CBC Saskatoon and Globe and Mail jointly win the Michener Award for excellence in public service journalism
CBC Saskatoon reporter Jason Warick and the Globe and Mail have jointly won the 2021 Michener Award for their stories of residential school abuses.
The Michener Award recognizes excellence in public service journalism.
After two years of virtual ceremonies, an personal ceremony was held Friday to honor the finalists and winners for both 2021 and 2022. Other finalists included Radio-Canada, The Eastern Graphic, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Global News and Kamloops This Week. View the full list here.
Warick told the story that the Catholic Church — which had run the majority of the country’s publicly funded residential schools — had paid only a fraction of the $79 million it promised survivors years ago. Instead, millions had been funneled from that account to pay the Church’s legal fees to lawyers and administration. And even as the church said it failed to meet its survivor fundraising goal, CBC revealed that it spent nearly $300 million on cathedrals and meetinghouses.
CBC Saskatoon reporter Jason Warick and the Globe and Mail have jointly won the 2021 Michener Award for their stories of residential school abuses.
The Globe and Mail team was also on the story, conducting the first-ever analysis of Canada’s Catholic Church net assets, amplifying survivors’ votes, fighting to obtain RCMP and church records, and producing more than one in 2021 dozen stories that explored the Church’s financial obligations to indigenous peoples.
Other CBC finalists for the 2021 Michener Award included The Fifth Estate and CBC Podcasts for their 2021 research by Peter Nygard and Evil by Design and CBC Saskatchewan and Geoff Leo for native or pretender?
CBC Saskatchewan and Leo were also 2022 finalists for the feature film Disputed History.
