Congratulations to all of the 2017 CAJ Awards finalists!

OTTAWA, April 2, 2018 /CNW/ - The Canadian Association of Journalists is pleased to release the full list of nominees in the 2017 CAJ Awards program.

The recipients in each category will be announced May 5 at the CAJ Awards gala and conference banquet in Toronto, part of the #CAJ18 annual conference at the Hyatt Regency Toronto.

Please note the media outlet listed is where the finalist worked at the time the entry was broadcast/published or where the particular entry was broadcast/published. Finalists are listed alphabetically by media outlet. Links, where available, have been provided in the titles of the finalists' entries; for series or portfolios, the linked item is the first.

The finalists in the JHR / CAJ EMERGING INDIGENOUS JOURNALIST AWARD are:

Willow Fiddler
Portfolio entry
APTN National News

Kyle Muzyka
Portfolio entry
CBC News Edmonton

Creeden Martell
Portfolio entry
CBC News Saskatchewan

Emilee Gilpin
Portfolio entry
National Observer

The categories below were originally announced on Thursday, March 29, 2018.

The finalists in the OPEN MEDIA category are:

Michele Jarvie
Can the Sad, Short Life of One Boy Save Others?
Calgary Herald

Charles Rusnell, Jennie Russell
Private Health, Public Risk?
CBC News Edmonton

Rachel Mendleson, Lynn McAuley, Jon Ohayon, Anne Marie Jackson, Tania Pereira, Brian Liu, Cameron Tulk, David Schnitman, Fadi Yaacoub, Andrew Bailey, Linda Guerriero, Lynette Fortune, Mark Kelley, Loretta Hicks, Hans Vanderzande, Jim Williamson, Julian Sher, John Chipman, Kathleen Goldhar, Elizabeth Hoath, Susan Ormiston
Motherisk investigation
CBC Radio – The Current, CBC The Fifth Estate, The Toronto Star

Andrew Duffy
Fire and Death in the Ottawa Valley
Ottawa Citizen

Laura Kane, Geordon Omand, Joanna Smith, Sidhartha Banerjee, Paola Loriggio, Lucas Timmons, Kevin Ward
Jordan Decision – One Year Later
The Canadian Press

The finalists in the COMMUNITY MEDIA category are:

Cullen Bird
Pipe Dreams
Fort McMurray Today

Michael Robinson
New Brunswick's Sidelined Ambulances
Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, N.B.

Jackie Jardine, Steve Goodwin, Heather Brimicombe
25 Years Westray
The Advocate, Pictou County, N.S.

Travis Lupick, Alexander Kim
Rising violence in Vancouver hospitals
The Georgia Straight / Cited Podcast

The finalists in the OPEN BROADCAST FEATURE category are:

Holly Moore
The cure was worse
APTN Investigates

Rob Smith
Killer Pain
APTN Investigates

Harvey Cashore, Kimberly Ivany, Gillian Findlay, Loretta Hicks, Frederic Zalac, Martyne Bourdeau
The Untouchables
CBC News: The Fifth Estate

Shiral Tobin, Johanna Wagstaffe, Polly Leger, Lee Rosevere
2050: Degrees of change
CBC News - Vancouver

Sam Fenn, Alexander B. Kim, Travis Lupick
The Heroin Clinic
Cited Podcast / The Georgia Straight

The finalists in the OPEN BROADCAST NEWS category are:

Kathleen Martens, Paul Barnsley, Holly Moore
Truth? Or reconciliation?
APTN Investigates

Nahlah Ayed, Stephanie Jenzer, Richard Devey
Rohingya Muslim Crisis
CBC News – The National

Margaret Evans, Lily Martin, Richard Devey
Mugabe - What Happened?
CBC News – The World this Weekend and The National

Patrick McGuire, Tania Natscheff, Michael Gruzuk, Ben Makuch, Mia Sheldon, Sofi Langis
The Soldiers of Odin: Inside Canada's Extremist Vigilante Group
VICE News

The finalists in the COMMUNITY BROADCAST category are:

Dean Stoltz
Dying with Dignity
CHEK News, Victoria, B.C.

Abigail Bimman
Life in prison
CTV News Kitchener

The finalists in the CAJ / GLOBENEWSWIRE DATA JOURNALISM AWARD are:

Francesca Fionda, Emma Jones, Caitlin Havlak, Katie Lewis, Rachel Nixon
In search of Canada's elusive shadow population
Discourse Media

Drake Fenton, Elizabeth Payne, Aedan Helmer
Ottawa long-term care
Ottawa Citizen

Robyn Doolittle, Michael Pereira, Jeremy Agius, Laura Blenkinsop
Unfounded
The Globe and Mail

Grant Robertson and Tom Cardoso
Easy Money - How regulators have allowed white-collar criminals to commit securities offences, make millions, escape with minimal punishment - and then do it all again
The Globe and Mail

Gordon Hoekstra
Political contributions & influence – BC
Vancouver Sun

The finalists in the ONLINE MEDIA category are:

Elizabeth Thompson
Aga Khan island that hosted Trudeau owned by company with offshore ties, records show
CBC News

Geoff Leo
The China Connection
CBC News Saskatchewan

Nicolas Mesly, Hugo Jolion-David
Quand l'agriculture tue
Huffington Post Quebec

Mike De Souza
Inside the National Energy Board
National Observer

The finalists in the PHOTOJOURNALISM category are:

