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 [...]
View the 2008 National Newspaper Award winners in all photography and cartooning categories.