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Our Achievements

Award-winning news coverage

Our Achievements:
Driven by a quest for first-rate journalism

The Canadian Press is proud of the excellent work by our editorial team and the recognition they have received, including:

  • More than 45 National Newspaper Awards and Radio-Television Digital News Association of Canada Awards.
  • Awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists.
  • The Canadian Journalism Foundation's Excellence Award.
  • The Michener Award.
  • The Charles Lynch Award.
  • The Atlantic Journalism Awards.
  • Awards from the News Photographers Association of Canada
  • The Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame and the George Gross Award from Sports Media Canada.
NNA CP Website 2021

2021 NNA Winner - General News Photo

  • CP photographer Nathan Denette was the winner in the General News Photo category for his photo of a COVID-19 patient desperately gasping for air as he receives life-saving medical attention in a hospital intensive-care unit. The judges described the photo as perfectly illustrating the painful and claustrophobic experience for patients and frontline workers fighting a devastating disease.
  • In addition, Frank Gunn, Chris Young and Jason Franson all received National Newspaper Award nominations for their photography for The Canadian Press.

2020 SABEW Best in Business Awards

  • The Canadian Press has been recognized with two Silver prizes in the 2020 Best in Business awards from the Society for the Advancement of Business Editing and Writing.
  • For her diversity series, Tara Deschamps used her connections among gig economy workers to share stories of discrimination in the workplace. This is Tara’s third SABEW award.
  • Anita Balakrishnan’s feature story examining a resurgence in union and other labour activity during the COVID-19 pandemic was also awarded a silver medal.
A foodora delivery driver navigates the streets of Toronto in winter

2020 National Newspaper Awards

WINNER – Breaking News Photo category: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer investigates at a gasoline station in Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada on Sunday, April 19, 2020, as the dead body of Gabriel Wortman, 51, is seen. Wortman was gunned down by police after a thirteen-hour crime spree killing 22 people and injuring three, the deadliest rampage in Canadian history. Wortman, a successful denturist, impersonated a police officer by driving a replica RCMP police car and wearing a police uniform. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
WINNER – Feature Photo category: Carolyn Ellis, left, creator of the hug glove, hugs her mother Susan Watts, 74, in her backyard on Christmas Eve during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guelph, Ont., on Thursday, December 24, 2020. Watts is a retired nurse who lives in an apartment near by and gets to come over outside and hug her daughter's family. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Nominee – Breaking News Photo category: Jason reacts as city workers move to clear an encampment on Toronto's Bay Street where he lived, on Friday May 15, 2020. The city is clearing homeless camps in downtown Toronto as part there COVID strategy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Nominee – Feature Photo category: Early morning paddle boarder enjoys late days of summer on Trent Severn Waterway in Rosedale Ontario, September 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Thornhill
Nominee – Breaking News Photo category: Two men get into a brief scuffle after the man on the right asked the other multiple times to stop vandalizing a building, as thousands of people gather for a peaceful demonstration in support of Floyd and Regis Korchinski-Paquet and protest against racism, injustice and police brutality, in Vancouver, on Sunday, May 31, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Nominee – Sports Photo category: Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Petr Mrazek (34) hits the ice after Toronto Maple Leafs left wing Kyle Clifford (73)skates into him during second period NHL hockey action in Toronto, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. Mrazek left the game. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Nominee – Sports Photo category: Berkley Brown of Aurora Ontario falls after her second jump at the freestyle moguls world cup finals Saturday, January 25, 2020 at Mont-Tremblant Que. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
police stand off

2020 NNA Winner – Breaking News

  • The reporting team of Michael MacDonald, Michael Tutton, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Keith Doucette, Kevin Bissett, Adina Bresge and Jim Bronskill won in the Breaking News category for their minute-by-minute coverage of that mass shooting.
  • The team – led by MacDonald, Tutton and Vaughan on the ground -- was relentless in its bid to push for answers and pay proper tribute to the victims. And they were backed by so many staffers – from right across the company -- who jumped in to help us produce such a complete and hard-hitting package. I should add that the Atlantic crew has not stopped in their quest to find out how this senseless tragedy was allowed to happen.

RTDNA's Dave Rogers Award for Network Radio

A panel of judges has chosen Colin Perkel's five-minute documentary "One Bomb Remembered" as the winning entry for the RTDNA's Dave Rogers Award for Network Radio.

