A photo by Mike Carroccetto, a freelance photographer for the Ottawa Citizen, was inadvertently nominated for the wrong category and will no longer be eligible, the NNA board of governors announced Wednesday.
The photo of a woman cradling a cat who woke her up in time to flee a burning building was supposed to be entered in the feature photography category.
It was the Ottawa Citizen that notified the board of governors about the nomination mistake and a special committee came to a unanimous decision to select a new nominee.
The new nominee is Ottawa Citizen freelancer Ashley Fraser, who snapped a shot of a protester in a Santa Claus costume who was arrested following a protest outside the prime minister's residence in Ottawa.
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