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06/11/2026
CTV/W5 and Taproot Publishing Win CJF Excellence Awards
TORONTO, June 10, 2026 /CNW/ - W5/CTV News is this year's recipient of the CJF Dr. Eric Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism in the large-media category for organizations with more than 50 newsroom employees. W5 received the award this evening at the annual Canadian Journalism Foundation Awards.
Named in honour of CJF founder Dr. Eric Jackman, this annual excellence award established in 1996 recognizes news organizations, large and small, that embrace journalistic excellence — originality, courage, independence, accuracy, social responsibility, accountability and diversity — resulting in a positive impact on the communities they serve.
The CJF honoured W5/CTV News for Sleeping with the Enemy, an explosive investigation exposing a world of misogynistic criminality being secretly perpetrated by men against the women they claim to love.
In the small-media category, Taproot Publishing Inc., a digital publication “for and about the Edmonton region” was honoured for its 2025 Election Project covering the Edmonton municipal election. The election coverage centered on the Taproot Survey as a way to focus on the issues that mattered most to voters instead of on the electoral horse race.
Among the evening's other honourees:
• The inaugural CJF Hinton Award for Excellence in AI Safety Reporting went to Alexios Mantzarlis, the co-founder of Indicator, an online publication dedicated to exposing digital deception.
• CJF Award for Climate Solutions Reporting: This year's award went to The Narwhal for On solid ice: the plan to refreeze the Arctic reported by Chloe Williams and photographer Gavin John on the disappearing sea ice and its impacts on Inuit communities, as well as an ambitious scientific idea to thicken the ice.
• The $5,000 Landsberg Award, celebrating exceptional coverage of women's equality issues, went to Emma Jarratt of the Investigative Journalism Bureau, an investigative unit conducting collaborative research projects with academics and journalists at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
Read the media release: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/ctv-w5-and-taproot-publishing-win-cjf-excellence-awards-893902312.html
The CJF thanks Sobeys, the Canadian Bankers Association, WSP and the Canadian Medical Association as our Champion of Indigenous Journalism sponsors.
Together, their support enables early-career Indigenous journalists to gain valuable newsroom experience and mentoring through the CJF-CBC Indigenous Journalism Fellowships. This year’s recipient of an immersive four-month placement at CBC Indigenous is Gregory Conway, a writer and editor from Curve Lake First Nation who lives and works in Peterborough/Nogojiwanong. His work explores environmental sustainability, land stewardship, ecocriticism and community building.
During the fellowship, which runs from September through December 2026, Conway will work with CBC journalists and editors, gaining experience in pitching, reporting, fact-checking and producing stories for a national audience. The story or series resulting from the fellowship experience will be considered for publication or broadcast by CBC News.
Thank you to Sobeys, CBA, WSP and CMA for making this possible!
Learn more about the 2026 on Wednesday, June 10, at the Fairmont Royal York: https://cjf-fjc.ca/2026-cjf-awards
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