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It was a near sweep of the 2018 Jack Webster Awards for more than a dozen Vancouver Sun/The Province reporters and photographers up for prizes on Monday night, as the two Postmedia newspapers won three high honours at the annual gala.

The awards celebrated the best in B.C. journalism across all platforms in 12 categories at a ceremony at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Vancouver.

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Postmedia journalists were tops in both print/text-based online categories — Feature/Enterprise and Breaking News — and in the Business Reporting category.

Investigative reporter Sam Cooper won the Webby for Excellence in Feature/Enterprise print/text-based online category for his series of articles, Dirty Money in B.C.: Casinos, Drugs, Real Estate.

Vancouver Sun political columnist Rob Shaw won the Excellence in Business, Industry and Economics Reporting category for his article on the economics of public auto insurance.

Exhaustive coverage of the 2017 B.C. wildfires earned a Postmedia team of news reporters and photographers Best Breaking News Reporting in the print/text-based online category. They are Scott Brown, Cheryl Chan, Lori Culbert, Nick Eagland, Gordon Hoekstra, Stephanie Ip, Patrick Johnston, Rich Lam, Glenda Luymes, Harrison Mooney, Jason Payne and Jennifer Saltman.

And longtime Postmedia reporter Larry Pynn, recently retired, was a runner-up in the category of Excellence in Science, Technology and Environment Reporting for his series, Prostate Cancer: 1 in 7. It was based on Pynn’s own diagnosis.

That prize went to a CBC Radio One team, for 2050: Degrees of Change.

Global B.C. News won in the two television categories, Feature/Enterprise and Breaking News, and CBC Radio One took both prizes for those radio categories.