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Jack Sigvaldason honoured again Canadian journalists select Northern publisher for lifetime achievement awardIssued by Canadian Association of Journalists Special to Northern News Services Published Friday, April 6, 2012
The eight jurors on the Lifetime Achievement Award selection jury reviewed nearly 100 nominations before electing Sigvaldason, whose newspapers cover 63 communities. "Jack Sigvaldason has made an unprecedented contribution to journalism in Canada as publisher of Northern News Services, seven independent papers which have been recognized as the best community newspapers in Canada," says Valerie Pringle, one of the jurors and long-time program host and television journalist at CBC and CTV. "The fact that he created this feisty, profitable mini-newspaper empire in the NWT and Nunavut serving 60,000 people in two languages (English and Inuktitut) over an area of 1.5 million square miles is a massive achievement and the centrepiece of a 50-year career." "It takes great determination and skill to satisfy different cultures speaking different languages while maintaining high standards as both a journalist and a businessman," says Miller Ayre, another jury member and former group publisher of Transcontinental Media's operations in Newfoundland and Labrador. "Jack has spent a lifetime building a remarkable network of papers in a tricky economy while still being a thorn in the side of the political establishment. I can't wait to meet him." The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Sigvaldason at the CJF Annual Awards Gala on June 7 at The Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. Other awards to be presented include the Excellence in Journalism Award, the Greg Clark Award and the Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award. This is the second honour bestowed on Sigvaldason in the past year. The International Society of Weekly Newspapers handed him a lifetime achievement award in 2011.
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