Dunn wins newspaper award for Walkerton series
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Dunn wins newspaper award for Walkerton series
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Author of the article: The Sun Times
Publishing date: Apr 20, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 1 minute read •
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Sun Times multimedia journalist Scott Dunn won the 2020 Ontario Newspaper Award for feature writing (under 25,000 circulation) for a series of stories looking at the long-term repercussions of the Walkerton water tragedy.
Dunn wrote four stories, published in May 2020, to mark the 20th anniversary of E. coli contaminating Walkerton’s drinking water supply, killing seven and making thousands sick.
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He told how people continue to be affected, and also how the community has moved on. He spoke with Walkerton Inquiry commissioner Dennis O’Connor about his efforts to get to the bottom of what happened and how to prevent it from happening again. He looked at steps taken in the wake of the tragedy to make dr