APTN Corporate Awards & Recognitions
Ongoing Recognitions
Canada’s Top Employers for Young People
Since 2017
This designation distinguishes employers that offer the nation’s best workplaces and programs for young people who are launching their careers.
Canada’s Top 100 Employers
Since 2013
Recognizes employers with exceptional human resources programs and forward-thinking workplace policies.
Manitoba’s Top 30 Employers
Since 2009
Acknowledges employers in the province who pride themselves in offering innovative programs and exceptional workplaces.
Specific Year Awards
Desautels Management Achievement Award
2022
This award celebrates industry leaders who demonstrate a career of great achievement and commitment to the future of responsible business. Awarded to APTN CEO Monika Ille.
Playback Executive of the Year
2022
This distinction recognizes individuals who have made a significant impact in their respective sectors. APTN CEO Monika Ille was named Executive of the Year for keeping the network adaptable while successfully leading it through modernization and its mandate to represent First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples.
The Chamber, Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, Spirit of Winnipeg Award
2018
This award recognizes an outstanding effort and commitment to making Winnipeg a better, more prosperous community through corporate leadership and social responsibility.
One of Canada’s Best Workplaces for Employees Living with Arthritis
2017
Arthritis Experts Consumers recognition to organizations that apply best arthritis strategies and practices in the workplace.
Manitoba Tourism Awards
2014 & 2016
Indigenous Tourism Award for APTN Indigenous Day Live.
Canada’s Outstanding Employer Award from The Learning Partnership
2013-2015
For participating in the Take Our Kids to Work™ Program.
Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures™ – Waterstone Human Capital
2014, 2020, 2021
For enhancing performance and sustaining a competitive advantage.
Signature Award in Self Promotion – Where We Connect Campaign
2014
Showcases the best advertising, marketing and design produced in Manitoba.
Top 7 Intelligent Communities of the Year by the Intelligent Community Forum
2014
APTN mentioned as a contributing factor to the City of Winnipeg being shortlisted.
APTN News Awards & Recognitions
Amnesty International Media Awards
2020
Long-Form Video
APTN Investigates – journalist Trina Roache for her investigation titled Law of the Land
2019
Human Rights Reporting Video
APTN Investigates – journalist Holly Moore for The Cure Was Worse
2012
Online Award
APTN Investigates – executive producer Paul Barnsley and senior researcher/writer Kathleen Martens for Residential School Lawyers
2010
Audio/Video Report Award
APTN Investigates – reporter Tina House for Missing Women
Atlantic Journalism Awards
2024
Breaking News/Spot News: Television – Bronze
Mi’kmaw Lobster Theft (Angel Moore – Halifax, N.S.)
Enterprise Reporting – Silver
NCNS Identity Fraud (Angel Moore – Halifax, N.S.)
2023
Breaking News/Spot News: Television – Gold
Mi’kmaw Fishery (Angel Moore, Trina Roache, Paul Poirier – Halifax, N.S.)
