News

Brian Zinchuk, the only photojournalist with whome I semi-regularly communicate, was just nominated for three provincial newspaper awards in the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association Better Newspapers Competition:

• Best News Story - Norma Jean Mooswa kills six at Cochin sentencing
• Best Hard News Photo - fatal semi accident at Battleford, semi jumps overpass
• Best Columnist of the Year

He also adds that of the twenty four awards available at this level to him and his newspaper, his newspaper, Battlefords News-Optimist was nominated for nine awards and he was a significant contributor in the pieces involved in two of the other awards: Best Front Page and Best Overall Paper.

I referred to Brian in a previous entry and he's also commented on it. I'm sorry Brian, you've told me before and you've repeated it . . . which newspaper do you work for again? I did a Google search for your name but it came up in some of the oddest places, the first hit was a link to this blog. Congratulations, Brian. Good luck with the awards.

Edited: Added the formal name for the newspaper competition and also the name of his newspaper.