MAKING A DIFFERENCE
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
Freedom of Press Award 2025
From left: Editor-in-chief Jim Poling; Reporters Jeff Outhit, Terry Pender and Robert Williams
Nominated for over a dozen stories written on the Conestoga College international student scandal, and a series of stories looking into the mysterious disappearance of Waterloo Region District School board director Jeewan Chanicka.
A. O. Tate Memorial Award 2024
From left: Presenter, Cliff Lee; winner, Daniyah Yaqoob
For excellence in reporting in first year.
A.O. (Alf) Tate was a Toronto Star reporter, served in the Royal Canadian Navy as a photographer, and was a former president of the Toronto chapter of what is now SONG. Tate also loved flight, and was the first reporter to dispatch a story from the air. In September 1955, he was covering a story on board a U.S. Navy plane which, while investigating a hurricane, was lost over the Caribbean Sea.