Left to Right: Luisa D’Amato, reporter Kitchener-Waterloo Record; Anne Mullens, Vancouver Sun health and science reporter; Nick Hills, general manager of Southam News; Governor General Jeanne Sauvé; former Governor General Roland Michener; Howard Bernstein, executive producer, CBC-TV; George Clark, news director, CFPL-TV; Jim MacNeill, publisher, Eastern Graphic; Gordon Fisher, Vancouver Sun managing editor.
The Michener Award for meritorious public journalism, sponsored by the Michener Awards Foundation, was launched in 1970 under the auspices of the late Roland Michener, then governor general. The award is for outstanding and disinterested public service in journalism. It is presented annually to a news organization – newspapers, broadcasting stations and networks, news agencies and periodicals are eligible – rather than an individual.