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Michener Awards Foundation Announces 2025 Fellowship Recipients for Excellence in Journalism and Education

May 1, 2025 - Ottawa – The Michener Awards Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Michener-L. Richard O’Hagan Fellowship for Journalism Education and the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Journalism. These prestigious fellowships support Canadian journalists in pursuing projects that advance the public interest through investigative and educational journalism. The Michener fellowship recipients will be honoured […]

Announcing new “Covering Canada: Election 2025” Fund

March 31, 2025 - Immediate Grants to Support Federal Election Coverage March 31, 2025 Ottawa – The Public Policy Forum (PPF), the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) and the Michener Awards Foundation (MAF) are launching a timely, non-partisan granting initiative to support journalists at small- and medium-sized media outlets in covering the 2025 federal election. The Covering Canada: Election 2025 […]

New Report Calls for Urgent Action to Save Local News in Canada

OTTAWA, February 12, 2025 - A report released today by the Public Policy Forum (PPF) in partnership with the Rideau Hall Foundation (RHF) and the Michener Awards Foundation (MAF) highlights the critical state of local news in Canada and proposes urgent recommendations to revitalize a key industry that plays an outsized role in Canadian democracy. The report, titled The Lost […]

New Journalism Fellowship Invests in Local Journalism and Encourages Small Newsrooms to Think Big

Charlottetown, PEI, October 17, 2024 - Across Canada in the last 15 years, more than 500 local newsrooms have closed in nearly 350 communities. Communities are on the frontlines and at this critical time, local journalism merits special attention. Today, the Michener Award and Rideau Hall Foundations (MAF and RHF) responded to this need with a new Fellowship designed to amplify […]

Michener Award for Public Service Journalism goes to The Narwhal and The Toronto Star for their reporting of the Ontario Greenbelt Scandal

Ottawa, June 14, 2024 - This evening, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, recognized the exceptional journalism of this year’s six Michener Award finalists. The Michener Award for 2023 is presented jointly to The Narwhal and The Toronto Star for their reporting on the Ontario Greenbelt Scandal. “The Toronto Star […]