War Memorial Cartoon Mints Canada's 'Journalist of the Year'
Inaugural National Newspaper Award honor goes to Bruce MacKinnon.
Published the day after the fatal October 22 shooting on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill of Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a reservist guarding the National War Memorial, the Halifax Chronicle Herald editorial cartoon imagined the Memorial’s bronze World War I figures coming to life to comfort Cirillo. Upon publication, the image rocketed to the top of Reddit and Imgur and was shown in coverage on CNN, Fox News and elsewhere.
Friday night in Toronto, the cartoonist responsible for the image, Bruce MacKinnon, accepted the first-ever Journalist of the Year citation from Canada’s National Newspaper Awards.
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