Radio-Canada honored six times Saturday night at the Judith Jasmin Awards ceremony at the annual convention of the Quebec Professional Association of Journalists (FPJQ), held in Saint-Sauveur in the Laurentians.
The price Homage to Judith-Jasmin was given to the journalist Marie-José Turcotte.
A pioneer of sports coverage, Ms. Turcotte served as an anchor, commentator and presenter. From 1988 to 1994 she was the first presenter of the sports program L’univers des Sports.
Marie-José Turcotte took part in the coverage of the Olympic Games 17 times, including 15 times as a presenter.
“Radio-Canada’s archives bear witness to his accuracy, his professionalism and the humanity that characterized his work over the 40 years of his productive career,” the association writes.
And the other winners are…
In the Business and Economics category.It was the journalist Gaétan Pouliot and the director Laurence Mathieu-Léger who were honored for the report “The hidden face of Neptune” (New Window), broadcast in March 2023 on the Enquête program.
Gaétan Pouliot’s investigation into Neptune Security Services is impressive for the scope of his research and the amount of resources used to uncover the CEO’s fraudulent maneuvers, such as using the hidden camera twice to prove that he was using two identities.
The FPJQ emphasizes that following this report, the Public Procurement Authority (AMP) excluded the company in question from public contracts for five years.
In the Investigation categoryThe journalist Chantal Lavigne and the director Gil Shochat were honored for the report “The Dirty Secrets of Recycling” (New Window), broadcast on Enquête in February 2022.
The Ricova company lost the contract for the Lachine sorting center and claims to have improved the quality of its bales leaving the Saint-Michel sorting center. Since then, Ottawa has placed Ricova under strict operating conditions, explains the FPJQ.
In the Local and regional category, Philippe Grenier received the Judith Jasmin Prize for his report “The Heritage of Beauceron Popular Speech” (New Window), published on the Radio-Canada website.
The report not only has a unifying effect on the community, but also enables people outside this region to understand all the intricacies of the popular Beauceron speech, said the jury in this category.
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Maria Davydenko in the courtyard of her house, bombed twice. This photo by Radio-Canada’s Jean-François Bélanger won the Antoine Desilets Prize.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Jean-François Bélanger
In the Science and Environment category., It is the report “Human fertilizer in the fields” (New Window), broadcast on La Semaine Verte on November 26, 2022, for which the journalist Carine Monat and the director Geneviève Brault received a Judith Jasmin Prize.
The jury stated that this report, which enabled the public to learn that solid sludge resulting from the dumping of human waste could be dumped in the fields, convinced the authorities to impose a moratorium on the importation of solid sludge to disallow.
Jean-François Bélanger won the Antoine Desilets Prize Portraits category. for the photo Maria Davydenko in the courtyard of her house, which was bombed twice. (New window)
Sarah Champagne wins the Judith-Jasmin Grand Prix
It was the journalist Sarah Champagne who won the prize Judith-Jasmin Grand Prize for his documentary Essentiels and the series of articles “The Great Shift in Immigration” published in Le Devoir last January. Sarah Champagne also won the Judith Jasmin Prize Category Politics and Social for the same series.
La Presse’s Isabelle Hachey also received two awards. She is the winner of the prize of Miscellaneous News and Crime Category. for the report “The Child of Rape, Truth and Justice” and that of Opinion category for her column, “He took advantage of my silence,” in which she reveals the pain and anger that Carol Dubé suppressed two years after the loss of her Atikamekw wife, Joyce Echaquan.
The journalist Louis-Philippe Bourdeau and the videographer Sébastien Boivin from Noovo won the prize for Main reporting category for their series “Noovo info in Ukraine: a year of war”.
The journalist Catherine Lalonde from the daily newspaper Le Devoir received the Judith Jasmin Prize Art and Culture Category for his report “Warning: This Trauma Alert Doesn’t Work.”