King's Alumni Nominated for CAJ Awards

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King's Alumni Nominated for CAJ Awards

An impressive array of King's alumni are listed as finalists for the Canadian Association of Journalists annual awards for 2009. The winners in each category will be announced May 29, 2010, at the CAJ Awards Banquet in Montreal. Congratulations to all the finalists.

• Community Newspaper:

Michel Gorman (BJ '05), "Housing Crisis Hits Yarmouth" Vanguard

• Daily Excellence:

John Vennavally-Rao (BJH '95)  "Metro Storms" CTV National News

• CAJ/CNW Student Award of Excellence:

Colin Parrott, Katie May, Zeb Quereshi, John Packman,Tony Ferguson, Breanne McAdam, Vivian Belik, Zander Brosky, Stephany Tlalka, Terrence McEachern, David Olsen, Steve Davis "Toxic Legacy"
The Coast (Fred Vallance Jones, Maestro) (King's Investigative Reporting Workshop 2009)

Additionally, The Coast, which is edited and published by two King's alumni (Kyle Shaw, BSc '91, BJ '92 and Christine Oreskovitch, BA '95) was a finalist in the Open Newspaper/Wire Service Category for Tim Bousquet's story "Everyone Loses Under the City's Property Tax Plan" and in the Print Feature Cateogory for Mattieu Aikins' story  "Unembedded in Afghanistan."