The National Newspaper Awards (French: Concours canadien de journalisme) are prizes awarded annually for the best work in Canadian newspapers.
They are now given by an independent board of governors and administered from the offices of the Canadian Newspaper Association in Toronto.
There are currently 21 award categories: Breaking News; Investigations; Presentation; Sports; Business; Politics; Long Feature Writing; Short Feature Writing; Columns; Editorial Writing; Arts and Entertainment; Editorial Cartooning; Project of the Year; Photo Essay/Portfolio ; Spot News Photography; Sports Photography; Feature Photography; International Reporting; Explanatory Journalism; and Local Reporting (for newspapers under 30,000 circulation).
The first Journalist of the Year was editorial cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon in 2015.
In 2017, Mark MacKinnon was awarded the prize.