Edmonton Journal

Dynamic, Innovative, Exceptional – these are the three words that best describe the essence of the Edmonton Journal. We are a team committed to our readers, advertisers, and our community. We strive to provide our readers with innovative and compelling visuals, our advertisers with dynamic advertising content and our community with a strengthened commitment to Edmonton’s enduring sense of pride!

The Edmonton Journal focuses on the latest news shaping our world, our country and our city. Hard-hitting dynamic award-winning reporting blended with innovative design, riveting images, and diverse local content cement the Edmonton Journal as a leader in the community – the most-respected source for news and information in Edmonton.

For over 100 years, the Edmonton Journal newspaper has stood as the face of Edmonton. Readers have looked to us not only as their primary provider for news, but have relied on us as the best source for information. The Edmonton Journal focuses on the latest news shaping our world, our country and our city. Hard-hitting dynamic award-winning reporting blended with innovative design, riveting images, and diverse local content cement the Edmonton Journal as a leader in the community – the most-respected source for news and information in Edmonton.

Our online edition, www.edmontonjournal.com, is Northern Alberta’s first choice for the most up-to-date local, provincial and national news as it breaks throughout the day. As a leader in digital media, the Edmonton Journal brings breaking news and dynamic advertisements as events unfold, 24 hours a day.  In addition to providing the latest in breaking news, edmontonjournal.com offers extras that newsprint can’t deliver, such as video, photo galleries, blogs, interactive polls, opportunities to vent (Sound Off! feature) and hot links to other sources of useful information.

Highlights and Successes:

Edmonton Journal writer Ed Struzik won the prestigious Michener-Deacon Fellowship. The $35,000 award provides him with the resources to spend 4 months examining the issue of arctic sovereignty and security as it relates to culture and the environment. The award is given out of the Governor General once a year. He also won the Canadian Science Writers' Association award for a feature he wrote on the resurgence of cougars in Alberta.

Edmonton Journal arts writer Elizabeth Withy has been recognized with an honourable mention for excellence in Arts and Entertainment coverage at the National Newspaper Awards. Withey was honoured for three articles -- a May 25, 2008, feature on Edmonton Symphony Orchestra musical director Bill Eddins's stay in Lyon, France, conducting George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess; a June 1, 2008, profile of Edmonton Opera's artistic director Brian Deedrick, who has spent the past eight summers in Berlin, working as a city tour guide; and an Oct. 5 interview with novelist Miriam Toews about her novel, The Flying Troutmans, and other literary work. The articles on Eddins and Deedrick were written after Withey spent time with them in Europe.