The Globe and Mail has been nominated for 11 National Newspaper Awards.
Globe journalists dominated the business category, receiving three out of four nominations. Editorial cartoonist Brian Gable, who has won five of the coveted awards, is a finalist for the 11th time.
In addition, Globe journalists received nods in the categories of multimedia feature, short features, presentation, columns, sports, international reporting and breaking news.
The Toronto Star received 16 nominations. The Montreal Gazette earned seven nominations while The Canadian Press and La Presse in Montreal picked up six each. The National Post, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and the Winnipeg Free Press have three nominations each. The Hamilton Spectator has two.
Single nominations went to the Belleville Intelligencer, Brandon Sun, Calgary Herald, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Lethbridge Herald, Medicine Hat News, Moncton Times and Transcript, Nanaimo Daily News, Postmedia Network, Reuters, Sarnia Observer, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, Waterloo Region Record and Windsor Star.
The nominations – with 72 finalists in 22 categories – were announced on Monday. The winners will be announced on May 13 in Ottawa.
The Globe has won more NNAs than any other newspaper since the awards’ inception in 1949, with 125.
The nominees:
Multimedia Feature: The Canadian Press for an online feature on the victims and their families of those injured or killed in Afghanistan; The Globe and Mail for Project Jacmel, a study of local efforts in Haiti to rebuild after the earthquake; the Toronto Star for a look at people waiting for organ transplants.
News feature photography: Mark Blinch of Reuters for a photo of a protester at the G20 Toronto summit doing a handstand as a police car burns in the background; Lucas Oleniuk, Toronto Star, for a photo of looters walking past a dead teenage Haitian girl still clutching her stolen mirrors after she was shot by police; Lucas Oleniuk, Toronto Star, for a photo of opposition supporters leaping over burning tires during a protest of the outcome of the Haitian national elections.
Beat reporting: Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press, for stories from his defence beat from both Ottawa and Afghanistan; Charlie Fidelman, Montreal Gazette, for stories of secret practices revealed from her health beat; Sonja Puzic, Windsor Star, for stories from her health beat, notably at the troubled Hotel Dieu Hospital; Mary Agnes Welch, Winnipeg Free Press, for a variety of stories from her public policy beat.
Explanatory work: Peggy Curran, Montreal Gazette, for a study of the future facing high school dropouts; Richard Johnson, National Post, for the barbaric practice of stoning in Iran; Jennifer Yang, Toronto Star, for a story of the rescue efforts for the 31 Chilean miners.
Politics: Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press, for stories of the command-and-control tactics of the Harper government's implementation of its economic stimulus plan; Jennifer Ditchburn and Heather Scoffield of The Canadian Press, for the federal government's decision to eliminate the long-form census; Kevin Dougherty of the Montreal Gazette for coverage of the Canadian government's co-operation with the United States to provide secure air travel; Jeff Outhit of the Waterloo Region Record for coverage of municipal politics.
Short features: Paul Benedetti of the Hamilton Spectator for a story of how his daughter learned to play Debussy's Clair de Lune as a Christmas present in memory of a grandmother she never knew; Ingrid Peritz, The Globe and Mail, for a story of a heart-shaped book created and signed in Auschwitz by 19 young women as a birthday gift to a fellow prisoner; Oakland Ross, Toronto Star, for piece on an endangered tree that is responsible for the best-quality bows for string instruments.
