Taproot’s 2025 municipal election project has earned two new award nominations, from the Canadian Journalism Foundation and the National Media Awards Foundation.
We previously shared that the Taproot Survey was a finalist for a National Newspaper Award in the Innovation in Journalism category. While we did not win that one, we remain endlessly proud to have been a finalist. Congratulations to the winners, Cody Gault and Lucas Timmons of the Toronto Star, for their automated natural language search engine that provided real-time riding data for all 343 ridings in the 2025 federal election, and to our fellow runners-up at Canada’s National Observer for Civic Searchlight, a tool that transcribes municipal council meetings.
Now, we’re thrilled to share that our election project is a finalist for the Dr. Eric Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Canadian Journalism Foundation, and for the Innovation in Digital Storytelling category at the Digital Publishing Awards from the National Media Awards Foundation.
CJF Dr. Eric Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism
The CJF award honours “news organizations that embody exemplary journalism and have a profound positive impact on the communities they serve.” The Taproot Survey was highlighted as a way to “focus on the issues that mattered most to voters instead of the horse race,” along with our accompanying election coverage.
We’re in very good company on the list of finalists. Also up for the award in the small media category are The Green Line in Toronto for a series on the effects of LRT construction on housing; the Investigative Journalism Foundation in collaboration with The Narwhal for a series on gas companies avoiding regulation in B.C.; The Sprawl for coverage of Calgary’s municipal election; and The Trillium’s work to expose patronage in the deployment of a skills development fund in Ontario.
The finalists in the large media category are APTN, The Canadian Press, CBC News, Le Devoir, and CTV News. The winners will be announced on June 10 in Toronto.
Digital Publishing Awards
The Innovation in Digital Storytelling category of the Digital Publishing Awards honours “an innovative digital creation, project or concept … to enhance the storytelling, the audience engagement and/or experience.” Our election site, including the Taproot Survey, was nominated for this award.
Other finalists include FAIT QUE, a “living journalism lab” for people aged 18 to 35; The Feathertale Review for Issue #29, which it describes as “the world’s first fully audible issue of an award-winning magazine”; and The Green Line for How to Toronto: Our No-BS Guide to City Living.
The winners will be announced on June 5 in Toronto.
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We don’t do this work for awards, but it is welcome validation for the quality of what the Taproot team produced, and a great indication that those who have helped us along the way have made a wise investment.
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