Webster Winners and Finalists
1987 to Present

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Douglas Todd
Vancouver Sun
1987
BEST REPORTING OF THE YEAR
Winner
Investigation: Is Vancouver's Chinatown dying?
Mike Howell
Vancouver Is Awesome/Glacier Media
2022
BEST COMMUNITY REPORTING
Finalist
‘They tried to extinguish us’: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh elder shares healing from residential school
Elizabeth McSheffrey
2023
EXCELLENCE IN ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTING
Winner
‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation. Inside the Force’s Web Spying Program
Bryan Carney
The Tyee
2021
EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
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
EXCELLENCE IN FEATURE REPORTING
(dis)integration)
Shiral Tobin, Rick Cluff
The Early Edition, CBC Radio One Vancouver
2015
BEST BREAKING NEWS REPORTING RADIO
20 Silent Years of Sexual Abuse
Lori Culbert & Dan Fumano
Vancouver Sun/The Province
2020
EXCELLENCE IN LEGAL JOURNALISM
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
BEST REPORTING - CHINESE LANGUAGE
2009 BC Provincial Election Issue Coverage
The Tyee News Team
The Tyee
2009
BEST BREAKING NEWS REPORTING PRINT/ONLINE
2019 Wildfires
Jon Azpiri, Amy Judd, Simon Little, Jen Okrusko, Richard Zussman
Globalnews.ca
2019
EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
Winner
2050: Degrees of Change
Johanna Wagstaffe, Polly Leger, Lee Rosevere, Shiral Tobin
CBC Radio One
2018
EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
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
EXCELLENCE IN FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING – TV/VIDEO
58 years into her life, Marsha Bradcoe found herself
Phil McLachlan
The Free Press
2017
EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY REPORTING
600 Fujian Boat People in BC
Victoria Chang/Joyce Li/Susanna Ng/Tammy Yeung
Ming Pao Daily News
2000
BEST REPORTING - CHINESE LANGUAGE
Finalist
70 Years after the Flood: Cheslatta’s Fight to Reclaim Its Territory
Amanda Follett Hosgood
The Tyee
2023
EXCELLENCE IN DIVERSITY + INCLUSION REPORTING
92-year old WWII veteran united with family of fallen soldier after decades-long search
Keri Coles
Oak Bay News
2018
EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY REPORTING
Finalist
A British Columbia welcome: Housing Ukrainian newcomers fleeing the war
Shannon Paterson
CTV Vancouver
2022
BEST FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING – TV / VIDEO
Finalist
A Century of Resilience: Overcoming and Learning from the Chinese Exclusion Act
Yuji Zhang, Ricky Tong, Jerome Evans, Charlene Ling
OMNI TV
2023
EXCELLENCE IN REPORTING IN A LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH
Finalist
A Charm Bracelet, a Chandelier and Where Public Art Turns Dark
Dorothy Woodend
The Tyee
2023
EXCELLENCE IN ARTS AND CULTURE REPORTING
A Chinese Miners' Controversy Stirs BC
Richard Li, James Fung, David Jang
Sing Tao Daily
2013
BEST REPORTING - CHINESE LANGUAGE
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
EXCELLENCE IN FEATURE/ENTERPRISE REPORTING - PRINT
A Convention of Sea Life
Frances Bula
The Vancouver Sun
2006
EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
Winner
A Crashing Nightmare
Winnie Hwo
Fairchild TV
1995
BEST REPORTING - CHINESE LANGUAGE
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
EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH REPORTING
A data-driven look at the recent past and near future of the Downtown Eastside
Travis Lupick
Georgia Straight Newspaper
2017
EXCELLENCE IN MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
A Day in a Drug Test
Ann Rees
The Province
1999
EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY REPORTING
A Duty to Remember
Catherine Litt, Michele Young
Kamloops Daily News
2013
EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY REPORTING
A Family's Fate
Tyler Olsen
Chilliwack Times
2014
EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY REPORTING
Winner
A Fork in the River
Gareth Kirkby
Burnaby News
1996
AWARD OF DISTINCTION
A Growing Concern
Linda Aylesworth
BCTV
2000
EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY REPORTING

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