Spectator leads Ontario newspaper award nominations
The Hamilton Spectator leads the pack again this year with 16 nominations for Ontario Newspaper Association (ONA) awards.
The awards celebrating excellence in daily newspapers across Ontario will be given out at a cocktail reception in Toronto on April 28.
Hamilton Spectator editor-inchief Paul Berton said: “Once again, The Spectator staff show they are a formidable team that produces the very best in journalism and delivering news that matters to our readers.”
Spec reporter Steve Buist has four nominations and columnist Susan Clairmont and photographer Gary Yokoyama each have three.
Reporters Nicole O’Reilly and Teviah Moro have two nominations each.
Buist is nominated for feature writing, general news feature and sports writing, and in a team effort with Moro in the enterprise reporting category.
Clairmont is nominated for feature writing, column/opinion writing, and in another team effort with Yokoyama in special projects.
Yokoyama is also nominated for sports photography, and along with reporter Mark McNeil for video production.
Buist, Clairmont and reporter Jon Wells are the three nominees for feature writing, making the category a sure winner for The Spec.
The Spectator writing team of Nicole O’Reilly, Natalie Paddon and Carmela Fragomeni is nominated in the spot news writing category.
Spectator GO reporter Emma Reilly has a nomination for arts and entertainment writing.
Photographer Barry Gray is nominated for feature photography.
Photographer Cathie Coward is nominated in sports photography.
The London Free Press has eight nominations, the Windsor Star has seven, and the Waterloo Region Record and St. Catharines Standard each have five.
The Belleville Intelligencer and Sudbury Star each have three, and the Peterborough Examiner and Woodstock Sentinel-Review each have two. The Barrie Examiner, which ceased publication in November, has two nominations.
The Niagara Falls Review, the Stratford Beacon Herald, the Simcoe Reformer, the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, the Kingston Whig-Standard, and the Chatham Daily News each have one nomination.