The Courier’s Vancouver Special series has been nominated in the best print feature category at the 2014 Jack Webster Awards.
Vancouver Special was a collaborative project by the Courier editorial team to dedicate one issue every two weeks to each of Vancouver’s more than two dozen neighbourhoods, including UBC and the Musqueam lands. The project took place over the course of a year and involved print, photography and video.
The Courier team is up against nominees from the Vancouver Sun and the Province in the best feature story category.
This will be the fifth time the Courier has been up for a Webster award. It’s also the third nomination in a row this year for the Vancouver Special series, which won gold at the Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards and bronze at the Canadian Community Newspaper Association awards this spring.
The Websters, named for legendary broadcaster the late Jack Webster, honour the best in B.C. journalism in print, broadcast and online and are sponsored by the Jack Webster Foundation, which funds fellowships for B.C. journalists each year.
The awards will be handed out Oct. 29 at a dinner at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. National Post columnist Andrew Coyne is slated to be the guest speaker.
