The duty wins six nominations for the Judith-Jasmin 2021 awards, this prestigious competition that celebrates the best journalistic works of the year in Quebec. The dedication of the photographers of the Montreal daily is also underlined by a place among the finalists of the Antoine-Désilets prizes.
The prizes, headed by the Professional Federation of Journalists of Quebec (FPJQ), are divided into several sections, according to current topics, and praise the work of journalists and photographers from all media.
Journalists Stéphanie Vallet and Zacharie Goudreault won honors in the “Business and Economy” category for their investigation into social housing in Montreal. By dissecting public data, analyzing the flaws of the policies in place and exposing the phenomenon of the “social housing desert”, they paint a detailed portrait of the housing crisis in the metropolis.
Marie-Michèle Sioui and Jessica Nadeau together receive a nomination in the “Investigation” category for having revealed how Aboriginal people suffer injustices when they try to claim health care, no matter where they are in Quebec.
The FPJQ also salutes twice the opinion pieces of the artisans of the To have to. Isabelle Paré thus stands out for her text “All against the virus, alone against global warming”, which draws a parallel between two major crises that our societies are going through. Francine Pelletier also receives the jury’s pardon for “The Native Massacre”, which tells the story of the abductions of First Nations children during the residential school era.
Isabelle Paré won a second nomination in the “Politics and Social Issues” category for her series in eight texts about the first 10,000 Quebecers lost to COVID-19. Each of his portraits offers a different look at the grief that has invaded too many lives over the past two years. Moreover, the five-part survey by Magdaline Boutros and Améli Pineda on the extent of domestic violence in Quebec also deserves a nomination in this category.
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Finally, the photographers of To have to are not to be outdone with the nomination of Marie-France Coallier in the “social issues” category of the Antoine-Désilets prizes which rewards the best press photos of the year. His photo titled “It’s not going well at all” takes up a well-known symbol of the pandemic in order to illustrate a dark and worrying facet of the infection: that of the “long-lasting COVID”.
Special mention to Valérian Mazataud, also a photographer for the To have towho received a nomination for his collaboration with the newspaper The world for his photographic reports on the horror of residential schools.
No less than 155 journalists and 297 candidates were on the list to appear on this list of nominations. This year’s Judith-Jasmin and Antoine-Desilets Awards Gala will be held on May 7.