2023 Webster Awards Winners & Finalists

BEST NEWS REPORTING OF THE YEAR

Presented in the Memory of Keith Bradbury

Rental bias in strata

Vancouver Sun, The Province

Dan Fumano, Lori Culbert

Winner!

FAILED IN LIFE AND DEATH: THE STORY OF NOELLE O’SOUP

Global BC

Sarah MacDonald and Clayton Little

BC’s Housing Crisis

CTV Vancouver

Michele Brunoro, Alissa Thibault, St.John Alexander, Penny Daflos

COMMENTATOR OF THE YEAR – CITY MIKE AWARD

Presented in memory of Linda Webster

Rob Shaw

CHEK News/Glacier Media/Daily Hive

Eden Fineday

IndigiNews

Winner!

Daphne Bramham

Vancouver Sun

EXCELLENCE IN ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTING

Winner!

Arts in the Crosshairs

The Globe and Mail

Marsha Lederman

A Charm Bracelet, a Chandelier and Where Public Art Turns Dark

The Tyee

Dorothy Woodend

‘They tried to extinguish us’: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh elder shares healing from residential school

Elizabeth McSheffrey

EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS/INDUSTRY/LABOUR REPORTING
Endowed by Jean Cormier

Business election action list

Business in Vancouver

Team Business in Vancouver

Big Risks, Long Hours, Low Pay: The Lives of BC Log Truckers

The Tyee

Ben Parfitt

Winner!

Banking on the Seaweed Rush

Hakai Magazine

Nicola Jones

EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY REPORTING

Presented by the Al Roadburg Foundation

Winner!

Two-part series: Community rallies for Carsyn Seaweed

IndigiNews

Anna McKenzie, Shalu Mehta

Downtown Eastside emergency: An inside look at B.C.’s busiest fire hall

Vancouver Is Awesome

Mike Howell

Death at 844 Johnson: “We both knew this building was going to kill him.”

Times Colonist

Louise Dickson

EXCELLENCE IN DIVERSITY + INCLUSION REPORTING

Under the White Gaze

The Tyee

Christopher Cheung

First Nations’ real estate megaprojects game-changing for Metro Vancouver

Vancouver Sun / Province

Dan Fumano, Lori Culbert

Winner!

70 Years after the Flood: Cheslatta’s Fight to Reclaim Its Territory

The Tyee

Amanda Follett Hosgood

EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENT REPORTING

Winner!

The worst house guests: European green crabs are invading B.C. waters

The Narwhal

Ainslie Cruickshank

Kokanee Glacier can’t be saved

Nelson Star

Tyler Harper

Bracing for Disasters

The Tyee

Francesca Fionda with files from: The Climate Disaster Project, Aldyn Chwelos, Gage Smith, Geena Mortfield, Michael John Lo, Christina Gervais, Amber Bear, Emilie Wren, Sean Holman PHOTOGRAPHY: Jen Osborne, Philip McLachlan DIGITAL PRODUCER AND DATE VISUALIZATION: Andrew Munroe DATA ANALYSIS SUPPORT: Jens von Bergmann EDITOR: David Beers

2023 Webster Awards Winners & Finalists

BEST NEWS REPORTING OF THE YEAR

Rental bias in strata

Winner!

FAILED IN LIFE AND DEATH: THE STORY OF NOELLE O’SOUP

BC’s Housing Crisis

COMMENTATOR OF THE YEAR – CITY MIKE AWARD

Rob Shaw

Eden Fineday

Winner!

Daphne Bramham

EXCELLENCE IN ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTING

Winner!

Arts in the Crosshairs

A Charm Bracelet, a Chandelier and Where Public Art Turns Dark

‘They tried to extinguish us’: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh elder shares healing from residential school

EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS/INDUSTRY/LABOUR REPORTINGEndowed by Jean Cormier

Business election action list

Big Risks, Long Hours, Low Pay: The Lives of BC Log Truckers

Winner!

Banking on the Seaweed Rush

EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY REPORTING

Winner!

Two-part series: Community rallies for Carsyn Seaweed

Downtown Eastside emergency: An inside look at B.C.’s busiest fire hall

Death at 844 Johnson: “We both knew this building was going to kill him.”

EXCELLENCE IN DIVERSITY + INCLUSION REPORTING

Under the White Gaze

First Nations’ real estate megaprojects game-changing for Metro Vancouver

Winner!

70 Years after the Flood: Cheslatta’s Fight to Reclaim Its Territory

EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENT REPORTING

Winner!

The worst house guests: European green crabs are invading B.C. waters

Kokanee Glacier can’t be saved

Bracing for Disasters

EXCELLENCE IN FEATURE REPORTING

Winner!

The Demon River

Escape from Crimea to Canada

“The New Residential School System”: How a First Nation Rallied against the Foster Care System

EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH REPORTING

Would my dad have survived today’s mental-health system?

The Decline of Cancer Care in B.C.

Winner!

DIVERSION OF DRUGS

EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

The Man in the Brown Van : Part 1 Island Crime Season 3

Winner!

The Blue Wall of Police Accountability

Deforestation Inc.: Who is behind B.C.’s pulp and paper giant?

EXCELLENCE IN LEGAL JOURNALISM

Winner!

This court case could change the future of mining in B.C.

Psychosis. Then Gunshots from Police. Inside Dani Cooper’s Death

B.C.’s Broken Bail System

EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM

Winner!

The complicated truth about pipelines crossing Wet’suwet’en territory

How to Surf Into The Olympics

Disaster Land Grabs Worldwide and in British Columbia

EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY REPORTING

This story about AI was written by a human

Winner!

Microsoft president Brad Smith is leading the vision of a connected Cascadia

Cracks in the mirror: The uncertain future of Lululemon’s half-billion-dollar smart-fitness bet

EXCELLENCE IN REPORTING IN A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH

Winner!

Surrey Health Care in Crisis – An In Depth Report

Magazine 26 – Speechless No More

A Century of Resilience: Overcoming and Learning from the Chinese Exclusion Act

EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS/INDUSTRY/LABOUR REPORTING
Endowed by Jean Cormier