RTDNA Canada handed out its East Region RTDNA Awards of Excellence on Saturday night in Halifax, recognizing the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital.
Here’s the complete list of winners:
Digital
Best Podcast
- CBC New Brunswick – The Hook, An Original Podcast Series
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award
- CBC North Iqaluit – Northmart in Iqaluit Destroyed by Fire
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award
- CBC Indigenous – Continuing Coverage of the Fight for a Papal Apology for Residential School Survivors
Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award
- CBC Nova Scotia – Emma Smith & Dave Irish, A Family’s Strength When Muscles Fail
Excellence in Social Media
- CBC New Brunswick – Social Media Election Coverage
News – Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award
- Global New Brunswick – New Brunswick Election, Online Coverage
Sports – Feature Reporting
- CBC North – 2018 AWG Topic Page
Multiplatform
Dejero Award for Best Technical Innovation
- CBC Indigenous – Live Q&A – No Pipe Land and Sea Rally in Pictou N.S., FB Live with Nic Meloney and Hereditary Chiefs
Investigative – Dan McArthur Award
- CBC Indigenous – Heredity or Hoax? How Dog DNA Helped Uncover a Suspected Indian Status Scam
Original / Enterprise
- Global Halifax – Swissair 111 Crash 20th Anniversary
Global Halifax wins an RTDNA original/enterprise award for our coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Swissair 111 Crash. #cdnmedia pic.twitter.com/bOnEOYRBqP
— Alexander Quon (@AlexanderQuon) March 31, 2019
Radio
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award
- CBC North Iqaluit – Northmart in Iqaluit Destroyed by Fire
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award
- CBC North Iqaluit – Nunavut’s TB Epidemic
Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award
- CBC Nova Scotia – Information Morning Cape Breton, Explorations in Unama’ki
A great night for CBC. Congrats to all! #RTDNA pic.twitter.com/B5B2ETM21Z
— Mariajosé Burgos (@mjburgosh) March 31, 2019
Excellence in Sound – Dick Smyth Award
- VOCM NEWS – Meech Kean Compilation
Long Feature – Dave Rogers Award (Small/Medium Market)
- CBC Atlantic Voice – Storytime: Addict, Inmate, Author
Congratulations to #cbcnl journalist @carolinehillier for winning the .@RTDNA_Canada East Region Long Feature award for her documentary, Storytime: Addict, Inmate, Author.
Brava! pic.twitter.com/E6wUQJmNeb
— CBC Newfoundland and Labrador (@CBCNL) March 31, 2019
News – Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award
- CBC North – AWG Live Inuktitut Hockey Coverage (with guest commentator David Ningeongan)
Radio News Information Program – Peter Gzowski Award
- CBC New Brunswick – Shift New Brunswick, Day of the Shooting
Radio Newscast – Byron MacGregor Award (Small/Medium Market)
- NEWS 95.7 – The NEWS 957 Morning News, High Times for Cannabis Countdown
Very proud of the @NEWS957 team who were awarded the 2018 RTDNA Atlantic Best Newscast Award last night. Well done! pic.twitter.com/91qzsp6GYa
— Dan Ahlstrand (@danahlstrand) March 31, 2019
Television
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award
- CBC North Iqaluit – Iqaluit’s Bowhead Whale Hunt
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award
- CTV Atlantic – High Water, The River on Our Doorstep
Very proud of the @CTVAtlantic team tonight for winning four @RTDNA_Canada awards, including Best TV Newscast. Thanks for the great work! pic.twitter.com/2RuIDqZ40p
— Dan Appleby (@DanApplebyCTV) March 31, 2019
Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award
- Global Halifax – Long Term Care in Nova Scotia
Long Feature – Dave Rogers Award (Small/Medium Market)
- CBC North – Polar Bears vs. People
News – Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award
- CTV Atlantic – Decision Deadlock, Who’s your Premier?
Short Feature – Dave Rogers Award (Small/Medium Market)
- Global New Brunswick – Cerebral Palsy Basketball Kid
Sports – Feature Reporting
- NTV (CJON) – A Stirling Legacy
Congratulations to @NTVNewsNL News Director & Sports Reporter @MarkDwyerNTV on his sports feature reporting award through @RTDNA_Canada. The piece celebrated the life of Kim Stirling & legacy she left with the creation of the coveted Kim Stirling Memorial Trophy for female rowers pic.twitter.com/IWMO4XMf1B
— Jodi Cooke (@Jodicookeskis) March 31, 2019
TV News Information Program – Trina McQueen Award
- CTV Atlantic – Raising Questions, No Harm Intended
TV Newscast – Bert Cannings Award (Small/Medium Market)
- CTV Atlantic – Fire & Smoke, Refinery Explosion Shakes City
Just a few of the strong, talented, beautiful women I work with @CTVAtlantic – out having a time at the @RTDNA_Canada Regional Awards night! pic.twitter.com/O3tcnTszf8
— Heather Butts (@HeatherButtsCTV) March 31, 2019
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