2019
Video Journalist – Gold
Trina Roache
Feature Television – Gold
History Decolonized (Trina Roache)
Enterprise Reporting – Silver
Eastern Metis (Justin Brake)
Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada Media Awards
2017
English Electronic
APTN/CBC – Rebecca Gibson, Kyle Irving, Lisa Meeches, Jacquie Black for Taken – Cherisse Houle
2016
English Electronic
APTN National News – Cullen Crozier for Forgotten Survivors
Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) Awards
2021
Freedom of Information Journalism category
APTN Investigates – Surviving Day Schools (Brittany Guyot, Kathleen Martens)
2020
Broadcast News category
APTN Investigates – Writing Home / Carving Home (Holly Moore, Brittany Guyot)
2019
Open Broadcast Feature category
APTN Investigates – Broken Circle (Cullen Crozier, Brittany Guyot, Holly Moore)
2018
Open Broadcast News category
APTN National News – Unist’ot’en (Laurie Hamelin, Kathleen Martens)
2017
Charles Bury Award
CAJ’s highest recognition award recognizes Karyn Pugliese, APTN executive director of news and current affairs, APTN National News, and APTN Investigates as significant contributors to Canadian journalism
Daily Excellence category
APTN National News – Three First Nations girls died in Ontario group homes in last 6 months (Kenneth Jackson)
Journalists for Human Rights/CAJ Emerging Indigenous Journalist Award
APTN National News for Doctors Tell Thunder Bay Woman Hit by Trailer Hitch That She Has Just Weeks to Live (Willow Fiddler)
Journalists for Human Rights/CAJ Award for Human Rights Reporting
APTN Investigates for Against Their Will (Cullen Crozier)
Open Broadcast News category
APTN Investigates – Truth? Or reconciliation? (Kathleen Martens, Paul Barnsley, Holly Moore)
2015
Communications Workers of America Canada Award/CAJ Award for Labour Reporting
APTN Investigates – Hurting for Work (Melissa Ridgen)
Journalists for Human Rights/CAJ Award for Human Rights Reporting
APTN National News – A Soldier Scorned (Dennis Ward, Murray Oliver)
2014
Journalists for Human Rights/CAJ Award for Human Rights Reporting
APTN National News – Outside the Circle (Trina Roache)
Canadian Hillman Prize
2023
Honourable Mention – APTN Investigates/Global News – Andrew Russell, Carolyn Jarvis, Michael Wrobel, and Kenneth Jackson for Profiting Off Kids
2021
Honourable Mention – APTN Investigates – Kenneth Jackson and Cullen Crozier for The Death Report
2017
Honourable Mention – APTN Investigates – Jorge Barrera, Mark Blackburn and Francine Compton for Quest for Innocence
Canadian Screen Awards (CSA)
2024
Best News or Information Series
APTN Investigates
Best Photography, News or Information
APTN Investigates, “Reawakening the Mountains” (Rob Smith)
2023
Best News or Information Program
APTN Investigates, “In Plain Sight” (Kenneth Jackson and Cullen Crozier)
2022
Best National Reporter
Tina House, APTN National News
Best News or Information Series
APTN Investigates
Best News or Information Segment
APTN Investigates, “The Death Report” (Kenneth Jackson and Cullen Crozier)
2021
Best News or Information Segment
APTN Investigates, “Writing Home” (Holly Moore and Brittany Guyot)
2018
Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism
Karyn Pugliese, APTN’s former executive director of news and current affairs, for her exceptional contribution to Canadian television journalism
Best News or Information Segment
APTN Investigates, “Against Their Will” (Cullen Crozier, Holly Moore and Paul Barnsley)
The Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom (CCWPF) Annual Press Freedom Awards
2020
Awarded to APTN journalist and producer Kenneth Jackson
2018
The Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom recognizes The Independent and Justin Brake’s commitment to telling the story of the development of the controversial Labrador-based hydroelectric project Muskrat Falls
J-Source Awards
2012
J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year Award
APTN National News – web journalist Jorge Barrera for his multi-platform reporting on the Idle No More movement
Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) Awards
2016
JHR Lifetime Achievement Human Rights Reporting Award
APTN Investigates — executive producer Paul Barnsley
Michener Awards
2020
Michener Award
APTN News and APTN Investigates, “Death by Neglect” (Kenneth Jackson and Cullen Crozier)
Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA), formerly known as Native American Journalist Association (NAJA), Awards
2024
Multimedia – Best Multimedia – First Place
APTN Investigates – Brittany Guyot for Inside Series: 2180 Days
2023
Elias Boudinot Free Press Award
