OTTAWA,
ON, April 25, 2024 /CNW/ - The Michener Awards
Foundation today announced its Michener-Deacon Fellowship has been
awarded to Ève Lévesque and Marie-Christine Noël, who will
lead an investigation into food security in Canada for L'Actualité. The Michener-L.
Richard O'Hagan Fellowship goes to Jean-Hugues Roy and Naël Shiab to create a
free online course on data journalism.
Each of these fellowships is worth $40,000 plus $5,000
in expenses.
The Michener-Deacon investigative project will seek
to answer one important question: How is it that thousands of
Canadians, even though they have a job and live in a prosperous
country, are turning to food banks to feed their families? The
investigation will look at the socio-economic mechanisms and public
policies that threaten food security. But primarily it will be
carried out with people on the front lines of the crisis: those who
work while struggling to feed themselves. The jury was won over by
the urgency of this issue and its public-interest dimension.
The Michener-L. Richard O'Hagan Fellowship for Journalism
Education will support the creation of a bilingual course
on data journalism, offered free online. The course "Code Like a
Journalist" will train journalists in techniques that allow them to
tap into massive databases, collect relevant information, analyze
the information, and make it visible and understandable to the
general public. The project caught the attention of the jury
because data journalism is a tool that is being increasingly
embraced by journalists, and because it will help serve the public
interest in the world of mass data and algorithms.
The Michener fellowship recipients will be honoured at the
annual Michener Awards ceremony at Rideau Hall on Friday, June 14, 2024, hosted by the Governor
General of Canada. This event
unveils the winner of the Michener Award for public service
journalism in Canada. Finalists
for the 2023 Michener Award will be announced next week.
The Michener-Deacon Investigative Journalism fellowship,
supported by TD Bank Group, allows a journalist to devote up to
four months for a reporting project. Applicants are required to
undertake a project that aspires to the criteria of the annual
Michener Award for journalism with its emphasis on making an impact
for the public good.
The Michener-L. Richard O'Hagan Fellowship for Journalism
Education, supported by BMO, is dedicated to the advancement and
enrichment of the education of Canadian journalists and journalism
students. Winning projects are designed to expand the knowledge of
newsroom products, processes and practices.
Judges for the 2024 Michener Fellowships:
- Geneviève Rossier (Chair), Directrice générale, CN2I;
- Maxime Bertrand, Director,
Community Relations and Journalistic Standards, Radio-Canada;
- Raymond Brassard, former
Executive Editor of the Montreal Gazette and Editorial Consultant
at the National Newspaper Awards;
- Vivian Smith, PhD, Editorial
consultant, former Globe and Mail journalist and university
journalism instructor, author of Outsiders Still (U of T
Press).
- Pierre-Paul Noreau, past
president of the Michener Awards Foundation, chair of the Quebec
Press Council
SOURCE Michener Awards Foundation