The Record is once again taking its place among the best community newspapers in B.C.
New Westminster’s hometown newspaper has three nominations in the recently announced 2018 B.C. Ma Murray Community Newspaper Awards. The award finalists were announced by the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspapers Association last week.
The Record is once again up for Newspaper Excellence in its circulation category, as one of three finalists alongside the Parksville/Qualicum Beach News and the Yukon News.
Reporter Cayley Dobie is a finalist in feature writing for “Fighting the ‘low-status’ label,” a feature about New Westminster Secondary School’s trades apprenticeship programs that ran in the paper in June.
Reporter Cornelia Naylor is a finalist for the Neville Shanks Memorial Award for Historical Writing for her two-part piece, "The unbreakable Susie Chew." The story of the founder of New Westminster’s iconic Waffle House - and the national news story she unwittingly found herself at the heart of - ran in the Record in April 2017. (Find it here and here.)
Awards will be presented at a gala at River Rock Casino Resort on April 28.
For a full list of finalists, see www.bccommunitynews.com.
