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Derfel’s nomination in the investigations category is among 14 for Postmedia’s journalists for the awards recognizing excellence in daily newspaper work in Canada.

Zane Schwartz was nominated in the prestigious Project of the Year category for Follow The Money, an 18-month-long investigative project he worked on as the recipient of Postmedia’s 2017 Michelle Lang Fellowship in Journalism. Schwartz gathered 5 million records from governments across the country to create the first searchable database of federal, provincial and territorial political donations.

The Saskatoon StarPhoenix received three nominations, with Kevin Mitchell recognized for his coverage of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash and its aftermath and Kayle Neis nominated in the news photo category for a photo of a Broncos memorial. StarPhoenix editor-in-chief Heather Persson was also nominated for editorial writing.