TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / April 11, 2019 / RTDNA Canada is pleased to recognize journalistic excellence with the finalists for the Network RTDNA Awards of Excellence.
RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital.
Network winners will be announced at the RTDNA Canada 2019 National Conference & Awards Gala. Join us May 10-11, 2019 at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto! For more information, please visit http://www.rtdnacanada.com/events/rtdna2019/
Congratulations to the finalists for their exceptional work!
2019 RTDNA Award - NETWORK Finalists:
Digital
Best News App
BNN Bloomberg - BNN Bloomberg App
CBC News - CBC News App
CBC Radio - Because News Alexa App
Best Podcast Award
CBC News - Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo
CBC Podcasts - Someone Knows Something: Kerrie Brown
CBC Podcasts - Uncover: Escaping NXIVM
Best Sports App
Sportsnet - Sportsnet Sports App
Charlie Edwards Award for Breaking News - Digital
Global News - Humboldt Bus Tragedy
Global News - Toronto Van Attack
Ron Laidlaw Award for Continuing Coverage - Digital
Global News - Legalization of Marijuana
HuffPost Canada - No Strings Attached
TSN - CTE Coverage on tsn.ca
Data Storytelling Award
BNN Bloomberg - One in 100: Canada’s Embarrassing’ Lack of Female CEOs Among Top TSX Companies
CBC News - Ontario Poll Tracker
HuffPost Canada / The Discourse / APTN - #TrackingTransMountain
Digital Media Award
CBC News - Cannabis and Legalization in Canada
Global News - Globalnews.ca
Sportsnet - Sportsnet.ca
Adrienne Clarkson Award for Diversity - Digital
Global News - Gen Z: Canada’s Untapped Generation
HuffPost Canada - Born & Raised
The Conversation Canada - Cutting-edge Perspectives on Culture and Society in Canada
Social Media Award
CBC Radio - As It Happens 50th Anniversary Animations
Global News - First Time I Was Called
Sportsnet - 2018 NHL Draft Lottery
Gord Sinclair Award for Outstanding Coverage of News - Live Special Events - Digital
Global News - The Royal Wedding
Sam Ross Award for Opinion and Commentary - Digital
Global News - You Can Lock Up Perpetrators of Hate Crimes - But the Online Vitriol That Motivates Them Only Grows
HuffPost Canada - Hometown
Sports Feature Reporting Award - Digital
Global News - Long-Simmering Dispute Could Keep Canada Out of World Lacrosse Championship For 1st Time Since 1967
Sportsnet - A Better Mirror - Inside Hockey Night Punjabi’s Fight to Be Part of Canada’s Game
Sportsnet - Doc’s Last Season
Multiplatform
Dejero Award for Best Technical Innovation
CBC News - The National: Mission in Mali
CTV NEWS - CTV’S Live Remotes: Harry and Meghan, The Royal Wedding
CTV NEWS - National iPhone Broadcast
Excellence in Innovation Award
CBC News - Forever Changed
CBC News - Canadian David Saint-Jacques’s Journey to the ISS - Live & Interactive Coverage
CTV News Channel and CTV News.ca - Cannabis Canada
Dan McArthur Award for Investigative Journalism
CBC News - Marketplace: CRA: Scam Centres
CTV W5 - No Witnesses
Global News - Dispensing Harm
Best Original / Enterprise Journalism
CBC News Interactives: Bomb On Board
CBC News - Deadly Force
CBC Vancouver - Telling on Telcos
Radio
Charlie Edwards Award for Breaking News - Radio
CBC News -The World at Six: Toronto Van Attack
CBC News - World Report: Fredericton Shooting
Ron Laidlaw Award for Continuing Coverage - Radio
CBC News - The World at Six: Inside Syria
CBC News - The World at Six: Rohingya Repatriation
CBC Radio - The Current: Humboldt Crash Coverage
Adrienne Clarkson Award for Diversity - Radio
CBC Radio - Now or Never: “I Don’t Think There’s an Ojibway Word For Duvet” - Residential School Survivor Gets Her First New Bed
CBC Radio - Ideas: Canada’s Slavery Secret: The whitewashing of 200 years of enslavement
CBC Radio - Out in the Open: How Straight, White, Able-Bodied Men Can Have A Role in Workplace Diversity
