Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Press Freedom Awards! Press Freedom Award Winner Frédérik Plante Frédérik Plante has waged a running battle with the Quebec government over its attempts to clamp down on freedom-of-information requests and withhold evidence of police racial profiling. Three years ago, as a reporter for The Globe and Mail in […]
Read MoreCongratulations to the winners of the 2025 Press Freedom Awards! Press Freedom Award Winner Daniel Renaud Daniel Renaud’s colleagues in the La Presse newsroom may know him as a quiet professional, but his courageous reporting speaks volumes about the importance of diligent, independent and utterly fearless journalism in Canada. It also came perilously close to […]
Read MoreCongratulations to the winners of the 2024 Press Freedom Awards! Press Freedom Award Winner Melissa Martin Martin is an award-winning reporter-at-large for the Winnipeg Free Press. After Russia’s 2022 invasion, Martin made a reporting trip to Ukraine. In 2023, she took a leave from the paper and returned to Ukraine to live, sharing dispatches via […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Vincent Larouche, winner of the 2023 Press Freedom Prize World Press Freedom Canada (WPFC) is delighted to announce La Presse’s Vincent Larouche as the winner of the 2023 Press Freedom Award. The award is given annually to a journalist who has overcome secrecy, legal maneuvers, political intimidation, interference, or other safety risks to produce an […]
Read MoreCongratulations to 2022 Press Freedom Award Co-Winners Fatima Syed and Tai Huynh Fatima Syed is a Mississauga-based journalist who joined The Narwhal’s Ontario bureau in the latter part of 2021. She is also host of Canadaland’s The Backbench podcast. As a local journalist with a keen eye on her city, Fatima saw the appalling toll […]
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