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The Globe and Mail wins 10 Digital Publishing Awards, the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Landsberg Award
The Globe and Mail has won 10 Digital Publishing Awards for work that included a series of stories on Canada's housing market, coverage of last summer's Olympics and an investigation into a deadly listeria outbreak.
The Globe's Jana G. Pruden also won the Canadian Journalism Foundation's Landsberg Award for the podcast In Her Defence: 50th Street, which examined the unsolved death of an Indigenous woman in Alberta – a project that also won a Digital Publishing Award.
The National Media Awards Foundation handed out the Digital Publishing Awards at an event in Toronto on Friday.
The gold awards included:
The Globe also won five silver medals. Those were:
The Canadian Journalism Foundation Awards were presented at a gala in Toronto on Thursday.
The Landsberg Award, which celebrates journalists who enhance awareness of women's equality issues, went to Ms. Pruden for the podcast In Her Defence: 50th Street, which was produced by Kasia Mychajlowycz.
The podcast series, which also had a companion feature, investigated the disappearance of Amber Tuccaro, who disappeared in 2010 and whose body was found two years later.
The case hasn't been solved and was plagued by problems with how police responded to and investigated Ms. Tuccaro's disappearance.
Journalist Michele Landsberg, for whom the award is named, said when the podcast was nominated that it was 'powerful, deeply researched and profoundly sensitive.'
