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Friesen: To those of use have been around a while ... it can all be a little bit daunting. I know that makes me sound like an old fart but so be it.

Friesen:
Stories are still what bind us, what inform us, and what entertain us ... we can't lose sight of the stories

Bob Lewis is the first award presenter (and new CJF chair): Excellence in journalism award in small or local media category

But first we have an honourable mention, for an organization that continues to work independently and with flair online and beyond ... I refer to the Tyee, please join me in saluting David Beers

Rosner: Greetings from the city with the new, and yet unnamed, NHL franchise

Rosner says that it's really humbling to be in this room and that he counts himself lucky to be able to come to work everyday.

His newsroom is all about finding the real story behind press release. He adds that he is fortunate to work in network that understands local and regional reporting is the cornerpost for a successful national broadcast

Clark: The competition for this award, was, as always, extremely furious. Winner came very close to winning last year, CJF suggested come back with stronger application this year. "And," says Clark, "she did."

Catherine Hanson to present Tom Hanson photojournalism award: "Tom had a unique ability to capture whatever he was photographing," she says. "When he left us suddenly in 2009," she adds, family friends wanted to find "a special way to honour his memory and spirit."

2011 winners of Canadian Journalism Fellowships. Next year will be 50th year of fellowships.

Winners: Elizabeth Bowie, Robert Cribb, Shawn Micallef, Luis Horacio Najera, Lee Pitts, Ato Dadzie

To video of Patrick Brown

He continues:
It's a great honour and I was very surprised when I was phoned to be told about it ... I told the person who called that it was a bit early for, what is called in French, a career crowing award because I don't feel I'm finished yet

When it comes to foreign reporting, he adds, "we are supported by an army" including local, one the ground "fixers"

He adds: "Management and editors back here in Toronto are very concerned to look after us, as employees and known faces, but these people are important too and we need to remember when things happen not to forget them."

Lloyd Robertson to present honorary tribute to Robert MacNeil

MacNeil:
"I dislike the blare ... I dislike being shouted at by reporters even when they may be standing in a quiet newsroom."

MacNeil: I share the same Canadian resistance to facile hero making

MacNeil:
"I thank the Canadian spirit that shaped me when I was young ... today when looking for my country, I find it in myself." He adds: I thank the Canadian Journalism Foundation for making me think about these things.

We take a moment now for the in memoriam video, journalists who have died in the past year

And the winner is: the Toronto Star

He adds: it's the reporters who are at the sharp end of the stick. It's the journalists, he says, who go out there and fight the war and "the bloggers come out there to pick the pockets of the dead. It's the reporters that do the real journalism."

And that closes tonight's ceremony! Thanks for joining us.