The Webster awards are BC’s biggest and best known journalism awards, and on November 1, the Globe and Mail took home one of the most prestigious award of them all for its coverage of the shooting in Tumbler Ridge.
The coverage was done by a team of reporters: Nathan VanderKlippe, Mike Hager, Andrea Woo, Justine Hunter, Jana Pruden, Tu Thanh Ha and Patrick White.
They won the Best News Reporting of the Year (print/digital) award, beating out a story about the Cowichan ruling on Vancouver Island, which also ran in the Globe and Mail, and a Vancouver Sun/Province story on extortion in BC.
It was one of four awards the Globe and Mail took home that evening.
Other winners included CTV Vancouver for their coverage of Chase De Balinhard, an autistic teen who was shot in Surrey, and Crawford Killian, for his columns in the Tyee.
Mat Lo took this picture of four of the seven writers receiving the award for Best News Reporting of the Year (print/digital) at the Webster awards on November 1.
Trent is the publisher of Tumbler RidgeLines.
