Global BC wins Webster Award for breaking news reporting

Global BC’s television team took home a Webster Award for breaking news reporting during Wednesday night’s virtual ceremony.

Paul Johnson, Jim Helgason, Catherine Urquhart, Alex Sumner and Darren Twiss won the Best Breaking News – TV/Video award for their “Unmarked Graves Discovery” entry.

Their coverage took them to Kamloops after the initial confirmation on May 28 of at least 215 unmarked burial sites at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, which closed in 1969.

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The team also continued to follow up as reaction poured in in the days and weeks after.

2:46 Indigenous and political leaders react to residential school discovery