Newfoundland community newspaper Wreckhouse Press wins big at Atlantic Journalism Awards

This image revealed by Wreckhouse Press demonstrates a property combating versus high winds triggered by article-tropical storm Fiona in Port aux Basques. (Rene Roy/Wreckhouse Press by means of The Canadian Press)

Information businesses from throughout Atlantic Canada were being recognized for their do the job in radio, print and tv on Thursday night time, but a community newspaper masking the southwest coast of Newfoundland was a huge winner.

Wreckhouse Push, an independent newspaper based in Port aux Basques, secured Gold awards at the Atlantic Journalism Awards in Halifax, successful in the types of breaking information, photojournalism portrait/attribute and ideal group newspaper news story.

Each and every award was tied to the paper’s coverage of publish-tropical storm Fiona, which ravaged the southwest coast in September.

Editor in Chief Rene Roy and his compact team pumped out numerous tales documenting the injury and stories of the storm, alongside with pics and online video that were seen around the environment.

“It was so rigorous that I did not genuinely imagine about the excellent. I just desired to get data out. So the reality that we managed to get both equally, it’s pleasant to know,” Roy instructed CBC Radio Friday.

“We barely experienced time to system something and then we gained … three of the initially 4 awards. And, you know, immediately after that we were just form of sitting down there flabbergasted. It was really rather an honour to get all 3 of these, and I are not able to converse enough good about the staff that set all this things collectively.”

Roy suggests the awards clearly show the significance of community media in Newfoundland and Labrador and across the country as reporters keep on to inform the story of a area that continues to be in recovery method.

“We’re continue to recovering from Fiona. Issues are continue to occurring,” he reported.

“When it will come to neighborhood data, [a] neighborhood newspaper, it can be a reliable supply. It really is critical. and what I take into consideration most important is, even following all people remaining we are nonetheless there and we’re continue to inquiring queries.”

A man stares out at the sea.
Rene Roy, editor-in-chief of the Wreckhouse Push local community newspaper, hopes the awards can showcase the importance of area news in rural Newfoundland and Labrador communities. (Troy Turner/CBC)

Roy says the importance also goes over and above breaking news activities, focusing on stories that make any difference to persons in their communities.

“It will not always get a large story like Fiona. It could be about the airports, it could be about the streets that washed out two a long time ago when we were being reduce off from the rest of the island,” he reported.

“Which is why group information is so extremely significant.”


CBC Newfoundland and Labrador also received four Gold awards and 6 Silver awards at the Atlantic Journalism Awards:

  • Radio Element: I Nevertheless Live In this article (John Gaudi and Lindsay Fowl, Atlantic Voice).
  • Ideal Facts Information Radio Plan: St John’s Morning Demonstrate (Jo Anne Dooley, Krissy Holmes, Ariana Kelland, Jonny Hodder, Caroline Hillier and Andrew Wiseman).
  • Tv Feature: Project Bonavista (Mark Cumby and Lindsay Fowl)
  • Any Medium / Business enterprise Reporting: Stephenville Airport offer scrutiny (Troy Turner, Rob Antle, Colleen Connors and Avanthinka Anand)

Silver Awards:

  • Radio Business Reporting: Acquiring Property (Caroline Hillier and Krissy Holmes)
  • Radio Characteristic, Any Medium/ Company Reporting: Hola, Glovertown (Caroline Hiller, Danny Arsenault, Mike Rossiter and John Gushue)
  • Finest Details Information Radio Method: Newfoundland Early morning, Fiona Remote Present (Bernice Hillier, Martin Jones, Cherie Wheeler, David Newell, Brian McHugh and James Grudic)
  • Television Enterprise: Return to Davis Inlet (Ariana Kelland, Katie Breen and Angela Gilbert)
  • Television Aspect: Habitats: Diving for Ghost Equipment in Hickman’s Harbour (Amanda Bulman and Rodrigo Iniguez)

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