Postmedia journalists nominated for 9 National Newspaper Awards

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Postmedia journalists have netted nine nominations at the prestigious National Newspaper Awards.

The Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun jointly received three nominations, with single nods going to the Financial Post, Vancouver Sun/The Province, Ottawa Citizen/Sun, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Saskatoon Star Phoenix and Regina Leader-Post.

“Postmedia’s editorial mission to inspire and harness Canadian ambition is represented and matched by the work all our teams do, every day. That’s demonstrated so clearly in the work that’s been included in these nominations,” Duncan Clark, Postmedia’s chief content officer, said in a statement. “All our nominated journalists and newsrooms should take great pride in this recognition. I’m particularly gratified to see our journalism nominated in such a wide array of categories.”

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Financial Post’s Naimul Karim has been nominated in the business reporting category for his coverage of Canada’s changing immigration laws and the way they are affecting thousands of foreign workers.

Patrick LaMontagne, a cartoonist for the Calgary Herald/Sun, has been nominated in editorial cartooning.

The Herald/Sun received other nominations, too. Jim Wells, a veteran photographer, was nominated in the news photo category for a stunning photo of people trying to rescue a deer that had fallen through the ice of the Bow River.

The Herald/Sun was also nominated for the John Honderich Award for Project of the Year for its “Squeezed” series, which looked at the rising cost of living and how it’s affecting Calgarians.

Kim Bolan, a veteran crime reporter at the Vancouver Sun/The Province, was nominated for the Norman Webster Award for International Reporting. Bolan had reported from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Southeast Asia, documenting the international reach of B.C.’s criminal organizations.

Aaron Beswick, with the Halifax Chronicle Herald, was nominated for the Cora Hind Award for Local Reporting for his work on lawlessness within Nova Scotia’s lobster and eel fisheries. Beswick uncovered poaching, arson and the presence of organized crime rings in the fishing industry.

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Julia Peterson, at the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, was nominated for the same award, for extensive coverage into the two inquests into the James Smith Cree Nation mass killings.

In the William Southam Award for Long Feature category, Brandon Harder from the Regina Leader-Post was nominated for his feature on a police undercover operation that got a confession out of a cold-case murderer.

And, in the sports reporting category, Ken Warren and Tony Caldwell at the Ottawa Citizen/Sun were nominated for their feature about an Ottawa man who cuts a hole through the ice so he can hop in for a daily swim.

Freelance cartoonist Michael de Adder received a nomination that included work in the Halifax Chronicle Herald, which became a Postmedia property last fall.

The NNAs received 864 entries from 82 publications across Canada for the 2024 iteration of its awards. Winners will be announced at a gala on April 25.

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