  • Colin reached out to Canadian diplomat Bushra Saeed-Khan 10 years after the I-E-D blast in Afghanistan that left her clinging to life.
  • His dramatic and compelling five-minute feature allows her to reflect on her long and gruelling journey to recovery and a hopeful future.
  • Colin expertly wove sound through his piece to illustrate Saeed-Khan's struggles and triumphs — the cooing sounds of a baby in the background tell us she was able to realize her dream of becoming a mother.

Incidentally, Colin's initial report 10 years ago on the deadly blast won the Silver Medal Award in the radio documentary category at the New York Festivals — a global competition.

Bushra Saeed-Khan holds her 11-month-old daughter
A young girl at the Brooklyn Chest Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

2018 CAJ Awards

  • The Canadian Press is nominated in the Daily Excellence category for our coverage of the Humboldt Broncos crash. This was CP at its very best, responding to a huge story, and a terrible tragedy, with speed, care, accuracy, sensitivity and thoroughness. Our staff rose to the occasion, providing comprehensive, accurate coverage from the moment we first got wind of the crash and for days and even weeks afterward.
  • Laura Kane and Aleksandra Sagan have won the top award in the Open Media category for their series Contagion: The Growing Epidemic of Drug Resistance. Through extensive research and interviews with experts as well as people suffering the effects of the epidemic, they painted a frightening picture of the impact it could have on humanity, including millions of tuberculosis deaths, and the role Canada has played in propagating the problem.

2018 SABEW Best in Business Awards

  • Armina Ligaya, Tara Deschamps and Lucas Timmons are silver winners in the Package category for The Corporate Climb. The series of stories and graphics explored the state of gender parity in Canada’s corporate landscape and the effects of #MeToo in Canada’s C suites. They revealed that the #MeToo movement had sparked a surge of sexual-harassment-related internal investigations at Canadian companies. They also painted a bleak picture of the upper ranks of Canada’s TSX 60 companies, none of which were headed by a woman and two-thirds of which failed to include a woman among top earners.
A woman walks through Toronto's financial district.

Jonathan Hayward, 2018 CAJ Photo Journalism Finalist

Jonathan Hayward is nominated in the Photojournalism category of the CAJs for a portfolio of his amazing pictures, including from Humboldt, the Olympics, flooding in B.C. and various sporting events. Johnny was earlier nominated in the NNAs for the guitar man picture, and for news photo of the year for the News Photographers Association of Canada for the aerial photo of the Humboldt Broncos crash.

2018, 2017 and 2016 National Newspaper Awards

Featured Photo Finalist: Fog shrouds the waterfront as the St. John River water levels rise faster than normal around Fredericton, pushing the river past the flood stage in the New Brunswick capital on Saturday, April 28, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Sports Photo Winner: Anthony Smith lays on the canvas after defeating Volkan Oezdemir in the light heavyweight main event bout during UFC Fight Night at the Avenir Centre in Moncton, N.B. on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. Smith won by submission. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
News Photo Finalist: Resident Lars Androsoff carries his friend's guitars as he walks through the floodwaters in Grand Forks, B.C., on Thursday, May 17, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Breaking News Winner, for team coverage of the truck-bus collision that killed 16 members of the Humboldt Broncos organization. (Photo Credit: A memorial for the 2018 crash where 16 people died and 13 injured when a truck collided with the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus, is shown at the crash site on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 in Tisdale, Saskatchewan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)
Finalist — Sports Photo Category: Elina Svitolina of Ukraine returns the ball against Simona Halep of Romania during women's semi-final Rogers Cup tennis action in Toronto on Saturday, August 12, 2017. Svitolina won the match advancing to the finals. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Finalist — News Photo Category: Kelsey Thorne holds her daughter Nevaeh Porter, 8, as they both cry while viewing the remains of their home where they lived with her parents that was destroyed by wildfire on the Ashcroft First Nation, near Ashcroft, B.C., late Sunday July 9, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Nominee — News Feature Photo Category: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets splashed with water as he waves a flag while taking part in the annual Pride Parade in Toronto on Sunday, July 3, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Nominee — Project of the Year Category: Kristy Kirkup and Sheryl Ubelacker: "Open secret: sexual abuse haunts children in Indigenous communities."
Winner — News Feature Photo Category: Police officers direct traffic under a cloud of smoke from a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta., on Friday, May 6, 2016. The ferocious wildfire that forced nearly 90,000 to flee Canada's oilsands region and reduced thousands of homes to rubble has been picked as the top news story of 2016 in an annual survey of newsrooms across Canada by The Canadian Press. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Nominee — Feature Photo Category: A surfer comes off a wave in Cow Bay, N.S., near Halifax, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016. A winter storm forced school closures, delayed flights and created difficult traffic conditions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Nominee — Sports Photo Category: Houston Dynamo's Ricardo Clark, left, gets his hand in the face of teammate, goalkeeper Joe Willis, right, as he tries to punch the ball away from Vancouver Whitecaps' Kekuta Manneh, back, during the first half of an MLS soccer game in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday March 26, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl

