National Newspaper Awards announced at gala Friday evening
Posted May 14, 2010 10:33 pm.
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TORONTO – The Globe and Mail claimed seven of the 22 awards at the 61st National Newspaper Awards gala held Friday night in Toronto, while the Toronto Star was not far behind with six.
The New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal in Saint John and the Ottawa Citizen each claimed two awards.
La Presse in Montreal, the Guelph Mercury, London Free Press, Reuters, and the Province in Vancouver had one each.
Bruno Schlumberger of the Ottawa Citizen took two NNAs in Feature Photography and News Feature Photography. This gives him six NNAs in total for photography, the most of any photographer in NNA history.
Brian Gable of the Globe and Mail won his fifth award for Editorial Cartooning, while the newspaper’s Stephanie Nolen claimed her fourth.
Michele Ouimet of La Presse in Montreal has won her second NNA, as has Marty Klinkenberg of the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and Steve Russell of the Toronto Star.
Winners receive cheques for $1,000 and a certificate of award. Runners-up receive citations of merit.
There were 1,301 entries in this year’s competition for works that appeared in 2009. This is the 21st year for the NNAs under a board of governors that includes editors, publishers and the public from across Canada, as well as representatives from the Toronto Press Club.
The National Newspaper Awards were founded by The Toronto Press Club in 1949.
