National Newspaper Awards


The National Newspaper Awards are prizes awarded annually for the best work in Canadian newspapers.

Synopsis

The awards were first given in 1949 by the Toronto Press Club, which ran the awards until 1989. They are now given by an independent board of governors and administered from the offices of the Canadian Newspaper Association in Toronto.
There are currently 21 award categories: Breaking News; Investigations; Presentation; Sports; Business; Politics; Long Feature Writing; Short Feature Writing; Columns; Editorial Writing; Arts and Entertainment; Editorial Cartooning; Project of the Year; Photo Essay/Portfolio ; Spot News Photography; Sports Photography; Feature Photography; International Reporting; Explanatory Journalism; and Local Reporting.
A Journalist of the Year is chosen from the winners by a panel of working journalists. The first Journalist of the Year was editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon in 2015. In 2016, Joanna Slater was the winner. In 2017, Mark MacKinnon was awarded the prize.
As of 2020, the named awards were: