By Karen Nickel
Dialog Reporer

The Canadian University Press (CUP) has released the short list of nominees for their 2012 John H. MacDonald Journalism Awards and The Dialog has reason to celebrate! The awards, nicknamed ‘The Johnnies’, began in 2003 as a way to recognize excellence in journalism across the campus press in Canada.

There are 14 award categories from arts and news writing, to sports and photography.  The short list names the top three nominees for each category. A winner and two runners-up will be announced at the JHM Gala at the Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library on Jan. 12. This event will coincide with the 75th CUP National Conference happening in Toronto from Jan. 9– 13.

George Brown students, staff and readers of The Dialog can be proud of our student newspaper, and especially our editor Mick Sweetman who has been nominated in the Labour Writing category for his article, “Why high school students walking out gives me hope” (published in The Dialog, Sept. 21- Oct. 4, 2012). Congratulations to Mick for being recognized nation-wide for his excellence in writing and we wish him good luck at the awards.