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Free Press nominated for three awards
THE Winnipeg Free Press has been honoured with three National Newspaper Awards nominations.
Mary Agnes Welch, Lindor Reynolds, Phil Hossack and Melissa Tait were among 72 finalists in 22 categories announced by the NNA office in Toronto on Wednesday.
"We are delighted that the National Newspaper Awards has recognized the outstanding journalism that's our goal each and every day," Free Press editor Paul Samyn said. "The work that Lindor, Mary Agnes, Phil and Melissa did for our readers is among the best of the best in this country."
Reynolds is nominated under the Short Features category for her story on a Scanterbury resident who built a large red chair in honour of the community's ditch-wavers.
Welch, who is currently on leave on a William Southam Journalism Fellowship, is nominated for the third time under the category of Beat Reporting for her public-policy coverage. Her stories looked at banks abandoning the inner city, pesticide use, bad roads, the Ebb and Flow First Nation and the tale of Manitoba's sturgeon.
Hossack, a Free Press photographer, and Tait, a multimedia editor, are nominated under the Multimedia Feature category for their portrait of an international humanitarian mission. Hossack travelled to Nicaragua with a team of doctors, nurses and physiotherapists from Concordia Hospital to chronicle them in photographs performing 49 knee replacements, while Tait edited the video of the trip.
Meanwhile, in the category Feature Photography, Tim Smith of the Brandon Sun, the Free Press' sister paper, was nominated for a photo of a child coping with a rare illness that makes it hard for her to clear her throat on her own.
The NNAs, which were founded by the Toronto Press Club in 1949, will be handed out at a ceremony inside Ottawa's Canadian War Museum on May 3.
There were 1,430 entries this year.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 14, 2013 A2
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