UBC Journalism students have won two out of three top European awards for budding journalists in Canada. Trevor D’Arcy ‘09 and Anna Olejarczyk ‘08 are Canadian winners of the 2008 European Union Young Journalist Award.
Olejarczyk won for her article on the changing nature of Polish migration to Canada and within the European Union. She just accepted a job as a Web Editor at the Warsaw Business Journal.
D’Arcy’s article looked at the cross-border impact of allowing cloned food into the marketplace. He used EU policy and experience to examine what can happen when neighbouring countries, such as Canada and the U.S., have opposing regulatory approaches on such an important issue. D’Arcy, who is specializing in science journalism, will be an intern this summer at the Penticton Herald.
Gaétan Pouliot of the Université de Montréal won the third award with the article “Les Roms.”
Graduate School of Journalism Director Stephen J. A. Ward said the awards reflect the School’s focus on interdisciplinarity, global issues and training in rigorous evidence-based journalism.
“I am pleased for the students,” he said. “I am excited that they have an opportunity to learn more about such an important and innovative political institution as the EU.”
The three winners have been invited to a reception in Ottawa on May 14, 2008. They will be going on a one-week study trip to Brussels to visit the European Union institutions in the first week of June. Brussels, the home of the European Union’s institutions, is host to the largest permanent press corps in the world.
