Michener Award
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The Michener Award is one of the highest distinctions in Canadian journalism. The award was founded in 1970 by Roland Michener who was Governor General of Canada at the time but is named after Michener's daughter Wendy, a Toronto journalist and art critic who died unexpectedly in 1969. Since 1970, the Michener Award is presented yearly by the Governor General at Rideau Hall to a Canadian news organization "whose entry is judged to have made a significant impact on public policy or on the lives of Canadians". [1] Although the award is not presented to individual journalists, five individuals of the nominated finalists are invited to the award ceremony so that their contributions can also be acknowledged.
Since 1987, the Michener Foundation also attributes annually the Michener-Deacon Fellowship which provides financial support to a journalist wishing to complete a project that serves the Canadian public interest. The fellowship is named in honor of Roland Michener and late journalist Paul Deacon.
[edit] Past winners
- 2006: The Prince George Citizen, for a series of articles on the safety of truck drivers in the logging industry
- 2005: The Globe and Mail, for a series of articles on breast cancer by Lisa Priest.
- 2004: The Globe and Mail, for the investigative work on the sponsorship scandal by Daniel Leblanc and Campbell Clark.
- 2003: La Presse, for two series of articles on poor hospital care in Montreal.
- 2002: The Toronto Star, for the Investigation into Race and Crime series of articles.
- 2001: The Record (Waterloo Region), for investigating the misuse of municipal funds involving MFP Financial Services Ltd. (see RIM Park funding controversy).
- 2000: The CBC television programe The Fifth Estate for a series of reports on mistakes and abuse of the police and the justice system.
- 1999: CBC National Radio News, Winnipeg for journalist Curt Petrovich's work to uncover a scandal involving the Progressive Conservative Party's funding of Independent Native Voice during the 1995 Manitoba provincial election.
- 1998: The Toronto Star, for a series of reports on problems of Ontario's health care system.
- 1997: The Halifax Daily News, for David Rodenhiser's articles documenting sexual abuse in Nova Scotia reform schools.
- 1996: The Toronto Star, for its reports on spousal abuse in Ontario and flaws in the province's child protection system.
- 1995: CBC Radio, Ottawa, for its investigation of the Somalia Affair, a military scandal surrounding Operation Deliverance.
- 1994: CKNW/98, New Westminster, British Columbia.
- 1993: Ottawa Citizen and The Globe and Mail.
- 1992: The Edmonton Journal.
- 1991: CBC Television, Toronto and Winnipeg.
- 1990: Elmira, Ontario Independent (the only community weekly to win the award).
- 1989: Le Devoir.
- 1988: The Globe and Mail
- 1987: CBC Television and Southam News (tied).
- 1986: The Globe and Mail.
- 1985: The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star (tied).
- 1984: Kingston Whig-Standard
- 1983: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
- 1982: Manitoulin Expositor
- 1981: Télé-Métropole (Montreal) and Kitchener-Waterloo Record (tied).
- 1980: Edmonton Journal.
- 1979: Kingston Whig-Standard
- 1978: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
- 1977: The Globe and Mail
- 1976: Vancouver Sun, for uncovering a series of illegal break-ins by the RCMP
- 1975: Montreal Gazette and London Free Press (tied)
- 1974: Montreal Gazette
- 1973: CTV television network
- 1972: The Globe and Mail and Halifax Scotian Journalist
- 1971: CBC Television
- 1970: The Financial Post and CBC-television, for The Charter Revolution, a collaborative investigation of the air charter business.
