Sun editor, photographer win National Newspaper Awards
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The Brandon Sun took home a pair of National Newspaper Awards in Toronto last night.
Editor Matt Goerzen received the Claude Ryan Award for Editorial Writing and photojournalist Tim Smith came first in the feature photo category.
Goerzen won for his editorials on Brandon’s growth on LGBTQIA+ rights, the changes required after the collision near Carberry last June that led to the death of 17 seniors, and why deficit numbers can’t always be trusted. He beat out fellow finalists Chris Hannay of the Globe and Mail and Lauren Heuser of Canadian Affairs.
Brandon Sun editor Matt Goerzen won the National Newspaper Award for editorial writing. (File)
Smith, now a three-time NNA winner in the feature photo category, won for his colourful photo of women washing windows at the CanAm Hutterite Colony east of Minto, with the glass creating their mirror-images. Other finalists in the category were Darren Calabrese of Canadian Press and Leah Henne of Reuters.
The Sun was also a joint finalist with the Winnipeg Free Press in the breaking news category for their combined coverage of the deadly Carberry crash. The award, however, went to La Presse for their coverage of the day a bus driver killed two children and injured six more when his vehicle crashed into a daycare centre in Laval. The third finalist in the category was Canadian Press for their coverage of the McDougall Creek Wildfire in West Kelowna, the largest fire in the city’s history.
In total, there were 69 finalists in 23 categories, representing 26 news organizations.
Finalists and winners were selected by three-judge panels in each category from 892 entries submitted for work published for the first time in 2023. Entries were submitted by 64 news organizations.
This is the 75th year for the awards program, established by the Toronto Press Club in 1949 to encourage excellence and reward achievement in daily newspaper work in Canada.
Brandon Sun photojournalist Tim Smith won his third National Newspaper Award in the feature photo category. (Submitted)
The competition is open to newspapers, news agencies and online news sites approved for entry by the NNA Board of Governors.
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The National Newspaper Award for feature photo of the year went to the Sun’s Tim Smith for this picture of women at the CanAm Hutterite Colony east of Minto in August 2023. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)