Grace Kennedy
Awards
BCYCNA - New Journalist of the Year
2019
An award given to a journalist with less than two years experience for their work in digital storytelling, social media engagement and overall reporting quality.
BCYCNA Feature Series Award
2019 - Feature Series - Bronze
Bronze award for "Finding Success," a feature series on Indigenous education in the Delta School District for the North Delta Reporter.
BCYCNA Feature Series Award
2018 - Feature Series - Silver
Silver award for "Making the Merge" a feature series in the North Delta Reporter on amateur sports associations merging to increase competitiveness from the B.C. and Yukon Community Newspaper Awards (also known as the Ma Murray awards).
BCYCNA Feature Series Award
2018 - Feature Series - Bronze
Bronze award for "Life After the RCMP," a feature series in the Cloverdale Reporter on Alice Fox, a former RCMP member who is suffering from PTSD after facing alleged harassment from her supervisor.
Atlantic Journalism Awards
2016 - Province of Nova Scotia Scholarship
This award is given to a student for an article that has significance and importance to Nova Scotia. My article was on white nose syndrome in Nova Scotia's bats, a fungus that has nearly wiped out three local species.