RTDNA Canada Announces East Region Award Finalists

TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 20, 2018 / RTDNA Canada is pleased to recognize excellence in electronic journalism in the East Region with the finalists for the regional awards.

RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital. “It has been another tumultuous year for journalism in this country but Canadian journalists have stood up to every challenge with passion, integrity and fortitude,” says RTDNA Canada President Ian Koenigsfest. “These prestigious RTDNA awards not only recognize excellence in journalism, they also reflect a healthy, vibrant and increasingly curious profession determined to remain committed to seeking out facts, balance and objectivity.”

East Region winners will be announced at the regional awards ceremony on April 21 in Dartmouth, NS. To read more about the meeting, please visit http://www.rtdnacanada.com/2018–east–regional–meeting/.

Congratulations to the finalists for their exceptional work!

2018 RTDNA
Awards – EAST Region Finalists:

Digital

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

CBC Nova Scotia, CBC Investigates, IWK Expense Scandal

CBC Prince Edward Island, Peace of Mind, PEI’s Mental Health System Strains to Meet the Needs

Data Storytelling Award

Global Halifax, Halifax Explosion

Digital Media Award (Small/Medium Market)

NEWS957, Halifax Explosion at 100, The City Remembers

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CBC New Brunswick, “Don’t Be Racist”, Moncton Students Unite When Racism Erupts at High School Football Game

CBC Prince Edward Island, 13 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Being Transgender but Were Afraid to Ask

CBC Prince Edward Island, The Debate Over Fort Amherst

Podcast Award

CBC NL, Tedwalks: Holly Hogan

Social Media Award

CBC Iqaluit, How Does Nunavut’s Consensus Government Work?

CBC Nova Scotia, CBC N.S. Facebook, Christopher Garnier Trial

Global Halifax, Christopher Garnier Trial, Natasha Pace

Multiplatform

In-depth or Investigative – Dan McArthur Award

CBC New Brunswick, The Lost Children

CBC Newfoundland and Labrador, Public Figure, Private Turmoil

Global News, The Inspection Gap, Food inspections in Nova Scotia

Innovation Award

CBC New Brunswick, At Loggerheads, J.D. Irving and Other Forest Companies Take an Axe to the Longtime Marketing Board System

CTV Atlantic, Out in the Open, CTV Election Roundtable 2017

Radio

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

VOCM, Municipal Election 2017

Long Feature (Small/Medium Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CBC Fredericton, Finding Max

CBC Nova Scotia, Atlantic Voice, L’amour Geant

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

NEWS957, Nova Scotia Votes 2017

Radio News Information Program – Peter Gzowski Award

CBC Prince Edward Island, Island Morning

NEWS957, The Sheldon MacLeod Show, Sober Second Thought

VOCM, VOCM News Roundtable, The Future of Rural NL – Challenges and Opportunities

Radio Newscast (Small/Medium Market) – Byron MacGregor Award

101.5 The Hawk (CIGO-FM), Noon News

989XFM, 8 a.m. News-October 13th, 2017

NEWS957, The NEWS957 Morning News

Short Feature (Small/Medium Market) – Dave Rogers Award

1310NEWS, Life After the Floods

NEWS957, Lenore Zann Speaks Out, #metooMLA

Sound – Dick Smyth Award

CBC Prince Edward Island, Riley’s Collection

Television

Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award

NTV News, Froude Avenue Fire

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

CBC Atlantic, Deep Trouble, The Perils of the Right Whale

CTV Atlantic, Playing the Long Game, SMU’s Fight to Finish the Loney Bowl

Global News, Nova Scotia Election 2017, Marieke Walsh

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CBC NL, Access Denied

CBC Nova Scotia, Shaina Luck Beginning Again

CTV Atlantic, Midnight Demolition, Documents Reveal Church’s Hidden History

Long Feature (Small/Medium Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CBC NL, Persons First: Inside the Wiseman Centre

CTV Atlantic, Decision to Die, The Medically Assisted Death of Dr. Doug Henshaw

CTV Atlantic, Mystery & Murder, The Last Public Execution in Halifax

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

CBC New Brunswick, CBC News: New Brunswick

CTV Atlantic, Too Close to Call, NS Election 2017

Global Halifax, Decision Nova Scotia, Election 2017

Short Feature (Small/Medium Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CTV Atlantic, Hidden in Plain View, The Spy Among Us

CTV Atlantic, Huntington Piece

Global News, Dramatic Cat Rescue

Sports Feature Reporting Award

NTV News, Little Hero, Big Champion

TV News Information Program – Trina McQueen Award

CTV Atlantic, Grand Adventure in Grand Pre, Celebrating a 400 Year Friendship

TV Newscast (Small/Medium Market) – Bert Cannings Award

CBC Newfoundland & Labrador, Here & Now, 30 Oct 17

CTV Atlantic, Battling the Blizzard, Weather Bomb Blankets the Maritimes

Global Halifax, Global News at 6, 06 Dec 17

About RTDNA

RTDNA Canada is the voice of broadcast and digital journalists and news managers in Canada. We believe an informed public is vital to a democratic society. Canadian Journalisms purpose is to serve the public interest. It is our responsibility to act independently, to be fair and respectful, and to report the facts. The RTDNA Canada Code of Journalistic Ethics, adopted by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, is used to measure fairness and accuracy in our profession. We welcome its adoption by all practicing journalists.

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Contact Information

Ian Koenigsfest
President, RTNDA Canada
president@rtdnacanada.com

Dan Appleby
Chair, East Region, RTDNA Canada
Dan.Appleby@bellmedia.ca

Jennifer Nguyen
RTDNA Canada Awards
info@rtdnacanada.com

http://www.rtdnacanada.com

SOURCE: RTDNA Canada

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