The Financial Post won three awards at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Canada’s Best in Business competition at a ceremony held Wednesday evening in Toronto.
Reporter Claire Brownell won in the short features category for her story “The end of meat,” which profiled the nascent movement of food companies developing meat-like products grown from cells in a lab.
Western business columnist Claudia Cattaneo won the award for best beat reporting for her frequent and in-depth coverage of the energy sector, which in 2016 included a feature interview with the reclusive Arthur Irving, who runs the multi-billion dollar Irving Group of companies alongside his brother J.K.
 and Reporter Claire Brownell</p>
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<p>Lastly, feature writer Peter Kuitenbrower and photographer Peter J. Thompson won in the multimedia category for their work documenting the precarious state of the <a href=)
“These awards are evidence of the great range of creative, enterprising work that distinguishes the Financial Post from the competition, with innovative feature writing, exclusive interviews, stellar beat work and captivating multimedia packages,” National Post editor-in-chief Anne Marie Owens said.
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<p>The winners were selected from 27 total nominees across nine categories. Other winners included writers from Bloomberg News, Canadian Business and MoneySense magazines and the Globe and Mail.</p>
<p>The ceremony marked the third annual awards for SABEW in Canada: The U.S.-based association of business journalists has been handing out similar awards south of the border for more than two decades.</p>
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