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NNA winner at ’09 gala in Montreal dies in Afghanistan blast
Michelle Lang, the proud winner of a National Newspaper Award at the NNA gala in Montreal in May, died in a roadside IED blast, along with four Canadian armed forces personnel, on Dec. 30, 2009. She was the first Canadian journalist to be killed in the Afghanistan war.
Lang, 34, was the 2008 winner for Beat [...]
2009 rule and category changes
The National Newspaper Awards Board of Governors met recently to go over changes to the rules and categories for the 2009 competition. The following changes have been made:
Entry Rules - Rule Number Four (definition of a story)
The current rule #4 states: A story may comprise a main story and one closely-related sidebar.
The new rule #4 [...]
2008 Cartooning and Photography Winners
View the 2008 National Newspaper Award winners in all photography and cartooning categories.
Winners and runners-up for 2008 NNAs
[lang_en]The Globe and Mail led all newspapers in Canada with six awards in the 60th National Newspaper Awards competition.
The Toronto Star was next with 4, followed by Montreal’s La Presse and The Hamilton Spectator with two each. The Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, The Canadian Press, London Free Press, Montreal Gazette, Lethbridge Herald, Simcoe Reformer, and [...]
1,385 entries in this year’s NNAs
[lang_en]Competition for a National Newspaper Award will be as tight as usual after nearly 1,385 entries were submitted in the 22 categories for the 2008 awards.
The number of entries was the fourth highest in the awards’ history, just 20 fewer than last year.
In general percentage terms, entrants have a 5% chance of being nominated and [...]
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