Global News racks up 4 Canadian Association of Journalists award nominations

Four Global News features have been named as finalists for the 2014 Canadian Association of Journalists awards.

Canada’s Unwanted was nominated for the JHR/CAJ award for Human Rights Reporting. This in-depth investigation looks at the multiple questionable practices in Canada’s treatment of asylum-seekers and immigration detainees. It also found that Canada’s detention practices violate multiple guidelines issued by the UN High Commission on refugees.

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Global News’ investigation on post-traumatic stress disorder in the military, Invisible Wounds, was named as a finalist in the Online Media category. The special series features in-depth profiles of five different soldiers or veterans, all facing their own struggle with PTSD. It also focused on the role the government and the medical community in solving the crisis.

An in-depth broadcast feature from 16×9, Out of Shadows, was nominated in the Open Broadcast category. It brought you the story of a former policeman in New Brunswick who sexually abused dozens of children. As a result of our report, city officials revealed that the number of abused children was much higher than anyone imagined. And for the first time, one of those victims was able to share his story.

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And, Here’s the sex offender map Ontario didn’t want you to see, presented a unique interactive map that plotted a database of sex offenders by postal code across the province of Ontario. The painstaking investigation took six years of battling the province’s correction ministry over the numbers until a Supreme Court ruling ordered them to do so. It was nominated for an CAJ/Marketwired Data Journalism Award.

There were 235 entries for this year’s awards. The winners will be announced at a gala on June 6 in Halifax.

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