{"id":7682,"date":"2018-01-18T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/?p=7682"},"modified":"2018-01-18T09:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T14:45:10","slug":"brett-popplewell-wins-allan-slaight-prize-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sjc\/2018\/brett-popplewell-wins-allan-slaight-prize-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Popplewell Wins Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Kelly, Faculty of Public Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Journalism Professor Brett Popplewell has won the inaugural Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism for the most outstanding article published in <em>The Walrus<\/em> magazine in 2017. The prize is worth $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m both humbled and honoured to receive this award,\u201d said Popplewell. \u201cIt\u00a0it is a privilege to work on stories of this depth and to be published alongside so many other journalists whom I admire. I am thankful to The Walrus and to the Slaight Family Foundation for continuing to support long-form journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a synopsis of his story, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/inside-the-controversial-concussion-lab-that-could-save-football\/\">\u201cHead Games\u201d<\/a>,\u00a0 Popplewell wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While a lot has been written about the role of concussions in the National Hockey League and\u00a0the National Football League, no magazine had attempted a major science-of-concussions feature that linked the current thinking about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) to the\u00a0Canadian Football League.\u00a0<em>Head Games<\/em>\u00a0investigates how\u00a0two competing labs racing to find the link\u00a0between concussions and long-term brain damage. The first lab, based in Boston, is largely responsible for the narrative that\u00a0concussions are a main cause of CTE;\u00a0their rivals, working out of Toronto, are skeptical. The CFL is taking the lowered rate of discovery in Toronto as a sign that maybe the Canadian version of the game is safer. In the middle of this cross-border\u00a0scientific divide, are the broken-down\u00a0players, who are duking it out in multi-million-dollar lawsuits\u00a0against the CFL and are unsure about what to make of the things happening inside their head.\u00a0<em>Head Games<\/em>\u00a0chronicles their stories and shows the wreckage of these former athletes through their day-to-day struggles. The story also includes family members who agreed to detail the extent of how these men have changed\u2014how they end up destroying all their memorabilia, how they are undone by paranoia and how they fight the daily urge to get in their cars and drive into a cliff or oncoming traffic. It\u2019s often forgotten that many of the brain-damaged former CFLers are also former US college stars; guys who came north, got their brains mangled in front of dwindling crowds in Winnipeg and Montreal, and then moved home to places like Missouri and Tennessee.\u00a0With on-the-ground reporting from Toronto, Hamilton, Vancouver, Boston and Los Angeles,\u00a0<em>Head Games\u00a0<\/em>juggles nearly a dozen characters and four different\u00a0storylines\u00a0to tell\u00a0the\u00a0story of a sport whose survival hangs in the balance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Popplewell is also a winner of multiple National Magazine Awards. In 2016, he co-wrote <em>The Escapist: How One Man Cheated Death on the World\u2019s Highest Mountains<\/em>\u00a0(HarperCollins Canada).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Kelly, Faculty of Public Affairs Assistant Journalism Professor Brett Popplewell has won the inaugural Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism for the most outstanding article published in The Walrus magazine in 2017. The prize is worth $10,000. \u201cI\u2019m both humbled and honoured to receive this award,\u201d said Popplewell. \u201cIt\u00a0it is a privilege to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,38],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brett Popplewell Wins Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism | School of Journalism and Communication<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"by Karen Kelly, Faculty of Public Affairs Assistant Journalism Professor Brett Popplewell has won the inaugural Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism for the\" \/>\n<meta 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