Dick Smyth Award for Excellence in Sound
CBC News - The World at Six: Farewell to the Queen of Soul
CBC News - World Report: Brexit and the Irish Border
CBC Radio - The Current: A Fowl Feud
Dave Rogers Award for Best Long Feature - Radio
CBC News - The World at Six: Race for Texas
CBC Radio - White Coat Black Art: A Doctor’s Story: The Las Vegas Shooting
CBC Radio - Now or Never: The 40-Year-Old Learner: A CBC Host Finally Gets Behind the Wheel
CBC Radio One - The Sunday Edition - One Judge Down
Gord Sinclair Award for Outstanding Coverage of News - Live Special Events - Radio
CBC News - America Votes: The U.S. Midterms
CBC News - The World at Six: Attack on Syria
CBC News - World Report: The Royal Wedding
Sam Ross Award for Opinion and Commentary - Radio
CBC Radio - Unreserved: “A long moment of stunned silence”
Peter Gzowski Award for Best Radio News Information Program
CBC Radio - On Drugs: Utah: Mormons and Addiction
CBC Radio - Out in the Open: “It’s a wound I don’t think will ever get covered”
TSN Radio: Junior Hockey Magazine
Byron MacGregor Award for Best Radio Newscast
CBC News - World Report: Humboldt Vigil
CBC News - The World at Six: A Deadly Day on Yonge Street
CBC News - The World This Weekend: Humboldt Bus Crash
Dave Rogers Award for Best Short Feature - Radio
The Canadian Press - A Time to Remember
CBC News - The World at Six: Choosing to Donate
CBC News - The World This Weekend: Irish Catholic Abuse
Television
Charlie Edwards Award for Breaking News - Television
CBC News - The National: Toronto Van Attack
CTV NEWS: Hurricane Michael
CTV News Channel: Toronto Van Attack
Ron Laidlaw Award for Continuing Coverage - Television
CBC News - The National: Humboldt Broncos Bus Crash
CBC News - The National: Bruce McArthur Investigation
Global National: Humboldt Hockey Tragedy
Adrienne Clarkson Award for Diversity - Television
CBC News - The National: Arviat Polar Bears
CBC News - The National: Water Walker
TSN - The Shift
Hugh Haugland Award for Excellence in Video
CBC News - The National: Dying Glaciers - Canada
CTV W5 - Lurid Paradise
TSN - Out of Nowhere
Dave Rogers Award for Best Long Feature - Television
CBC News - The Fifth Estate: Church of Secrets
CBC News - The National: Ryan’s Story
TSN - Reborn: Basketball & Reconciliation in Rwanda
Gord Sinclair Award for Outstanding Coverage of News - Live Special Events - Television
CBC News - The Royal Wedding: Harry & Meghan
CTV NEWS - Harry & Meghan: The Royal Wedding
TSN - Humboldt Broncos Season Opener Pre-Game
Sam Ross Award for Opinion and Commentary - Television
CBC News - The National: St. Louis Apology
CTV NEWS - Hope and Heroes: Essay on Thai Cave Rescue
CTV NEWS - Bus Life: Essay on the Humboldt Tragedy
Dave Rogers Award for Best Short Feature - Television
CBC News - The National: Recovering Stalingrad’s Dead, 75 Years after the Worst Battle in History
CBC News - The National: Lost Town, How a First World War Blast Destroyed a Newfoundland Town
Global News - Fentanyl Moms
Sports Feature Reporting Award - Television
CTV - W5-TSN: Hockey Mom
TSN - Mystery of Paul Ranger
TSN - 2 Roads to Humboldt
Sports - Live Special Events Award - Television
CBC Sports - PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games 2018
TSN - Humboldt Broncos Season Opener
TSN - IIHF World Junior Hockey Gold Medal Game
Trina McQueen Award for Best Television News Information Program - Television
CBC News - Marketplace - Testing Truck Safety
CBC News - Power & Politics: Legal Weed in Canada: What You Need to Know
CTV W5 - Hot Wheels | Suspect Zero
CTV W5 - Peril in Paradise | Spaceman
Bert Cannings Award for Best Television Newscast - Television
CBC News - The National: April 17, 2018
CTV NEWS - CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme - The Humboldt Tragedy - April 9, 2018
Global National - Marijuana Legalization Day
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