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Ottawa, October 13, 2011. The Michener Awards Foundation is expanding its support for journalism that serves the public interest. Effective in 2012 the foundation will award two fellowships, one for an investigative journalism project and another for journalism education. The details.

Deadlines for the Michener Award and Fellowships:

2011 Michener Award: February 24, 2012. The judging committee will begin accepting entries on January 1, 2012. Award Entry Rules.

2012 Michener Deacon Fellowships: February 24, 2012. Entry Rules.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s investigative program the fifth estate has won the 2010 Michener Award for its reporting on the incarceration and death of Ashley Smith, a seriously troubled teenager who spent the last four years of her life behind bars for a minor offence.

Citations of Merit were awarded to: the Calgary Herald; The Eastern Door; The Hamilton Spectator; la Société Radio-Canada; and the Vancouver Sun.

Toronto freelance writer Jane Armstrong was the recipient of the 2011 Michener-Deacon Fellowship. She will examine the impact of Canada’s aid programs in Afghanistan.

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Judges for the 2010 Michener Award:

Kim Kierans (chair), Professor School of Journalism and Vice President University of King's College in Halifax and former CBC news reporter and editor;

Kevin Crowley, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University and former business editor with the Waterloo Region Record;

Allan Mayer, former editor-in-chief of the Edmonton Journal and former reporter with the Edmonton Sun and London Free Press;

Claude Papineau, former Vice President for French Services of The Canadian Press and former Parliamentary Correspondent;

Christopher Waddell, Director of the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University and former National Editor of The Globe and Mail and Parliamentary Bureau Chief for CBC Television News.

Judges for the 2011 Michener-Deacon Fellowship:

Lindsay Crysler (chair), former managing editor of The Gazette, Montreal, former director, journalism department, Concordia University, Montreal;

Clinton Archibald, associate professor, professor of public ethics, St. Paul University, Ottawa;

Michael Goldbloom, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Bishops University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, and former publisher of The Gazette and the Toronto Star;

Lynne Van Luven, associate professor of journalism and creative non-fiction, University of Victoria;

Erin Steuter, chair of the sociology department, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB.

Julie Ireton is the winner of the 2010 Michener-Deacon Fellowship. She is a business and high-technology reporter in the CBC Parliamentary Bureau. Judges agreed that her proposal to pursue an investigation entitled, The Federal Public Service: Middle-men, Double-Dipping and Cronyism, embodies the in-depth news focus the Fellowship is designed to support. More..

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