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Article: Free Press reporters nominated for awards
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- March 10, 2007
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A story about the booming -- but shadowy -- business of slaughtering horses earned Free Press reporter Paul Wiecek criticism and rebuke at the racetrack.
On Friday, it also earned him a nomination for one of the most coveted awards in Canadian journalism.
Wiecek's 5,000-word story, headlined Saddling up for slaughter, was named a finalist in the sports writing category of the 2006 National Newspaper Awards.
It was one of two NNA nominations for the Free Press.
Reporter Dan Lett, now a provincial affairs columnist, received his second NNA nomination in four years for his series, Seeds of Hope, which traced the journey of a 50-tonne shipment of Manitoba wheat to refugee camps in Sudan.
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