Nominations for News-Optimist

Staff

The Battlefords News Optimist’s staff reporter Miguel Fenrich has been nominated for five awards in the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association’s 2023 Better Newspapers Competition.

Fenrich has been nominated in the categories of Best Tourism Story of Series of Stories, Best Hard News Photo, Best First Nations Coverage, Best Saskatchewan Arts or Cultural Series of Stories and Best Saskatchewan Arts or Cultural Story, Article or Column.

Lisa Joy, former staff reporter and now SASKTODAY.ca reporter who covers court and crime in the Battlefords area, was nominated in two categories, Best First Nations Coverage and Best Feature Story, for her article “Thunderchild woman survives ride with ‘The Truck Stop Killer.’ The Battlefords NewsOptimist is also nominated in the Best Editorial Page category for its circulation class.

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