Family photos of Amber Tuccaro in Fort Chipewyan, Alta. The Globe’s Jana G. Pruden won the Landsberg Award for the podcast In Her Defence: 50th Street that investigated Tuccaro's disappearance.Amber Bracken/The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail has won 10 Digital Publishing Awards for work that included a series of stories on Canada’s housing market, coverage of last summer’s Olympics and an investigation into a deadly listeria outbreak.
The Globe’s Jana G. Pruden also won the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Landsberg Award for the podcast In Her Defence: 50th Street, which examined the unsolved death of an Indigenous woman in Alberta – a project that also won a Digital Publishing Award.
The National Media Awards Foundation handed out the Digital Publishing Awards at an event in Toronto on Friday.
The gold awards included:
- Best Digital Editorial Package for a project called House Poor that dug into the state of Canada’s housing crisis.
- Best Digital Editorial Package for coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
- Best Data Journalism for a project called Wasted Space that examined the amount of government-owned land that could be converted into housing.
- Best News Coverage for an investigation into a deadly listeria outbreak, which revealed problems with how the Canadian Food Inspection Agency decides which production facilities to inspect.
- Best Feature for a story about women participating in the rodeo event of breakaway roping.
The Globe also won five silver medals. Those were:
- Best One-of-a-Kind Storytelling for an interactive look at break dancing, the newest Olympic sport.
- Best Topical Reporting: Climate Change for a story about how climate change is imperiling Arctic sea ice routes.
- Best Service Feature for the 2024 edition of Canada’s Most Livable Cities.
- Best Podcast: True Crime for In Her Defence: 50th Street.
- Best Photo Storytelling for a photo essay about the push to increase the role of midwives for pregnancy care and childbirth.
The Canadian Journalism Foundation Awards were presented at a gala in Toronto on Thursday.
The Landsberg Award, which celebrates journalists who enhance awareness of women’s equality issues, went to Ms. Pruden and producer Kasia Mychajlowycz for the podcast In Her Defence: 50th Street.
The podcast series, which also had a companion feature, investigated the disappearance of Amber Tuccaro, who disappeared in 2010 and whose body was found two years later.
The case hasn’t been solved and was plagued by problems with how police responded to and investigated Ms. Tuccaro’s disappearance.
Journalist Michele Landsberg, for whom the award is named, said when the podcast was nominated that it was “powerful, deeply researched and profoundly sensitive.”