Free Press up for four National Newspaper Awards

The Winnipeg Free Press has been nominated for four National Newspaper Awards, among Canadian journalism’s top honours.

Nominees:

Ryan Thorpe

Reporter Ryan Thorpe is nominated in the investigation category for his weeks-long work detailing dangerous conditions inmates are forced to navigate inside 143-year-old Stony Mountain Correctional Institution, and in the long feature category for his close look at the first year of the pandemic in Manitoba.

Jen Zoratti

Jen Zoratti is nominated in the arts category for her profile of Goota Ashoona, a third-generation Inuit artist.

Malak Abas, Dean Pritchard & Paul Samyn

Reporters Malak Abas, Dean Pritchard and?Free Press?Editor Paul Samyn are nominated together in the breaking news category for what the NNA judges called “aggressive reporting” in delivering the shocking story of a nurse’s stabbing at Seven Oaks Hospital and the doctor who jumped in to save her life by overpowering the attacker.

For the full story read here on the Winnipeg free press website.