Webster Winners and Finalists
1987 to Present

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Douglas Todd
Vancouver Sun
1987
Winner
Investigation: Is Vancouver's Chinatown dying?
Mike Howell
Vancouver Is Awesome/Glacier Media
2022
Finalist
'Revolving door at the courthouse': How a B.C. man racked up 21 impaired driving convictions
Glenda Luymes / Abbotsford
Vancouver Sun / Province
2024
Finalist
‘They tried to extinguish us’: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh elder shares healing from residential school
Elizabeth McSheffrey
2023
Winner
‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation. Inside the Force’s Web Spying Program
Bryan Carney
The Tyee
2021
Finalist
“The New Residential School System”: How a First Nation Rallied against the Foster Care System
Amy Romer, Harley Rustad, Lucy Uprichard
The Walrus
2023
(dis)integration)
Shiral Tobin, Rick Cluff
The Early Edition, CBC Radio One Vancouver
2015
20 Silent Years of Sexual Abuse
Lori Culbert & Dan Fumano
Vancouver Sun/The Province
2020
Winner
20 Years of Vancouver Chinatown's Revitalization: Where Will It Lead?
Yuji Zhang, Kristin Johnson, Guo Ding, Nathen Sekhon, Richard Tang, Ricky Tong, Omni Camera Crew
OMNI TV
2020
2009 BC Provincial Election Issue Coverage
The Tyee News Team
The Tyee
2009
2019 Wildfires
Jon Azpiri, Amy Judd, Simon Little, Jen Okrusko, Richard Zussman
Globalnews.ca
2019
Finalist
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
CBC Vancouver
2024
Winner
2050: Degrees of Change
Johanna Wagstaffe, Polly Leger, Lee Rosevere, Shiral Tobin
CBC Radio One
2018
35-Minute Rescue Delay Prompts Ministry Investigation
Christian Amundson, Liam Britten, Fiona Hopewell Jensen, Maggie MacPherson, Belle Puri, Eric Rankin, Paisley Woodward
CBC Vancouver
2020
58 years into her life, Marsha Bradcoe found herself
Phil McLachlan
The Free Press
2017
600 Fujian Boat People in BC
Victoria Chang/Joyce Li/Susanna Ng/Tammy Yeung
Ming Pao Daily News
2000
Winner
70 Years after the Flood: Cheslatta’s Fight to Reclaim Its Territory
Amanda Follett Hosgood
The Tyee
2023
92-year old WWII veteran united with family of fallen soldier after decades-long search
Keri Coles
Oak Bay News
2018
Finalist
A ‘predator’ at CSIS
Darryl Greer
The Canadian Press
2024
Finalist
A British Columbia welcome: Housing Ukrainian newcomers fleeing the war
Shannon Paterson
CTV Vancouver
2022
Finalist
A Century of Resilience: Overcoming and Learning from the Chinese Exclusion Act
Yuji Zhang, Ricky Tong, Jerome Evans, Charlene Ling
OMNI TV
2023
Finalist
A Charm Bracelet, a Chandelier and Where Public Art Turns Dark
Dorothy Woodend
The Tyee
2023
A Chinese Miners' Controversy Stirs BC
Richard Li, James Fung, David Jang
Sing Tao Daily
2013
Winner
A community response: How the worst overdose epidemic in Vancouver's history left the Downtown Eastside to fend for itself
Travis Lupick, Amanda Siebert
Georgia Straight Newspaper
2017
A Convention of Sea Life
Frances Bula
The Vancouver Sun
2006
Winner
A Crashing Nightmare
Winnie Hwo
Fairchild TV
1995
Winner
A Crisis in Care: The Family Doctor Shortage in Greater Victoria
Jean Paetkau, Deborah Wilson, Kathryn Marlow, Madeline Green, Megan Thomas, Robyn Burns, Gregor Craigie, Bridgette Watson, Andrew Kurjata, Sterling Eyford and Rohit Joseph.
CBC Victoria
2022
A data-driven look at the recent past and near future of the Downtown Eastside
Travis Lupick
Georgia Straight Newspaper
2017
A Day in a Drug Test
Ann Rees
The Province
1999
Finalist
A deeper look at the Khalistan movement
CBC News B.C.
CBC British Columbia
2024

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