LABOUR/ECONOMICS REPORTING
Endowed by Jean Cormier
WINNER!
The Corporate Push into B.C.’s Primary Care System: A Tyee Series
Andrew MacLeod
The Tyee
Vancouver’s housing permitting crisis
Frances Bula
The Globe and Mail
Retail Therapy: Local businesses battle the pandemic
Margaret Gallagher
CBC Radio
FINALISTS -COMMENTATOR OF THE YEAR – CITY MIKE AWARD
Presented in memory of Linda Webster
Christopher Foulds
Kamloops This Week
WINNER!
Les Leyne
Victoria Times Colonist
Gary Mason
The Globe and Mail