The Toronto Star has earned seven nominations across six categories for this year’s Best in Business Awards.
Every year, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) nominates journalists for their “outstanding Canadian business reporting.” SABEW received more than 202 entries for its awards this year, narrowing it down to three nominees for all 13 categories.
With it’s seven nominations, the Star received the second most nods this year behind the Globe and Mail, which lead the pack with 21 nominations in 12 categories. The nominations recognized the Star’s reporting across a variety of mediums, from investigations to podcasts.
This is SABEW’s 11th year recognizing business journalism in Canada. The winners will be announced at a celebration in downtown Toronto on May 28.
Here are the Star’s nominations:
Beat reporting: Jake Edmiston, a Star business reporter, was nominated for his coverage of food business in 2024.
Investigative: May Warren, a housing reporter at the Star, and Brendan Kennedy and Sheila Wang from the Star’s I-team, got a nod for their investigation exposing the cottage industry fueling the evasion of Toronto’s short-term rental bylaw from January 2024.
Ghada Alsharif, the Star’s immigration and work reporter, is also nominated for her investigation going undercover as an Uber Eats courier in Toronto for six weeks last fall.
Multimedia: Clarrie Feinstein from the business team and Andres Plana from the graphics team are nominated in the multimedia project, The Condo Catch, examined how investors have wreaked havoc on Toronto’s condo market.
Package: Feinstein earned a second nomination, along with reporters Victoria Gibson, Diana Zlomislic, Manuela Vega and data analyst Andrew Bailey for their series, The Big Flip, that looked at the impact of house flipping on Toronto’s neighbourhoods and housing market.
Podcast: Climate reporter Marco Chown Oved along with producers Sean Pattendon and Matthew Hearn are nominated for the podcast, Road Trip, that chronicled a 2,300 km winter trek in an electric vehicle
Scoop: Alsharif was nominated again, this time alongside reporter and editor Kenyon Wallace, for an investigation exposing how government officers were told to skip fraud prevention steps when vetting temporary foreign worker applications.
