Navigating Through the Fog, a four-part series focusing on families living with autism, has been chosen by the Local Media Association as the best in its class for in-depth reporting.
The media industry association, which accepts entries from hundreds of community newspapers from across North America in its annual editorial competition, recognized the Metroland West Media Group team feature that ran in the Flamborough Review and its sister papers, Milton’s The Canadian Champion, Burlington Post and Oakville Beaver through October and November 2012.
Reporters Catherine O’Hara of the Flamborough Review and Julie Slack of the Milton Canadian Champion teamed up with Oakville Beaver photographer Eric Riehl to document the unique challenges families face when a child is diagnosed with autism, and the options available to them within – and outside of – the province’s health and education systems.
To read Navigating Through the Fog, visit www.flamboroughreview.com/news/navigating-the-fog-families-living-on-the-autism-spectrum/.
The Review was also earned recognition in two additional categories. Editor Brenda Jefferies’s headline “Horse rescue gets a bale-out” was awarded second in its class, while reporter Dianne Cornish won third place in the breaking news category for her coverage of the Enbridge Line 9 protesters at the company’s Westover transfer station last June.