Sunday May 4
Hamilton Spectator sweeps the Ontario Newspaper Awards
“The community owes Sher and his editors its gratitude for documenting a problem that affected the lives and health of thousands of people.”
- An investigative series that revealed elevated amounts of lead pouring from the taps of thousands of homes and brought sweeping changes to the way Ontario protects drinking water yielded the top prize of journalist of the year for the London Free Press's Jonathan Sher at the 54th annual Ontario Newspaper Awards.
The series, which included dozens of stories about unsafe lead levels at thousands of London homes and 36 other communities, pressured officials to release information to the public that had been kept under cover. Read more
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