2015.06.07
Probe of ‘rail fatigue’ wins CAJ Labour Reporting award
A CBC News team led by Dave Seglins that conducted an investigation into chronic fatigue among railway engineers has won a $1,000 award sponsored by CWA Canada.
The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) announced the winners of its annual awards for outstanding investigative journalism at a gala and conference banquet in Halifax on Saturday evening.
Rail fatigue in Canada — A silent peril, produced for CBC’s World Report and The Current, was among five finalists for the 2014 CWA Canada / CAJ Labour Reporting Award. Sharing credit with Seglins are John Nicol, Gord Westmacott, Heather Evans, Carla Turner and Jeremy McDonald — all of whom are members of the Canadian Media Guild (CMG), CWA Canada’s largest Local.
Other CWA Canada members among the finalists include:
- Ira Basen (CMG) for Class Struggle, which aired on CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition;
- Robert Bostelaar (Ottawa Newspaper Guild) for The secret squeeze, published by The Ottawa Citizen.
The two other finalists were Sunny Freeman (The 4,000 kilometre commute / Huffington Post) and Gordon Hoekstra (Call renewed for justice / Vancouver Sun).
Winners of awards in other categories, most of which bestow $500 cash prizes, can be found on the CAJ website.