Webster Awards Finalists & Winners 2025

Best News Reporting of the Year – Print/Digital

Best News Reporting of the Year – TV/Video

Global BC

Interior Fires

Cassidy Mosconi, Richard Zussman, Troy Charles, Elissa Carpenter, Pat Bell, Mike Timbrell, Justin Okines, Tony Clark, Derek Brade, Chris Allard

CTV News Vancouver

B.C. Wildfire Emergency

Penny Daflos, Alissa Thibault, Abigail Turner, St. John Alexander, Ben Miljure, Jordan Jiang, Curtis Allen

CBC Vancouver

2023 B.C. Wildfire Community Coverage

Michelle Ghoussoub, Lien Yeung, Jon Hernandez, Yvette Brend, Renee Filippone, GP Mendoza, Brady Strachan, Christian Amundson, Chris Corday, Tom Popyk, Corey Bullock, Martin Diotte, Amar Parmar, Jill Constantine, Meera Bains

Best News Reporting of the Year – TV/Video

Global BC

Interior Fires

Cassidy Mosconi, Richard Zussman, Troy Charles, Elissa Carpenter, Pat Bell, Mike Timbrell, Justin Okines, Tony Clark, Derek Brade, Chris Allard

CTV News Vancouver

B.C. Wildfire Emergency

Penny Daflos, Alissa Thibault, Abigail Turner, St. John Alexander, Ben Miljure, Jordan Jiang, Curtis Allen

CBC Vancouver

2023 B.C. Wildfire Community Coverage

Excellence in Feature Reporting – Print/Digital

Hakai Magazine

In Defense of the Rat

J. B. MacKinnon

The Globe and Mail

Gold Diggers in a Cold Sea

Nancy Macdonald

The Globe and Mail

Edge of Extinction

Justine Hunter

Excellence in Feature Reporting – Radio/Audio

CBC Kelowna

In the Eye of the Firestorm: Chris Walker on the 2023 BC Wildfires

Chris Walker

CBC Vancouver

Better Late

Cathy Browne, Jennifer Wilson

Bob Keating

A River Shared

Bob Keating

Excellence in Feature Reporting – TV/Video

Global BC

Stanley Park Resident

Alissa Thibault, Sergio Magro, Sharron Bates, Brian Dutkewich

BCIT News

Power of the Paddle – Documentary

Sonya Kuitenbrouwer, Maddison Buckingham, Aleigha Andres, Grace McLeod

CBC British Columbia

A deeper look at the Khalistan movement

CBC News B.C.

Excellence in Investigative & Enterprise Journalism

Vancouver Sun / Province

How the tragic overdose death of a UVIC student sparked changed in B.C.

Lori Culbert

APTN

APTN Investigates: Peters’ Indian Problem

Cullen Crozier, Kenneth Jackson

The Canadian Press

A ‘predator’ at CSIS

Darryl Greer

Excellence in Innovative Journalism

CBC Vancouver

They lived, they were loved, then suddenly they were gone: Stories of lives lost to toxic drugs

Courtney Dickson, Akshay Kulkarni, Arrthy Thayaparan, Bridgette Watson, Jon Azpiri, Michelle Gomez, Rhianna Schmunk, Tanis Fowler, Jan Zeschky, Franny Karlinsky, Andrew McManus, Robert Davidson, Baneet Braich

The Globe and Mail

On Queue: Lining up at the Warehouse Sale

Ming Wong, Alana Paterson, Susan Krashinsky Robertson

The Narwhal

Nourish: How First Nations are bringing food sovereignty back to the table

Stephanie Kwetásel’wet Wood, Michelle Cyca, Lindsay Sample, Karan Saxena, Ainslie Cruickshank, Matt Simmons, Shawn Parkinson, Karlene Harvey, Jesse Winter, Marty Clemens, Jennifer Gauthier