GuelphToday.com journalist Rob O'Flanagan has been nominated for an Ontario Newspaper Award.
O'Flanagan's two-part series on population growth and residential development encroaching on urban and rural green spaces is nominated in the Green Environment Writing category of the ONAs, an annual awards event that recognizes outstanding work in Ontario's daily newspaper industry.
The nominated story appeared in the Guelph Mercury.
"In my research for the feature, I got to do things that I like to do, like tromp around in the woods and trails in the Guelph area," said O'Flanagan. "And I got to go up in an open-air gyroplane for a bird's eye perspective on the erosion of green spaces by urban development."
The journalist added that his editors gave him free-reign to pursue the project over several days.
O'Flanagan has won several ONA awards in the past during his distinguished journalism career, including for feature writing, and as a columnist.
Winners are announced at a gala event in Hamilton next month.
