CBC/Radio-Canada was recognized at the ACJ Awards presented by the Canadian Association of Journalists on Saturday.
The team of journalists Jeff Yates, Nicholas De Rosa, Brigitte Noël, Roberto Rocha and Sophie Leclerc won a prize in the Written News category for their investigation titled A Montreal Empire of Online Scams.
Their report raises the veil on the empire of a wealthy Montrealer, Philip Keezer, who earns millions of dollars annually thanks to a deceptive offer of contests, movies, virtual concerts and sporting events.
Another Radio-Canada group is representative in the same category. Those of journalists Justine de L’Eglise, Mélanie Meloche-Holubowski, Bernard Leduc, Martin Labbé and Mykaël Adam to whom we owe the article “This is our only weapon”: they point their cameras at police abuse.
For their part, our colleagues from CBC Podcasts won the Online Media category for their undercover reporting on a group of white supremacists in Manitoba.
Other Canadian radio journalists were among the finalists. Valérie Ouellet and Naël Shiab are running alongside Sylvène Gilchrist in the Data Journalism category for their article. Here’s why elected officials don’t look like Canadians.
For her part, journalist Matisse Harvey was a finalist in the Reconciliation Prize category. for his article Grise Fiord-Le voyage au bout de soi published for Radio-Canada Grand-Nord.
Source: Radio-Canada
