“The extraordinary interest in the new English and French awards for reporting on mental health pressures on children, youth and young adults is very encouraging,” said the Forum’s president. lonsdale cliff. “There were 34 entries, with 16 people named among the finalists. Clearly, a growing number of journalists understand the importance of well-focused and informed journalism in this key area.”
Through the Mindset Awards and its French equivalent, les Prix En-Tête, the awards honored 22 journalists and other team members. Nine of those awards were presented this weekend at a national awards gala held in Montreal by the Canadian Association of Journalists.
The full list of awards for works published or broadcast in 2021:
Mindset Award for Workplace Mental Health Reporting
First prize:
tom murphy, cute warrior, Rachel Ward, patrick callaghanLiz Rose Y Loretta Hicks on CBC’s The Fifth Estate, for broken honor, an investigation into how military police and court officials allow cases of sexual misconduct to go unpunished and the mental health consequences; transmission March 12, 2021.
Honorific mention:
nadine yousif, mental health reporter for The Toronto Star, for Stressed and overworked, nurses hailed as ‘healthcare heroes’ struggle to find helppublished February 8th2021.
Mindset Award for reporting on youth mental health
Two First prizes:
Robert Cribb with morgan bottleneck (Toronto Star) Y Charlie Buckley, Julia Fiaoni, Declan Keogh, Radha Kohley, Liam G McCoy Y Danielle Orr (Office of Investigative Journalism of the University of Toronto) for the 2021 part of a two-year collaborative series generational anguishpublished in The Toronto Star on February 19th, March, 15th, April 26 Y November 212021.
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Simon Lewsen with photographer Chloē Ellingson for Inside the Mental Health Crisis Facing College and University Studentsa 7,000-word article with photographic and multimedia portraits, published in The Walrus October 26, 2021.
HONORIFIC MENTION:
odette auger, freelance reporter from British Columbia, to Telling the Truth Kindly: How to Talk to Younger Members of Our Community About Residential Schools, posted on Windspeaker on July 82021.
Le prix En-Tête pour le reportage en santé mentale au travail:
FIRST PRIZE:
angie landry by Parler du suicide pour la suite du mondepublished online by Radio-Canada on March 10, 2021. He highlighted how the psychological stresses imposed on social workers by the COVID pandemic were worse than those on health workers in the “physical health” field.
HONORIFIC MENTION:
Isabelle Burgun by Le Milieu communinautaire opened for the pandemic in Agence Science-Presse at July 26, 2021. The story details how organizations supporting the most disadvantaged struggled to maintain the social safety net during the pandemic.
Le prix En-Tête pour le reportage en santé mentale chez les jeunes:
FIRST PRIZE:
Carolina Touzin by Une pandemie dans la tête, in La Presse on June 12, 2021. She was the only journalist in quebec dive into a psychiatric unit in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, to detail the impacts of public health measures on the mental health of adolescents there.
HONORIFIC MENTION:
Florence Morin-Martel by Peut-on la garder en vie, s’il vous plaït? in La Presse on October 122021. The story highlighted a mother’s complaint that her depressed 15-year-old daughter couldn’t access treatment, even though she was “a real ticking time bomb,” because she too is on the autism spectrum.
The awards are named after a Canada unique journalist-to-journalist guides to mental health reporting, produced by the Forum, which have become established leaders in their field with more than 13,000 copies distributed free of charge over the past eight years to newsrooms, individual journalists and journalism schools . The guidelines are supported by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, with funding from Health Canada. The Forum is responsible for the content.
The well-established Mindset and En-Tête awards for workplace mental health reporting are managed by the Forum and sponsored by Workplace Strategies for Mental Health, courtesy of Canada Life, which is offered as a resource for journalists working in the workplace. that field.
The new Mindset and En-Tête awards for reporting on youth mental health are administered by the Forum and sponsored by the Canadian Mental Health Association.
All winners are chosen by independent juries from among the finalists selected by the Forum.
The Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma is a charity dedicated to the physical safety and mental well-being of journalists, their audiences and the people they report on. We are grateful for the support of the Globe and Mail, CBC News and Radio-Canada for aspects of our work not related to these awards. Our thanks to Cision/CNW for sponsoring this announcement.
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For More Information: For more information on the awards, visit https://www.mindset-mediaguide.ca; contact Jane Hawkes, Executive Producer, Canadian Journalism Forum on Violence and Trauma, 519 852-4946 / [email protected]
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