Michelle Shephard: Somalia

Fairmont Royal York Hotel Dept: Those projects were among five awards won by at the 63rd National Newspaper Awards gala, held Friday at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel. Videographer Randy Risling, national security reporter Michelle Shephard and web designer James Ma won the multimedia feature category for a gripping series of on-the-ground stories and videos on Somalia . The award was Shephard s third. Last year was a stellar year for newsroom, and we re thrilled to see our efforts reflected in five National Newspaper Awards, one of the highest honours in Canadian journalism, said Star editor Michael Cooke. Our winners show excellence across a broad spectrum of types of storytelling. We are immensely proud of their work and honoured to work alongside them. Since the NNAs began in 1949, has won 129 awards, according to The Star. Urban affairs reporter Daniel Dale, who won consecutive Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prizes in 2010 and 2011 as Canada s best young journalist, won in the short features category for his first-person story about what happens when a stranger drops a toonie on the floor of a subway car and a revelatory multimedia glance at Somalia s crippling famine . A courageous investigation into abuse in Ontario long-term-care homes . An innovative graphic analysis of Toronto s skyrocketing condo boom. Catherine Farley, Brian Hughes, Noor Javed, Joe Rubin and Nuri Ducassi took home the presentation award for their three-part, graphics-rich look at Toronto s burgeoning skyline. Farley, who retired on Friday after a 20-year career on s graphics team, won her first NNA after being nominated four times. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.