16×9 nominated twice for Beyond Borders award

WATCH ABOVE: 16×9’s “A City’s Shame”

16×9 has been nominated for two Beyond Borders ECPAT Media Awards.

Correspondent Sean O’Shea and producer Hannah James were nominated for their work on “Generation X-Rated”, a story looking at a new generation of young, healthy men who are suffering from a condition called porn-induced erectile dysfunction.

WATCH BELOW: 16×9’s “Generation X-Rated”

Global National’s Jennifer Tryon and 16×9 producer, Brennan Leffler were nominated for their work on “A City’s Shame”, and their follow up investigation “Out of Shadows”, where they uncovered at least 40 victims who say they were sexually assaulted by a former Saint John, N.B. Police officer, Kenneth Estabrooks. After 16×9 aired “A City’s’ Shame”, investigators hired by the city of Saint John came forward publicly to say Estabrooks sexually abused at least 260 children over the course of nearly three decades dating back to the late 1950s.

WATCH ABOVE: 16×9’s “Out of Shawdows”

The Beyond Borders awards honour Canadian journalists for exemplary work covering child sexual exploitation.

The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony on November 17th, 2014 at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

See a full list of nominees here.