The Bill Good Award

The award honours a B.C. individual or organization that makes a significant contribution to journalism in the province, or addresses a community’s needs and benefits via journalism.  In determining the recipient of the Good award, the Foundation will consider the achievements and contributions to societal good from journalism educators, news reporters and managers, media organizations and their business leaders. Please note that current Jack Webster Award and Shelley Fralic Award judges, plus board members of the Jack Webster Foundation and committee members of the Jack Webster Foundation are also not eligible to be nominated for this award.

Definition:  “significant contributions”:  Prospective candidate’s work must have weight, import and impact; work must be recognized by peers and the public; work must reach broad, diverse audiences; the prospective candidate must have achieved leadership in the journalistic community and the community at large.

Definition:  “community needs and benefits”:  Prospective candidate’s work should have changed societal conditions, moved governments, resulted in greater justice for disadvantaged people/communities, redressed historic wrongs, enhanced basic rights of access to services for citizens, held governments and corporate institutions to a high standard.

Definition:  “improvements to societal good”: Prospective candidate’s work has lead to significant improvements in public services such as education, healthcare, childcare, policing, environmental protection, the arts, transportation, civic infrastructure.

Recipients of this award, like the Bruce Hutchison Lifetime Achievement Award, are chosen after careful consideration by the Jack Webster Foundation Board of Directors. Please note that all other Jack Webster Awards are chosen by an independent juried process that operates at strict arm’s-length from the Jack Webster Foundation Board of Directors.

1. Explain how the nominee has made a significant contribution to the journalism community or to a community at large via journalism.
2. Outline how the nominee’s work addressed a community’s needs and created benefits through the practice of their journalism or journalism education?
3. How has the nominee created demonstrable improvements to societal good in their communities?
4. In what ways is the nominee demonstrating inventiveness, innovation, and the embrace of new media models?
5. Does the nominee or their work embrace inclusivity and elevate under-represented and/or un-reported issues and communities? How so?
6. Is there any other relevant information you would like to provide to support the nomination of this person? (Provide links to websites, published or broadcast material if helpful.)

If nominating a person, please attach the nominee’s resume. If this is not available, provide a link to the person’s LinkedIn profile and if this nomination is for an organization, please provide a link to the organization’s website.

Please attach two letters of support. Note: one of these letters may be from the person submitting the nomination.

Nominations for the 2025 award will be accepted until Sunday, May 18th, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.  However, you may make a nomination now for consideration for the 2026 award.  The 2025 recipient will be announced in the summer.

Nominations will be held and considered for 3 years. No need to re-submit a nomination during this period.