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Ottawa paper’s series on whistleblowers nominated for award

An Ottawa Citizen series focused on mental stress affecting whistleblowers has been nominated for the first-ever Mindset Award for Workplace Mental Health Reporting.

Matthew Pearson of the Citizen writes, “Published in November, the stories by reporter Don Butler highlighted the emotional, financial and often career-ending costs most people pay when they make the fateful decision to speak out.

“As Butler wrote: ‘The consequences can be dire and long-lasting. Loss of job and profession is virtually a given. So is retaliation, particularly for those who expose systemic wrongdoing.’

“The series included profiles of two former Department of Foreign Affairs workers who both lost their jobs and faced years of mental anguish and isolation after blowing the whistle on lax or corrupt practices and massive overspending on diplomatic facilities abroad.

“‘As time went on, it became a very lonely, hard journey. Life became very small,’ whistleblower Joanna Gualtieri told Butler. ‘I was a broken person.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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