2017 CAJ Awards

  • A team consisting of Laura Kane, Geordon Omand, Joanna Smith, Sidhartha Banerjee, Paola Loriggio, Lucas Timmons and Kevin Ward got a nod in the Open Media category of the CAJs. The team spent weeks in addition to their regular duties putting together a series of stories on the impact the Supreme Court of Canada’s Jordan decision has had on the justice system.
  • The project broke new ground. The number of cases that have been impacted by the Jordan decision was quantified nationally for the first time, with CP’s statistics cited by the Office of the Federal Ombudsman for Victims of Crime in a report last November.
The Supreme Court of Canada building is pictured, in Ottawa, on October 15, 2014.
Signage at the corporate headquarters of Equifax Inc. in Atlanta

2017 SABEW Best in Business Awards

  • The team of Armina Ligaya, Aleksandra Sagan, David Hodges and Ross Marowits is nominated in the Breaking News category of the SABEW awards for their dogged work on the Equifax data breach, including finding out how many Canadians were affected by the hack.
  • Our business team led the country on that issue and their stories were picked up everywhere.

2017 RTDNA Canada National Awards

  • Short Feature category nominations: Chris Purdy’s report, “La Loche Remembered,” and Colin Perkel’s piece on Omar Khadr’s medic .
  • Best Use of Sound category nomination: Bill Graveland’s story on alternate treatments for Parkinson’s .
Two police officers stand out front of La Loche Community School

Darryl Dyck, 2017 CAJ Photo Journalism Finalist

Darryl Dyck is a finalist in the CAJ Photo Journalism category for his body of work from last summer’s wildfires in the Interior of British Columbia. The long hours Darryl put into the assignment produced a portfolio of memorable photographs that got widespread play online and in newspapers across the country.

2017 Atlantic Journalism Awards

SILVER FINALIST: Brett Bundale got a nod in the Enterprise Reporting category for her work on the poor access to abortion services in Nova Scotia.
SILVER FINALIST: Andrew Vaughan’s joyous picture of a sailor reacting after his girlfriend accepted his marriage proposal was picked in the Photojournalism Portrait/Feature category.
SILVER FINALIST: Brett Bundale got a nod in the Feature category for her brilliant story on the anniversary of the Halifax Explosion.
SILVER FINALIST: Michael MacDonald and intern Kieran Leavitt were recognized in the Breaking/Spot News category for their coverage of a house fire that left four people dead.
GOLD WINNER: Diane Doiron got a nod in the Photojournalism News category for a moody photo of firefighters putting out a peat-bog fire in New Brunswick

2016 News Photographers Association of Canada (NPAC) Awards

Winner — General News Category: A fire burns to melt the ground so a grave can be dug at the cemetery in La Loche, Sask. Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. The graves are being prepared for some of the victims of Friday’s shooting. A 17-year-old boy allegedly shot two people at the school last Friday after shooting two brothers to death earlier at a home nearby. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Winner — Feature Category: Seven-year-old Luke Carter waves to window washers dressed as Spiderman, Ironman and Batman at Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ont., on Aug. 2, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
Honourable Mention — Picture Story — News Category: Police officers direct traffic under a cloud of smoke from a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta., on Friday, May 6, 2016. The ferocious wildfire that forced nearly 90,000 to flee Canada's oilsands region and reduced thousands of homes to rubble has been picked as the top news story of 2016 in an annual survey of newsrooms across Canada by The Canadian Press. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Honourable Mention — Social Issues Category: A woman who didn't want to be identified by name exhales after taking a hit from a bong during the annual 4/20 cannabis culture celebration at Sunset Beach in Vancouver on Wednesday April 20, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
3rd Place — Sports Feature: Garreth McLellan, of South Africa, reacts after his fight against Alessio Di Chirico, of Italy, during a middleweight bout during a UFC Fight Night event in Vancouver on Saturday, August 27, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Feature Category — 3rd Place: A bald eagle eats a Chinook salmon along the Harrison River in Harrison Mills, B.C. Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
3rd Place — Pictorial Category: A woman walks through a tidal pool along the shore of Semiahmoo Bay during low tide in White Rock, B.C., on Friday, March 11, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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