Sean Fine is a Canadian journalist. Fine has covered the justice beat at the ''
Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it f ...
'' for the past decade.
Career
In May 2015, Fine won the
National Newspaper Award for his writing on politics.
In May 2018, Fine won the "beat reporting" award for "an examination of Canada's judicial system after time limits on criminal proceedings were imposed by the
Supreme Court."
Fine was part of the team of four writers who won in May 2020 the
John Wesley Dafoe Award "for breaking the news that the
Prime Minister’s Office had pressured the
justice minister
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...
to abandon prosecution of
SNC-Lavalin
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is a Canadian company based in Montreal that provides engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services to various industries, including mining and metallurgy, oil and gas, environment and water, infrastructure, a ...
, and a series of follow-up reports as the ensuing scandal grew."
References
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Canadian newspaper journalists
Canadian legal writers