The Globe and Mail wins design awards, digital nominations

The Globe and Mail’s digital and design journalism was honoured Wednesday with a leading number of wins and nominations at two prestigious national and international award competitions.

The Society for News Design lauded The Globe’s visual and design journalism with 35 awards of excellence and a silver medal in its Best of News Design print category. Shortly afterwards, at Canada’s Digital Publishing Awards nominations announcement, The Globe received 17 total nominations, more than double that of several other national outlets, including the CBC and The Walrus. Read more…

The Globe and Mail launches The Decibel, a new weekday podcast

The Globe and Mail has launched its first daily news podcast, The Decibel. Hosted by Tamara Khandaker, this new podcast will explore a new topic in depth every weekday morning. In conversation with reporters, experts, and the people at the centre of the news, each episode of The Decibel will explore a story shaping our world.  The podcast is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartRadio and other podcast platforms.

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The Globe wins 10 National Newspaper Awards, Tom Cardoso wins Journalist of the Year

The Globe and Mail has been awarded 10 National Newspaper Awards for coverage that included an in-depth investigation into racial bias in Canada’s corrections system and reporting on repression in the Chinese region of Xinjiang.

The Globe was the most decorated publication this year by the NNAs, Canada’s most prestigious journalism prizes for text-based reporting. Awards went to departments across The Globe’s newsroom: politics, arts, sports, health, columns, design, features and investigations. Read more…

Stibo DX partners with Sophi.io, strengthening automation on CUE Publishing Platform

Stibo DX and Sophi.io are partnering to integrate Sophi, The Globe and Mail’s automation, prediction and optimization tools, into Stibo DX’s publishing platform, CUE. Sophi will be a native extension in CUE’s user interface. Read more…

The Globe and Mail receives 18 National Newspaper Award nominations

The Globe and Mail has received 18 nominations for this year’s National Newspaper Awards, including one recognizing the paper’s role in covering the shooting down of a passenger jet in Iran that killed 176 people, including dozens of Canadians, and another one for its coverage of the devastation inside Canada’s long-term care homes from the spread of COVID-19. Read more…

Globe wins 2021 Canadian Hillman Prize

The Globe and Mail has been awarded the 2021 Canadian Hillman Prize for Grant Robertson’s work ‘We are not prepared’: The flaws inside Public Health that hurt Canada’s readiness for COVID-19. The Hillman Prize honours excellence in journalism in service of the common good. Read more…

Report on Business Announces Winners of Best Executive Awards 2021

Report on Business is pleased to announce the winners of its second annual Best Executive Awards, which celebrates excellence among non-CEO leaders at the SVP, EVP and C-suite (or equivalent) levels. The 2021 winners represent the best of Canadian leadership in five functional areas: Finance; Human Resources; Operations; Sales and Marketing; and Technology. Read more…

 

Sophi.io Named a WordPress VIP Featured Technology Partner

WordPress VIP, the leading provider of enterprise WordPress, has added Sophi.io, the artificial intelligence system by The Globe and Mail, to its prestigious Technology Partnership program. Sophi joins a small group of enterprise technology companies serving VIP clients, and is the first partner to provide AI-powered automated content curation in addition to their predictive analytics and paywall solutions. Read more…

The Globe and Mail’s The Power Gap

On average, Canadian women make only 87 cents to every dollar made by a man. While that statistic is damning, a Globe and Mail investigation has found pay equity to be only a very small part of the problem faced by women in Canadian workplaces.

The real issue is the Power Gap—the sheer lack of women in positions of power. Read more…