The craftsmen of The Press won nine honors at the Judith-Jasmin and Antoine-Desilets awards ceremony.
Posted at 10:00 p.m.
Journalists and photographers from The Press were awarded nine prizes at the prestigious Judith-Jasmin and Antoine-Desilets competitions, organized by the Professional Federation of Quebec Journalists. The winners were announced on Saturday at a gala, which, for the first time in two years, was held face-to-face at the Grand Times Hotel in Laval.
Columnist Francis Vailles, head of the investigative team Katia Gagnon and reporter Hugo Joncas won the Business and Economy category for their series on the explosion of online betting during the pandemic. The jury highlighted the “quality of research and writing” of the journalists’ work on “an issue rarely covered. »
Journalist Marc Thibodeau also stood out in the Sport category for “the quality of the field work and the rigor of the research” in his report on the death of Mexican boxer Jeanette Zacarias Zapata.
“What makes me happy about the awards received is that they show the effort we have put into The Press both on the investigation, the field and photojournalism. The Press has been relying on value-added content for years, and it is this choice that has been rewarded”, rejoiced our assistant editor, François Cardinal.
In all, seven reports from The Press were in the running in six categories of the Judith-Jasmin awards. Among their authors, journalists Ariane Lacoursière, Émilie Côté, Fanny Lévesque, Caroline Touzin and the head of economic investigations, Maxime Bergeron. This year, 155 journalists had tried their luck in the competition by submitting a total of 297 applications.
The photographers of The Press grab (almost) everything
Triumphal evening for the photographers of The Press : they were crowned in seven of the eight categories of the Antoine-Desilets prize. The Press Photo of the Year – the competition’s greatest recognition – was awarded to Edouard Plante-Fréchette for his poignant photo “Délogé”, which also won the prize in the Everyday Life category.
Photographer Martin Tremblay won two prizes, in the News and Portraits categories. Olivier Jean’s photos taken at Charles-Le Moyne hospital, in the heart of “Covidtown”, won the Photoreportage category.
Finally, photographer Patrick Sanfaçon was awarded the prize in the Social Issues category, and Bernard Brault won the prize for Sports Photography of the Year – his 12and Antoine-Desilets career prize.
Photographers Marco Campanozzi, Robert Skinner and Martin Chamberland were also in the running. This year, 32 photographers competed for a total of 218 entries.
Other prices
Other prizes were awarded during the ceremony, including the Prize for Leisure Journalism, awarded by the Conseil québécois du loisirs. Journalist Emilie Côté of The Press convinced the jury with his report “Parks, these great saviors”, a tribute to parks as an egalitarian and essential place for Montrealers during the pandemic.
A presentation by Chantal Guy, winner of the Jules-Fournier 2022 prize, awarded each year by the Superior Council of the French language to a journalist from the written press for the quality of his writings, was also made on the occasion of the gala.
let’s remember that The Press won Project of the Year at the Canadian Newspaper Awards for its series on gun violence in Montreal.
Five awards for Radio-Canada
It was Caroline de la Motte, Catherine Richer and Ariane Léonard of ICI Radio-Canada Première who walked away with the top honors of the evening: their report “Antonia Nantel’s Silent Symphony”, winner of the Arts and Culture category. , was also awarded Report of the Year.
Radio-Canada journalists won a total of five prizes, including those in the Science and Environment, and Local and Regional categories. Its journalists Sylvie Fournier and Judith Plamondon shared the prize in the Investigation category with the duo from To have to composed of Marie-Michèle Sioui and Jessica Nadeau.
Another tandem of To have to, Améli Pineda and Magdaline Boutros – named Journalists of the Year at the Canadian Journalism Contest – were crowned in the Politics and Social Issues category. The prize in the Opinion category was awarded to Mylène Moisan from Sun, and that of the Grand reportage category to Fabrice De Pierrebourg. Finally, Catherine Dubé de Châtelaine came out on top in the Miscellaneous facts and criminal cases category.