The Press won the John Honderich Award for Project of the Year at the 2021 Canadian Newspaper Awards for its “comprehensive reporting on the unprecedented number of firearms incidents in Quebec.”
Posted yesterday 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. Everyone takes care of the sector they cover”, notes François Cardinal, deputy publisher and vice-president of Information of The Press. “But once in a while, a big project or a big story brings together several reporters in a common effort that gives rise to 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 citations in as many categories at the Canadian Newspaper Competition this year, for texts by Isabelle Hachey, Hugo Dumas, Stéphanie Grammond, Marie-Claude Malboeuf, Judith Lachapelle and Alexandre Pratt, in addition to those from the year, as well as photos of 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
- Maserati shooters
- 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
- 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 the mothers who pay”
- “She didn’t even have time to succeed”
The full list of winners and runners-up can be viewed on the contest website.