The 2023 Michener Awards ceremony was held on June 14th, 2024, at Rideau Hall, the official residence of the Governor General of Canada, located in Ottawa, Ontario. This year’s finalists included a range of outstanding newsrooms covering vital stories from across the country.  

The 2023 Michener Award winner for meritorious public service  journalism is The Narwhal and The Toronto Star for their reporting on the Ontario Greenbelt Scandal. Additionally, Chantal Hébert, OC and Terry Mosher, OC were awarded the Michener-Baxter Award for Exceptional Service to Canadian Journalism.

In addition to these awards, the ceremony celebrated Ève Lévesque and Marie-Christine Noël, who received the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Investigative Journalism, and Jean-Hugues Roy and Naël Shiab, who received the Michener-L. Richard O’Hagan Fellowship for Journalism Education.

Watch the full ceremony on the Cable Public Affairs Channel here.

Ceremony at Rideau Hall

Photographer: Sgt Anis Assari, Rideau Hall © OSGG, 2024

Ève Lévesque, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, and Marie-Christine Noël
Ève Lévesque, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, and Marie-Christine Noël
Naël Shiab and Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon
Naël Shiab and Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon
Chantal Hébert with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon
Chantal Hébert with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon
Terry Mosher with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon
Terry Mosher with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon
The Narwhal and The Toronto Star teams with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon.
The Narwhal and The Toronto Star teams with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon.
Michener Award finalists and winners, Michener-Baxter Award recipients, and Michener Fellowship recipients with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon and His Excellency Whit Fraser.
Michener Award finalists and winners, Michener-Baxter Award recipients, and Michener Fellowship recipients with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon and His Excellency Whit Fraser.