HALIFAX, April 16, 2015 /CNW/ - The Atlantic Journalism Awards (www.AJAs.ca) is pleased to announce that CN (TSX:CNR) (NYSE:CNI) has joined with the AJAs and other partners to recognize and honour journalistic excellence in Atlantic Canada. CN will also provide a scholarship to a student enrolled in the journalism program at the Université de Moncton.

CN is a true backbone of the economy, transporting more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network spanning Canada and mid-America. CN - Canadian National Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries -- serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert, B.C., Montreal, Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth, Minn./Superior, Wis., and Jackson, Miss., with connections to all points in North America. 

The Atlantic Journalism Awards is in its 34^th year of honouring journalistic excellence in Atlantic Canada through a juried competition in 28 categories including newspapers, magazines, radio, television and online journalism. The presentation of the AJAs awards will be made during a gala dinner and awards event at the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel on Saturday, May 9, 2015.  For tickets go to www.AJAs.ca and click on tickets.

SOURCE Atlantic Journalism Awards