The duty stands out this year at the Awards for Excellence in Digital Publishing by appearing among the most often cited media with seven nominations. The newspaper is among others in the category of General Excellence in digital publishing, in the medium-sized media division, while the video-journalist Jasmine Legendre collects three nominations.
The Excellence in Digital Publishing Awards recognize the exceptional achievements of industry artisans and the excellence of the content disseminated by Canadian digital publications. The nominees were announced Thursday morning.
In the Best News Coverage category, the daily received a nomination for its coverage of the 2021 federal election. The collaborators on this project are journalists Guillaume Levasseur, Matt Joycey, Jasmine Legendre, Sandrine Vieira and Boris Proulx, while Cédric Gagnon and Olivia Gélinas complete the team, respectively in design and data visualization.
The video team in the spotlight
The newspaper also stands out with several videos made in recent months. Jasmine Legendre and Matt Joycey earn another nomination in the Best Online Video – Short Form category for the video “My Father Doesn’t Recognize Me Anymore,” where a caregiver shares the last moments spent with her father, who suffers from Alzheimer’s.
For the Best Online Video – Long Format, Jasmine Legendre and Guillaume Levasseur stand out again with “The mirages of cosmetic surgery”. In this video, Hélène Boudreau — better known as “the girl from UQAM” — recounts the traumatic experience she had during cosmetic surgery in Tunisia.
Thanks to their video “How police officers shoot people in crisis” published in November 2021, the team made up of Amélie Pineda, Stéphanie Vallet, Guillaume Levasseur, Matt Joycey and Cédric Gagnon are in the running for the Best video in line – mini-documentary.
“These are products on which we have devoted a lot of effort and a lot of time to give them a distinct signature and brand”, rejoices the director of the To have toBrian Myles, on video content.
The web stands out
Web content is not left out, however, with a nomination in the category Best reportage: science and technology, in which Paul Fontaine’s dossier, “The waste of the pandemic”, stood out. This one was made with Olivia Gélinas, Simon-Olivier Laperrière and Cédric Gagnon.
Instagram posts also provide a nomination for the To have to, this time in the Best Social Media Storytelling category. Desk manager Sarah Boumedda and journalist Sandrine Vieira have created an Advent calendar on the social network to review the year between December 1 and 24, 2021 in the form of daily publications.
“These are successes that reflect on the whole team, not just on the newsroom, but on all the departments that contribute to making To have to what it is,” says the newspaper’s editor, Brian Myles.
He also notes that these awards are “highly respected for media that are engaged in digital transformation, which is the case with To have to which, moreover, recently expanded its video-journalism team. “It’s inspiring, it shows us that we’re doing things right,” said Mr. Myles.
It should be noted that in the Innovation of the Year category, the report “Clean Water, Broken Promises”, which focuses on the issues of access to water for First Nations, is nominated. This project was spearheaded by Concordia University’s Institute of Investigative Journalism, and several media outlets across the country contributed, including The dutythanks to its journalists Anabelle Nicoud and Alexis Riopel.
The winners will be announced on May 31 on the Digital Publishing Awards Twitter account. In terms of the number of nominations, Radio-Canada and the Globe and Mail lead the way with 16 and 14 citations respectively.