A managing editor and a business correspondent have won CAUT’s 12th annual Excellence in Education Journalism awards.

Theresa Tedesco, chief business correspondent at the National Post, won in the professional reporting category for a March 13, 2012 article, “The uneasy ties between Canada’s universities and wealthy business magnates.” Her well-researched and thoroughly written story details backlash from controversial donor deals that intersect areas of institutional autonomy. Tedesco chronicled many of the tensions around the issue and reasons for scrutiny from academic staff, including concerns about academic freedom and third party influence on academic affairs.

A story on the history and implications of the Quebec student movement earned McGill Tribune managing editor Carolina Millán-Ronchetti the student journalism award. Her analysis, “The march of history: Students on the move,” published Dec. 5, 2012, tracks themes of the movement and assesses its impact in the province.

Tedesco and Millán-Ronchetti were each recognized for their in-depth and thoughtful media cover­age of post-secondary issues with a prize of $1,000.The submissions were judged by a three-person jury comprised of University of British Columbia journalism professor Candis Callison, University of King’s College online journalism professor Tim Currie, and Paul Benedetti, co-ordinator of the journalism program at Western University.

CAUT presented the journalism awards at its biannual council meeting in Ottawa on April 27, 2013.