This award is given for a single photo or package of up to three related photos produced under pressure or deadline.

The nominees for Spot News Photography (over 25,000 circulation) are Mathew McCarthy, The Waterloo Region Record, Jason Kryk, The Windsor Star, and Robert Wilson, The Waterloo Region Record

Firefighters rescued two people from the roof of a burning building. Sue Kelly was very happy when firefighter Shannon Nicholson and Constable John Gilbert rescued her cat, Matilda (Robert Wilson/Waterloo Region Record)
Firefighters rescued two people from the roof of a burning building. Sue Kelly was very happy when firefighter Shannon Nicholson and Constable John Gilbert rescued her cat, Matilda (Robert Wilson/Waterloo Region Record)
A fire destroyed several buildings on a farm on Lobsinger Road in Waterloo (Mathew McCarthy, Waterloo Region Record)
A fire destroyed several buildings on a farm on Lobsinger Road in Waterloo (Mathew McCarthy, Waterloo Region Record)
A youth leads a group of children from the Lev Tahor, a fundamentalist Jewish group, to their current home in Chatham, Ontario on November 28, 2013 (JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)
A youth leads a group of children from the Lev Tahor, a fundamentalist Jewish group, to their current home in Chatham, Ontario on November 28, 2013 (JASON KRYK/The Windsor Star)

 

SPOT NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY (over 25,000 circulation)