APTN News
Print / Online – Best Feature Story – First Place
APTN News – Danielle Paradis for
‘It was not about religion’: Littlechild defends gifting headdress to Pope Francis
TV – Best Feature Story – Second Place
APTN National News – Leanne Sanders for Missing in Well
TV – Best News Story – Third Place
APTN National News – Sav Jonsa for Métis citizenship cards not accepted as I.D. at Manitoba Liquor Marts, APTN finds
TV – Best Newcast – Third Place
APTN National News – Cheryl McKenzie, Dennis Ward, Darrell Stranger, Leanne Sanders, Savannah Kelly
2022
Medill Milestone Achievement Award
APTN National News – Cheryl McKenzie
Multimedia – Best Multimedia – First Place
APTN Investigates – Cullen Crozier and Kenneth Jackson for In Plain Sight
Print / Online – Best Feature Story – Second Place
APTN News – Brett Forester for Death By a Thousand Cuts
TV – Best News Story – First Place
APTN National News – Angel Moore for Fishers plan to keep fishing despite DFO harassment
TV – Best News Story – Third Place
APTN National News – Priscilla Wolf for Muskowekwan Nation searches residential-school
TV – Best Newscast – First Place
APTN National News – Cheryl McKenzie, Holly Moore, Ken Welsh, Derek Christianson
2021
Multimedia – Best Multimedia – Honorable Mention
APTN Investigates – Brittany Guyot and Holly Moore for Writing Home / Carving Home
Print / Online – Best News Story – Honorable Mention
APTN National News – Brittany Hobson for Hundreds of Indigenous children suspected of dying connected to care in Manitoba over decade
Richard LaCourse Award for Investigative Journalism
APTN Investigates
TV – Best Feature Story – Second Place
APTN National News – Brittany Hobson
A miracle in the making: birth of Ojibwe pony in Manitoba first in decades
TV – Best Feature Story – Honorable Mention
APTN National News – Priscilla Wolf for Saskatchewan family survives COVID-19 by returning to the trap line
TV – Best News Story – First Place
APTN National News – Priscilla Wolf for Minneapolis police officer charged in death of George Floyd was involved in shooting of Ojibwe man in 2006
TV – Best News Story – Second Place
APTN National News – Brittany Hobson for Rise of Inuit living in Winnipeg shows the need for more Inuit-specific resources
TV – Best Newscast – First Place
APTN National News – Ken Welsh, Derek Christensen, Francine Compton, Melissa Ridgen, Dennis Ward and Cheryl McKenzie
TV – Excellence in Beat Reporting – First Place
APTN InFocus – Melissa Ridgen and Beverly Andrews
2020
Online – Best Feature Story – Honorable Mention
APTN National News – Brittany Hobson for Drag family taking Winnipeg scene by storm
Online – Best News Story – First Place
APTN National News – Kenneth Jackson for Death as Expected: Inside a child welfare system where 102 Indigenous kids died over 5 years
Online – Best News Story – Second Place
APTN National News – Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs for Nunavut at 20: Pangnirtung and the true cost of isolation
Print / Online – Best Feature Photo – Second Place
APTN News – Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs for Julia and Roy Cockney of Tuktoyaktuk
Print / Online – Best Environmental Coverage – First Place
APTN National News – Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs for Youth Perspectives on Climate Change
Print / Online – Best Multimedia – Third Place
APTN National News – Tom Fennario for
Two years after his death in jail, a family in Nunavik is still waiting for answers
Radio / Podcast – General Excellence – First Place
APTN News
Richard LaCourse Award for Investigative Journalism
APTN Investigates
TV – Best Multimedia – First Place
APTN Investigates – Cullen Crozier for Broken Circle
TV – Best News Story – First Place
APTN National News – Priscilla Wolf for Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation is in a state of emergency after a rash of suicides
TV – Best News Story – Second Place
APTN National News – Brittany Hobson for Peace camp set up in Hollow Water First Nation to oppose sand mine project
2019
Elias Boudinot Free Press Award
APTN National News – Karyn Pugliese and Justin Brake
Print / Online – Best Feature Photo – Third Place
APTN National News – Charlotte Morritt-Jacobs for Mummilaaq Qaqqaq of Baker Lake
TV – Best Coverage of Native America – Third Place
APTN National News – Tom Fennario for Necessary Force
TV – Best Feature Story – Second Place
APTN Investigates – Trina Roache for History Decolonized
TV – General Excellence – Second Place
APTN Investigates
PEN Canada Awards
2018
Ken Filkow Prize
APTN National News – reporter Justin Brake, who demonstrated courage and integrity in the interest of freedom of expression in Canada
