Postmedia Calgary gets two nods for international news association awards

The International News Media Association named Postmedia Calgary on Monday as a finalist in two categories of its annual awards competition.

The first award nomination came in the category of best community service campaign — joint recognition for Postmedia Calgary (Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun) and Postmedia Edmonton (Edmonton Journal and Edmonton Sun) for a project called Gifts of Life.

Postmedia newsrooms in both cities joined forces to create this month-long series of content focused on organ donations and transplants.

With support from Postmedia Editorial Services, 22 journalists worked on the project to provide compelling packages of information — stories, graphics, photos and columns — which were published online and in our four newspapers on each of the five Saturdays in November 2019.

On our digital sites and social media platforms, we worked to profile a person each day of that same month who had either received a transplant, was waiting for one, had donated an organ or tissue, or had agreed to donate an organ from a deceased relative.

The other nomination for Postmedia Calgary came in the best use of video category, for a video that documented the story of injured Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki. The 13-minute video was created by Leah Hennel and Kerianne Sproule and accompanied a three-part story from Sammy Hudes.

This is the fourth year in a row in which Postmedia Calgary has been named a finalist in the best use of video category. Postmedia Calgary has been nominated for or won a total of 12 INMA awards since 2010.

This year, the INMA awards attracted 824 entries from 242 news organizations in 44 countries around the world. Winners will be announced on April 28.