Paul Webster, 2013 Magazine Award Winner
Paul Webster is a Toronto-based freelance writer who has reported on themes in business, science, medicine and politics since 1992. He has won four National Magazine Awards and been nominated 11 times. He won the 2013 Stephen Hanson Award from the Canadian Bar Association for excellence in legal writing, the 2010 Western Magazine Awards Public Policy Award, and a Tier One Journalism Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in 2008. As a freelance writer in Russia, he wrote primarily for Canadian Business, Maclean's, The National Post, The Walrus as well a number of other magazines and journals.
His winning article, titled Adverse Reactions, was published in Vancouver Magazine in April 2013. This is an investigative feature probing pharmaceutical industry pressure on the government of British Columbia. Adverse Reactions raises the question of whether the BC Liberals succumbed to industry pressure to curb the research program.
Paul has published hundreds of articles on intersecting themes in medicine, science, law, politics and business. His films and television programs have been broadcast on the Arte, BBC, CBC, Discovery, Slice, SWR, and Vision networks.
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Vancouver Magazine winning article here
