The duty stands out this evening at the Grand Times Hôtel de Laval where the 2021 Judith-Jasmin awards ceremony is being held, which celebrates the best journalistic works of the year in Quebec, by winning two prizes.
This year, 155 journalists were in the running for a total of 297 applications and The duty had six nominations. Prizes were awarded in ten categories, in addition to a grand prize awarded to the report of the year, during a gala hosted by journalist Alain Gravel, former president of the Professional Federation of Journalists of Quebec (FPJQ) and four-time recipient of a Judith-Jasmin award.
Journalists Marie-Michèle Sioui and Jessica Nadeau won a prize in the Investigation category for revealing how Aboriginal people suffer injustice when they try to claim health care, no matter where they are in Quebec.
Their colleagues Améli Pineda and Magdaline Boutros won a prize in the Politics and Social Issues category for their series of reports detailing the ravages of domestic violence. The day before, they had received the highest honors of the Canadian Journalism Competition for this same series by winning the prestigious E. Cora Hind prize in specialized journalism.
The grand prize for the report of the year was awarded to Caroline de la Motte (director), Catherine Richer (host) and Ariane Léonard (researcher) of ICI Radio-Canada Première for their report “La symphonie silent d’Antonia Nantel “. The Crown Corporation won five awards in total.
Headed by the FPJQ, these awards are divided into several sections, according to current topics, and praise the work of journalists and photographers from all media. Press, News, Chatelaine and The sun were among the other winners.
The journalists of To have to Stéphanie Vallet and Zacharie Goudreault were among the nominees in the Business and Economy category for their survey of social housing in Montreal. By dissecting public data, analyzing the flaws in 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.
In the Opinion category, our journalist Isabelle Paré also stood 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 received the jury’s pardon for “The Native Massacre”, which tells the story of the abductions of First Nations children during the residential school era.
The photo also celebrated
The press photo of the year prize at the Antoine-Desilets awards, which reward the best press photos of the year, was awarded to La Presse photojournalist Edouard Plante-Fréchette for his photo “Délogé”. The daily was particularly honored, having won prizes in 6 of the 7 categories.
The photographers of To have to were not left out, however, with the nomination of Marie-France Coallier in the Social Challenges category. His photo titled “It’s not going well at all” uses a well-known symbol of the pandemic to illustrate a dark and worrying facet of the infection: that of the long-lasting COVID.