Ed Ou
Portfolio drawn from Children of a Poisoned River
CBC News

Nick Iwanyshyn
2017 porfolio
Freelancer

Darryl Dyck
B.C. Wildfires portfolio
Freelancer / The Canadian Press

Steve Russell
2017 portfolio
Toronto Star

The finalists in the SCOOP category are:

Willow Fiddler, Kenneth Jackson
New Evidence: Tammy Keeash
APTN News

Janice Johnston
'I'm the victim and ... I'm in shackles': The Angela Cardinal story
CBC News Edmonton

Erica Johnson, James Roberts, Amar Parmar, Dave Pizer, Karen Burgess
The Big Bank Upsell
CBC News Go Public

Steven Chase, Robert Fife
No blind trust for Morneau
The Globe and Mail

Grant Robertson
Tainted: They turned to cannabis for relief. But after getting sick, patients are fighting for answers
The Globe and Mail

The finalists in the DAILY EXCELLENCE category are:

Kenneth Jackson
Three First Nations girls died in Ontario group homes in last 6 months
APTN National News

Rebecca Collard
The fall of Kirkuk
Freelancer / CBC News

Carl Meyer
Grumblings become cheers as Trudeau names Mona Nemer as chief scientist
National Observer

Gordon Hoekstra
BC wildfires - Tl'etinqox First Nation is staying
Vancouver Sun

Jane Gerster
Board stacked against assisted dying
Winnipeg Free Press

The finalists in the TEXT FEATURE category are:

Lindsay Jones
What happened to Lionel Desmond? An Afghanistan veteran whose war wouldn't end
Freelancer / The Globe and Mail

Alison Motluk
Anatomy of a Surrogacy
Hazlitt Magazine

Michael Friscolanti
The Russian spies who raised us
Maclean's

Vito Pilieci
How solar-energy dreams became a nightmare for the small Ontario town of Blind River
Ottawa Citizen

Betty Ann Adam
How I lost my mother, found my family, recovered my identity
The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Sask.

The finalists in the JHR / CAJ AWARD FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTING are:

Cullen Crozier
Against their will
APTN Investigates

Trina Roache
In the Shadow of the Dam
APTN Investigates

Joseph Loiero, Habiba Nosheen, Kimberly Ivany, Aileen McBride, Valerie Ouellet
Death Behind Bars
CBC News – The Fifth Estate

Adrienne Arsenault, Sylvia Thomson, Jean-François Bisson, Brenda Witmer, Andre Mayer
The short life and complicated death of Kristita Padual
CBC News – The National

Marc Ellison, Didier Kassai
House without windows
Freelancers / Huffington Post Canada

The finalists in the CWA CANADA / CAJ AWARD FOR LABOUR REPORTING are:

Kathleen Martens
Article 23
APTN Investigates

Mick Sweetman
The Second Crisis
Freelance / Briarpatch Magazine

Jacques Marcoux, Kristin Annable, Vera-Lynn Kubinec, Joanne Levasseur, Katie Nicholson
The Price of Death
CBC News

Tavia Grant
Investigation: It can now be called the deadliest industry in Canada
The Globe and Mail

Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Brendan Kennedy, Randy Risling, Frances Kelly, Kevin Donovan, Natasha Grzincic, Cameron Tulk, David Schnitman, Erin Nespoli, Andy Bailey, Tania Pereira, Brian Liu
Undercover in Temp Nation
Toronto Star

The finalists in the APTN / CAJ RECONCILIATION AWARD are:

Piya Chattopadhyay, Brian Coulton, Debbie Pacheco, Lisa Bryn Rundle, Sam Colbert
Portfolio
CBC Radio – Out in the Open

Kristin Nelson, Josh Bloch, Kathleen Goldhar
I want to understand - Ottawa police sergeant openly apologizes for racist comments
CBC Radio – The Current

Amitha Kalaichandran, Chelsea Jane Edwards
A youth driven movement remakes Attawapiskat
Maclean's

Nancy Macdonald
Portfolio
Maclean's

Jon Thompson
Portfolio
TVO Northwestern Ontario Hub

The finalists in the STUDENT AWARD OF EXCELLENCE are:

Shrinkhala Dawadi, Julia Dick
'It doesn't matter because it didn't happen on campus'
McGill Tribune / McGill University, Montreal, Que.

Ashley King, Karina Yaceyko
Fort McMurray Embers
Mount Royal University / Calgary Journal

Jolene Rudisuela, Amy Simpson, Lexi Wright
Closing Midfield
Mount Royal University / Calgary Journal

Seher Asaf, Francesca Bianco, Yusheng Cai, Taranjit Dhillon, Sophie Gray, Haley Lewis, Emma Loy, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Alex Migdal, Sharon Nadeem, Andrew Seal, Anya Zoledziowski, Rohit Joseph, Jaione Belza Guede, Duncan McCue, Kathryn Gretsinger, Chantelle Bellrichard
Tém:éxw: Stories of Land
University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Vancouver, B.C.

Faisal Ali, Eleanor Davidson, Jessica Durling, Lexi Harrington, Madi Haslam, Caora McKenna, Alex Myrick, John Sandham, Matt Scrimshaw, Julianne Steeves, Menglu Xu
Overburdened
University of King's College, Halifax, N.S. / The Signal / The Coast

Consistent with information in the entry package instructions, judges had the discretion to name between one and five finalists in each award category. There were a total 284 entries for the 2017 awards program.

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SOURCE Canadian Association of Journalists

Nick Taylor-Vaisey, CAJ president - 647-968-2393 cell, [email protected]; Hugo Rodrigues, Awards committee chair - [email protected]