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NEWS
2009 Michener Award
The deadline for submissions to the 2009 Michener Award passed
on Friday, February 19, 2010.
The finalists for the Michener
awards and the date of the annual Michener Award ceremony at
Rideau Hall will be announced when this information becomes
available.
2010 Michener-Deacon Fellowship
The candidate list for the 2010 Michener-Deacon Fellowship
is now complete and applications are no longer being accepted.
The deadline for submissions was February 19, 2010.
The CBC/Radio-Canada and The Canadian
Press win 2008 Michener Award
 Ottawa, June 10, 2009 – The Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada and The Canadian Press
(CP) have won the 2008 Michener Award for a joint project that
analyzed and reported on the use of Taser stun guns, David
Humphreys, President of the Michener Awards Foundation,
announced today. The Full Story.
 Ed Struzik,
a senior writer at The Edmonton Journal, is the recipient of the
2009 Michener-Deacon Fellowship. He will use the 4-month study
leave to address what he believes will be one of the greatest
public policy issues of our time - Arctic sovereignty. He has explored and written extensively on Arctic issues for the
past 25 years
More.
 Some 40 years ago former
Governor General Roland Michener conceived his plan to establish
an annual award to honour the best of meritorious public service journalism in memory of his
daughter Wendy. What was missing from that plan was a visible
representation of the award. To that end he summoned young
artist John Matthews to Rideau Hall and asked him to create a
fitting and lasting symbol of excellence in Canadian journalism.
This is the story of the Michener Award and its creator.
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Judging Panels for this year's Michener Award programs
2009 Award
Russell Mills (vice president and chief judge), former
publisher of the Ottawa Citizen and current chairperson of the
National Capital Commission;
Donna Logan, former managing editor, CBC national radio news and
founding director of the school of journalism, University of
British Columbia;
Kim Kierans, director of the school of journalism,
University of King’s College, Halifax and former news
editor, CBC national radio news;
Christopher Waddell, associate director, School of
Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa,
and former Parliamentary Bureau Chief, CBC Television news.
Claude Papineau, former vice-president, The Canadian Press.
2010 Fellowship
Lindsay Crysler (chair), former managing editor of The
Gazette, Montreal; former director journalism department,
Concordia University, Montreal;
Clinton Archibald, professor of public ethics, St. Paul
University, Ottawa;
Lynne Van Luven, associate professor of journalism & creative
non-fiction, University of Victoria;
Erin Steuter, chair of the
sociology department, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB;
Michael Goldbloom, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Bishop’s
University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, and former publisher of The
Gazette and the Toronto Star.
The Michener-Deacon Fellowship was introduced in 1987 to advance
education in the field of journalism and to foster promotion of
the public interest through values that benefit the community. It
is awarded annually to a deserving journalist and provides a four-month
study-leave to the enhance the journalist's competence.
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The Michener Awards
Foundation was established to recognize and promote excellence in
Canadian public service journalism. It's named after the Right Honourable
Roland Michener, P.C., C.C., who served as Governor General of Canada
from 1967-1974.
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