It was another strong year for the Pique Newsmagazine team at the 2022 BC and Yukon Community NewsMedia Association Awards, held in Richmond at the River Rock Casino Resort on May 14—the first in-person ceremony since 2019.
Nominated for nine awards—the most of any other publication—Pique took home five golds, a silver, and three bronze.
Pique took gold in the General Excellence category for its circulation class, narrowly beating out sister paper The Squamish Chief by just 0.2 points on the judges’ scorecards. Pique writer Alyssa Noel also won the Neville Shanks Memorial Award for Historical Writing, for her in-depth epic, “The Legend of Frank Gott”; while Brandon Barrett earned the Environmental Initiative Award for his feature, “Green Lake is a hub of biodiversity, so why aren’t we doing more to protect it?"
Pique also took home the Reader Engagement Award for its 2021 Best of Whistler feature, while Whistler Magazine won the Special Publications Award for its circulation class.
Braden Dupuis and Barrett, meanwhile, won silver in the Business Writing category for their series on Whistler’s labour shortage. Dupuis and former editor Clare Ogilvie also won bronze for Pique’s series on last year’s ransomware attack at municipal hall, and subsequent lawsuit by the Resort Municipality of Whistler. Megan Lalonde earned a bronze in the Outdoor Recreation Writing category for her feature on stand-up paddleboarding, “What’s SUP?” while Lalonde and Noel earned another bronze in the Environmental Writing category for their feature on glacial monitoring, “Generations on the Glaciers.”
