26-04-2025
Postmedia Calgary receives three honours at National Newspaper Awards
Postmedia Calgary — the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun — received three honours at the National Newspaper Awards (NNA) on Friday night. The news organization was given a finalist award in three categories:
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Photojournalist Jim Wells was a finalist in the News Photo category for an unforgettable image of two neighbours trying to save a deer that fell through the ice of the Bow River in the Inglewood area last November.
A regular contributor to the paper's Opinion pages, Patrick LaMontagne was a finalist in the category of Editorial Cartooning for his captivating artwork and sharp commentary.
A months-long project called Squeezed: Navigating Calgary's high cost of living was also given a finalist award in the Project of the Year category.
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'It's remarkable to have three NNA finalist honours in one year,' said Postmedia Calgary editor Monica Zurowski. 'We are grateful for this recognition and even more grateful that thousands and thousands of readers allow us the privilege of bringing them local news and local content that matters.
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'The journalism honoured by these awards represents a small cross-section of the news, business, arts, sports, opinion, photography and video content that we create every day,' Zurowski said. 'We're committed to bringing compelling and meaningful content to our community in all these areas every day.'
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Including the three honours received by its Calgary newsroom, Postmedia received a total nine honours this year for work by journalists from The Financial Post, Vancouver Sun/The Province, Ottawa Citizen/Sun, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post. The honours included a first-place award for Brandon Harder of the Regina Leader-Post for his painstaking re-creation of what happened when police went undercover to wring out a confession from a cold-case murderer.
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Held in Montreal, this year's NNAs represented the 76th year of the awards program. There were 69 finalists in 23 categories, representing 26 news organizations, out of a total 864 entries submitted by 82 news organizations. The awards were established in 1949 to encourage excellence and reward achievement in daily newspaper work in Canada.
