Free Press series nets major award
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A team of Winnipeg Free Press journalists has been honoured by the Sidney Hillman Foundation.
No Running Water, a series that examined the lack of access to clean running water on Island Lake First Nations reserves, won an honourable mention in the 2011 Canadian Hillman Prize competition. Assistant city editor Helen Fallding, photojournalist Joe Bryksa and multimedia editor Tyler Walsh formed the No Running Water team.
It is the first time the prestigious Hillman Foundation has offered an award in Canada. The Hillman Prize, presented to American journalists since 1950, honours journalists who seek out stories that change lives and whose work identifies important social and economic issues and helps bring about change for the better.
“No Running Water was a powerful series, put together by some of our best journalists,” said Margo Goodhand, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. “I couldn’t be happier for them, or prouder of the fact their work has been recognized by the Hillman Foundation. We truly do hope No Running Water will bring about ‘change for the better.’ “
Steve Buist of the Hamilton Spectator won the Canadian Hillman Prize for his investigative piece, Code Red, which used the social determinants of health to examine the staggering poverty in some Hamilton neighbourhoods and demonstrated the connections that exist between poverty and poor health.
The Free Press team will travel to an awards ceremony in Toronto on March 22 to receive their award.
“Our team will raise a glass — of water — at the awards ceremony in Toronto to remind Canadian journalists of the responsibility to keep drawing attention to this issue until easily accessible, clean water is something every family in this country can take for granted,” said Fallding.
“We received more than 20 fabulous entries this year, which demonstrated how truly important and valuable investigative journalism is in Canada,” said Alex Dagg, a director of the Hillman Foundation and Canadian director of Workers United, a successor union to ACTWU.
