Paul Withers is an award-winning reporter who spent most of his career at CBC Nova Scotia. He broke down doors at province house as a cartoonist. He spent 37 years crisscrossing Nova Scotia sharing his expertise in all things politics, fisheries and oceans. His reporting has pushed governments to change policy and right wrongs, His questions have ended careers and helped to bring people to justice.  He was the first reporter to reveal the extent of a disastrous malfunction in the Halifax wastewater treatment system.

He’s credited by the ocean sciences community with saving the Atlantic Whitefish with his detailed reporting. Even in his final weeks before retirement, he set the bar high-coming to assignment meetings with not one or two story pitches, but five or six. He is more than deserving of a Lifetime Achievement Award.