Robert Stewart Essay Competition winners announced
March 15, 2006 — The Montreal Press Club and
its participating sponsors have announced the winners of the
2006 edition of The Robert Stewart Essay Competition
for students in journalism, communications or public relations
at a Canadian university or community college. The subject
of this year's competition was "Responsibility".
The first prize of $2,000.00 was won by Terry Woo
- a second year journalism student at Ryerson University
in Toronto;
The second prize of $1,500.00 was won by Chantel Hamilton
- a third year student of Applied Communications in Professional
Writing at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton ;
The third prize of $1,000.00 was won by Hubert Lapointe
- a third year student in Information et Communications at
Université Laval in Quebec City.
The competition is intended to encourage the art of essay
writing among a rising generation of communicators and to
honour the memory of Robert Stewart - a long-time member and
officer of the Montreal Press Club who died in 2003. Stewart
was a professional journalist, author and essayist whose work
gained him widespread respect both inside and outside the
journalistic community. Some of his best writing appeared
in the Royal Bank Letter - a popular publication featuring
brilliantly erudite essays which reached some one million
readers every month in Canada and overseas.
The Robert Stewart Essay Competition is sponsored by RBC
Financial Group, the Railway Association of Canada, the Montreal
Gazette and NATIONAL public relations.
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