General excellence | class 8 COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY
6 ENTRIES
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Durham College The Chronicle
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Fanshawe College Interrobang
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Congratulations and well done! This is a very professional paper with great photography and layout. Solid stories and editorial.
Almost won first place. Great artwork throughout. Good folksy editorial. Good story mix. Sports photography could use some action shots. Photos could be larger.
Algonquin College Algonquin Times
Good paper. Would have had a higher score if an editorial/op-ed page was included. Suggestion - solicit comments from students via Facebook or Twitter. Photography & college sports room for improvement.
HONOURABLE MENTION Humber College | Et Cetera – Solid paper. Consider an editorial page with commentary. Local advertising and community news could be included. University of Waterloo | Imprint – Good editorial page. More campus news and university sports would have significantly increased your score. Great job!
GENERAL COMMENT
I am extremely pleased to see that these future journalists are so talented! If they stay in the newspaper profession, these next generation professionals will enhance our community newspapers well into the future!
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2020 | BNC Awards Results
Judge
Mike Wollock
Publisher Your Community Voice Ottawa, ON
Mike Wollock has been involved with newspapers for more than 50 years. His papers have won numerous awards over four decades from OCNA, CCNA and QCNA. Taking over the family business of a small community newspaper in Montreal at the tender age of 24, within 10 years, he was able to grow the paper into Quebec’s second largest English community newspaper, after the daily Gazette. Moving to Ottawa in 1988, he started 7 community newspapers on his kitchen table, before retiring in 2005. Mike came out of retirement in 2019 to start 3 community newspapers after the closure of the local papers. He strongly believes that a vibrant community newspaper enhances the communities that it serves, and that there will always be a place for the local paper.
ONTARIO COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION
