A.O. Tate Memorial Award
2025 winner Shaun Fitl with donors Cliff Lee and Angelyn Francis
2024 winner Daniyah Yaqoob with presenter Cliff Lee.
2023 Winner Jaden Whitelaw with presenter Cliff Lee.
2022 winner Aneesa Bhanji.
Presenter Paul Morse with 2017 winner Josh Cameron.
2016 winner Katherine Swyers with Anne McNeilly.
2015 winner Justin Chandler with presenter Paul Morse.
About the award
For excellence in reporting in first year.
A.O. (Alf) Tate was a Toronto Star reporter, served in the Royal Canadian Navy as a photographer, and was a former president of the Toronto chapter of what is now SONG. Tate also loved flight, and was the first reporter to dispatch a story from the air. In September 1955, he was covering a story on board a U.S. Navy plane which, while investigating a hurricane, was lost over the Caribbean Sea.
Past Winners
| 2025 | Shaun Fitl |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Daniyah Yaqoob |
| 2023 | Jaden Whitelaw |
| 2022 | Aneesa Bhanji |
| 2021 | Shaki Sutharsan |
| 2020 | Edward Djan |
| 2019 | Anastasiya Romanska |
| 2018 | Sherina Harris |
| 2017 | Josh Cameron |
| 2016 | Katherine Swyers |
| 2015 | Justin Chandler |
| 2014 | Karen McCall |
| 2013 | Nikolas Theodorakidis |