General Excellence (Circulation 17500 and over)Back
Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: St (Albert Gazette, St, Albert, AB) Judge Comment: This paper provides comprehensive community coverage and presents it well. It goes further to do what newspapers must do to be relevant today -- provide background and context to make sense of what is happening. A neighbourhood renaming is fully explored, including comparing it with what other communities have done faced with features named after the same person. Issues involving U.S. tariffs are explored by way of their impact on local merchants. Statistics on emergency room closures are personalized with the experience of residents affect by them. All in all, a paper that continues to make a difference.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Prince George Citizen (Prince George, BC) Judge Comment: You read this paper and you really feel you know what is going on in this community. I hesitate to use the term, but it really is old-school, with comprehensive coverage of the range of activities that occur in the lives of its readers, and enough fun to give the paper added value beyond its editorial content.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: North Shore News (North West Vancouver, BC) Judge Comment: This is a model community paper, with lots of relevant local coverage well presented, giving readers news about where they live, information on events and entertainment, in a paper they can spend time with and pick up again and again.
