2009 Cartooning and Photography Winners

View the 2009 National Newspaper Award winners in all photography and cartooning categories.

Winners and runners-up for 2009 NNAs

The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star combined to win 13 of the 22 categories at the 61st National Newspaper Awards ceremony held in Toronto on May 14.
The Globe took seven top honours and the Star was right behind with six.
Next was the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal in Saint John and the Ottawa Citizen with two [...]

Information about NNA gala May 14 in Toronto

Christie Blatchford, The Globe and Mail, and Yves Boisvert, La Presse, Montreal, to emcee 61st NNA awards ceremony on May 14

The country’s top prizes for journalism will be handed out during the 61st National Newspaper Awards ceremony in Toronto on Friday, May 14
The event is expected to attract a large contingent of publishers, editors, and [...]

Finalists announced for 2009 NNAs

The Globe and Mail leads all newspapers in Canada with 15 finalists in the 61st National Newspaper Awards competition, closely followed by the Toronto Star with 14 finalists.
The Edmonton Journal and Montreal’s La Presse have six nominations each.
The Hamilton Spectator had four and The Canadian Press earned three nominations.
The Ottawa Citizen, Kingston Whig-Standard, New Brunswick [...]

NNAs attract 1,300 entries

The National Newspaper Awards attracted nearly 1,300 entries from works created in 2009.
Leading the way was Long Features with 130 entries, followed by Columns with 117.
There were 320 entries in the four photography categories: Feature Photo, 101; News Feature Photo, 97; Sports Photo 69; and Spot News Photo, 53.
Other categories:

Breaking News, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Winners and runners-up for the 2007 National Newspaper Awards

The Globe and Mail walked off with six of the 21 awards at the 59th National Newspaper Awards gala on May 9 in Toronto. 
La Presse of Montreal was next with five awards. 
The Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Star earned two each.  The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press, National Post, Saint John Telegraph-Journal, Prince George [...]