Four members of CWA Canada have earned their newspaper two nominations for Jack Webster Awards, which honour journalistic excellence in British Columbia.

Louise Dickson, Lindsay Kines and Rob Shaw, reporters at the Victoria Times Colonist, are finalists in the legal journalism category for the series Access Denied, about how arbitrary decisions by court staff and high fees deny the public access to court material it has a right to see.

Meet the HST, a series by reporter Andrew Duffy, earned him the nod in the business, industry and economics category.

Editor in chief Lucinda Chodan says it is a “great honour to be nominated for a Webster award,” named for the legendary journalist. “The Access Denied series resulted in sweeping changes in British Columbia, and Andrew Duffy was the first journalist in B.C. to recognize how controversial the HST would be here.”

The Access Denied series earlier won the 2010 Justicia Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism, sponsored by the Canadian Bar Association and the Department of Justice.

Winners of the 2010 Webster Awards will be announced at the 24th annual awards dinner on Nov. 1 in Vancouver.