RTDNA Canada Awards
2023
Digital – Overall Excellence in Digital
APTN Investigates – Kenneth Jackson and Cullen Crozier for My Name is Bill Isadore Deafy: This is the Story of a Teenage Boy Who Doesn’t Legally Exist
2021
President’s Award
APTN National News – Cheryl McKenzie
Investigative Award, Central Region
Global Toronto, Institute for Investigative Journalism and APTN News – Former Neskantaga Contractor Accused of Cutting Corners in Other First Nations
World Indigenous Journalism Awards
2014
Best Videography
APTN National News – studio crew/camera person Bill Scott for Sundance
2012
WIJ Honour
APTN National News – video journalist Rob Smith for Journey Home
WIJ Special Recognition
APTN National News – Jorge Barrera, Kenneth Jackson, Paul Barnsley and Mark Blackburn for Water Exploitation – Bruce Carson
APTN Programming Awards & Recognitions
Canadian Screen Awards
2024
Best Achievement in Casting, Fiction
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Lisa Parasyn and Carmen Kotyk
Best Achievement in Hair
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Pina Robinson
Best Achievement in Make-Up
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Nina McArthur, Megan Stark and Kelly Harmon
Best Costume Design
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Charity Gadica
Best Direction, Drama Series
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Best Drama Series
APTN/Crave – Little Bird
Best Ensemble Performance, Drama
APTN/Crave – Little Bird
Best Lead Performer, Drama Series
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Darla Contois
Best Photography, Drama
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Claudine Sauvé
Best Picture Editing, Drama
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Maxime Lahaie-Denis
Best Production Design or Art Direction, Fiction
APTN/Crave – Little Bird
Best Sound, Fiction
APTN/Crave – Little Bird
Best Supporting Performer, Drama
APTN/Crave – Little Bird for Braeden Clarke
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program
APTN/Crave – Coming Home
2022
Best Direction, Factual
APTN – Spirit Talker for Stephanie Clattenburg
2020
Best Direction, Factual
APTN – Future History for Jennifer Podemski
The Montreal First Peoples’ Festival Awards
2023
Air-Canada – Matera Award – First Prize
Bones of Crows
APTN Recognition Award
Bones of Crows
Leo Awards
2024
Best Casting, Dramatic Series
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Judy JK Lee
Best Costume Design, Dramatic Series
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Carmen Thompson and Jessica Kalan
Best Direction, Documentary Series
APTN – Lands Enchanted for Jules Koostachin
Best Direction, Dramatic Series
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Marie Clements
Best Documentary Series
APTN – Yukon Harvest for Jim Shockey, Todd Forsbloom, Erik Virtanen – Producers
Best Host(s), Documentary Series
APTN – Moosemeat & Marmalade for Art Napoleon, Dan Hayes
Best Musical Score, Documentary Series
APTN – Todd Forsbloom for Yukon Harvest
2023
Best Casting, Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Judy Lee
Best Cinematography, Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Vince Arvidson
Best Costume Design, Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Carmen Thompson, Jessica Kalan
Best Direction, Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Marie Clements
Best Lead Performance Female, Motion Picture
Bones of Crows for Grace Dove
Best Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Marie Clements, Trish Dolman, Christine Haebler, Sam Grana, Aaron Gilbert, Steven Thibault, Noah Segal – Producers
Best Musical Score, Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Jesse Zubot, Wayne Lavallee
Best Production Design, Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for James Philpott, Stephanie Ajmeria
Best Screenwriting, Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Marie Clements
Best Sound, Motion Picture
APTN/CBC – Bones of Crows for Gregor Phillips, Craig Berkey, Ryan Thompson, Miguel Nunes, Andrea Velarde Mosquera, Alex Macia, Devon Quelch, Matias Gibbs
2022
Best Cinematography, Documentary Series
APTN – Moosemeat & Marmalade for Chris Johnson and Dean Azim
Best Lead Performance Male, Dramatic Series
APTN – Tribal for Brian Markinson
Best Performance Female, Web Series
APTN – Querencia for Kaitlyn Yott
Yorkton Film Festival
2024
Documentary Series
The Other Side
2023
Community Television Productions
National Day for Truth & Reconciliation
Documentary Series
Going Native
2022
Series
Going Native