The Press wins the John Honderich Project of the Year Award at the 2021 Canadian Newspaper Competition (CCJ) for its “comprehensive reporting on the unprecedented number of firearms incidents in Quebec.”
Posted at 9:50 p.m.
The winning project is the work of a team of seven journalists, namely Daniel Renaud, Mayssa Ferah, Caroline Touzin, Vincent Larouche, Louis-Samuel Perron, Tristan Péloquin and Philippe Teisceira-Lessard.
“Journalists’ work is usually quite solitary. Each takes care of the sector it covers. “, notes François Cardinal, assistant editor and vice-president Information at The Press. “But once in a while, a big project or a big story brings together several reporters in a common effort that results in a fruitful emulation. »
“The ‘Project of the Year’, a hot topic signed by seven journalists, is precisely that,” he adds. “Congratulations to the winners! »
The Press received nine nominations in as many categories at the CCJ this year, including texts by Isabelle Hachey, Hugo Dumas, Stéphanie Grammond, Marie-Claude Malbœuf, Judith Lachapelle, and Alexandre Pratt, as well as photos by Martin Tremblay and Bernard Brault.
No less than 17 texts form the winning project of The Press on the explosion of gun violence, particularly among young people, that rocked Montreal last year:
- Young people with no history end up with a gun in their hands
- Buying a weapon: child’s play
- The New Wild West
- Armed and dangerous teenagers
- The Maserati shooter
- Illegal weapons and PCU fraud: a suspicious cocktail
- Little Burgundy: the return of the gangsters
- Killed for a yes or a no
- Who was Young Wolf?
- What if the solution was through rehabilitated ex-gangsters?
- He shoots four strangers after a “simple remark” on his bag
- Alleged Sherbrooke arms dealer William Rainville had bought a dilapidated house on the border
- The color of crime
- A hundred shootings in Montreal in 2021
- Street gangs in Montreal Shootings to “score points”
- It is mothers who pay
- “She didn’t even have time to succeed”
The complete list of winners and finalists can be viewed on the CCJ website.