Toronto Star up for eight National Newspaper Awards
The Toronto Star has received eight nominations for this year’s National Newspaper Awards.
Coverage on the Greenbelt, labour exploitation, aging with dementia, the housing crisis and Toronto’s troubled history with raccoons received nominations.
“I’m incredibly proud of our nominees who used the full range of journalistic tools — dogged daily reporting, in-depth investigations, beautifully written features, artful photography, engaging digital design, podcasting and more — to provide unique coverage of some of the defining issues of our time,” editor-in-chief Anne Marie Owens said.
Here are the Star’s nominations.
Sustained news coverage
The Star is nominated with the Narwhal for its coverage of Doug Ford’s Greenbelt scandal, which triggered a reversal from the Ford government, the resignations of two cabinet ministers and a criminal investigation by the RCMP.
Joan Hollobon award for beat reporting
Alex Boyd is nominated for her reporting on misinformation. Boyd documented how X serves bad information on the Israel-Hamas war, why our kids are more at risk for misinformation, and how Danielle Smith’s wildfire comments sparked fears of dangerous distraction.
Business
Sara Mojtehedzadeh and Rachel Mendleson are nominated for
Work Forced, a series documenting Canada’s growing labour trafficking crisis.
Explanatory work
Amy Dempsey is nominated for her colourful history of how Toronto lost its 100-year war with raccoons.
Presentation/design
Susan Kao, McKenna Hart and Tania Pereira are also nominated for their presentation of Dempsey’s oral history.
Norman Webster award for international reporting
Katharine Lake Berz is nominated for her coverage of women and children in Russia’s war against Ukraine. She documented the misogyny facing a trans woman fighting for Ukraine, the systemic abuse of female prisoners of war and Russia’s strategy of sexual violence against women and children.
Photo story
Steve Russell is nominated for his work in a story with Star reporter Moira Welsh documenting a husband’s “lonely struggle” to care for his wife, who has dementia.
John Wesley Dafoe award for politics
Althia Raj is nominated for her podcast, “It’s Political,” which tackles issues including Canada’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how to fix Canada’s housing crisis and whether it is time for Justin Trudeau to go.
The winners, as well as the 2023 journalist of the year and special citation recipient, will be announced at a gala in Toronto on April 26.