RTDNA Canada Announces Central Region Award Finalists

TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / March 20, 2018 / RTDNA Canada is pleased to recognize excellence in electronic journalism in the Central 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.”

Central Region winners will be announced at the regional awards ceremony on April 14 in Toronto, ON. To read more about the meeting, or to register, visit http://www.rtdnacanada.com/2018-central-regional-meeting/.

Congratulations to the finalists for their exceptional work!

2018 RTDNA Awards – CENTRAL Region Finalists:

Digital

Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award

CBC Montreal, Evacuations Begin as Floods Strikes Montreal Area
CBC Montreal, Powerful Summer Storm Strikes Montreal
CBC Ottawa, Air Transat 911

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

CBC Hamilton, Woman Dies During Ambulance Shortage
CBC Montreal, Inside Quebec’s Far Right
CBC Quebec, Quebec City Mosque Shooting

Data Storytelling Award

CBC Montreal, Here’s How Bad Montreal’s Asphalt Gets in Just 5 Years
CBC Montreal, What 10,000 Kickstarter Projects Reveal About Canada’s Entrepreneurs
Global Toronto, Toronto Police Issue Fewer DUI Tickets

Digital Media Award (Small/Medium Market)

CBC Hamilton, Hamilton’s Identity Crisis
CBC Thunder Bay, Children of the Poisoned River
CBC Windsor, CBC Digital, I Am A Refugee

Digital Media Award (Large Market)

CBC Montreal Website, CBC Montreal Website, Roots Of Montreal, Leonard Cohen, Mapping History, Bad Roads, Election Results
CTV Montreal, Healing Wounds: Meet The Soliders Who Suffered Under The ”Gay Purge”
CTV News Ottawa, Drugs in Ottawa, Experts take to CTV Ottawa’s Facebook Live to Answer Questions

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CBC Montreal, The Rise of Mado Lamotte, Queen of Montreal’s Gay Village
HuffPost Quebec, Trans.com – La transidentité à l’ère d’internet
Toronto.CTVNews.ca, Getting to know Daniel Caesar

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

CBC Montreal, Montreal Marks 375 Years
CBC Montreal, Quebec Votes: Municipal Election Night
Global Montreal, Municipal Election Night

Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award

CBC Montreal, Analysis of Quebec Politics, Fake News And The Far Right
CBC Ottawa, City Affairs Analysis, Joanne Chianello
TVO, TVO.org: John Michael Mcgrath on Urban Planning, Islamophobia And Affordable Housin

Podcast Award

CBC Montreal, Montreapolis
CBC Ottawa, One Question

Social Media Award

CBC Montreal, Montreal Votes 2017
CBC Toronto, No Fixed Address
TVO, TVO: The Agenda

Multiplatform

In-depth or Investigative – Dan McArthur Award

CBC London, Tracking London
CBC Thunder Bay, Children of the Poisoned River
CBC Toronto, No Fixed Address

Innovation Award

CBC Montreal, Quebec Votes: Municipal Elections 2017
CBC Ottawa, A Heartbeat Away
CBC Toronto, HERstory in Black

Radio

Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award

CBC Montreal, Montreal Declares State Of Emergency, May 7, 2017
NEWSTALK1010, Yonge/St.Clair Fire, Justine Lewkowicz, Hayley Cooper, James Moore
NEWSTALK 580 CFRA, Breaking News: Death of Gord Downie, The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll
NEWSTALK 580 CFRA, Downtown Gas Leak, News & Views with Rob Snow

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

CBC Sudbury, Elliot Lake Mall Collapse Trial, Olivia Stefanovich
CBC Toronto, Finding Shannon
NEWSTALK1010, Stepping Up to City Hall

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CBC Montreal, Emotional Convocation for McGill Law Grad Who Escaped Rwandan Genocide
CBC Ottawa, Aziz & Company Adieu, All in a Day
CBC Quebec City, Reclaiming Traditions of Inuit Midwifery: Salluit’s Maternity Program
CBC Sudbury, Hunters and Gatherers, Erik White

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

CBC London, ‘I am found’, Hear an Indigenous Man Explain His Return Home After a Year of Absence
CBC Sudbury, 18 Degrees, Markus Schwabe
CBC Thunder Bay, Children of the Poisoned River

Long Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CBC Montreal, How Men Experience Intimate Partner Abuse
NEWSTALK1010, Gord Downie Passes, John Moore
News Talk Radio, CJAD 800, Montreal Explored, Bikers Against Child Abuse

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

1310NEWS, Ottawa River Flood Watch, Neighbourhoods Evacuated
1310NEWS, The Great Flood of 2017
NEWSTALK 580 CFRA, Live Coverage from the Flood Zone, Ottawa Now with Evan Solomon

Radio News Information Program – Peter Gzowski Award

CBC Montreal, Stranded on Highway 13, Daybreak Montreal
CBC Quebec City, Shock and Fear: The Day After the Quebec Mosque Shooting
CBC Sudbury, National Aboriginal Day – Up North, Jason Turnbull

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

AM800 CKLW, August 30, 2017 – 8:30am News, Major Flooding
CBC Quebec City, The Day After the Mosque Shooting, 8:30 Newscast
CBC Windsor, CBC Windsor News – Aug. 30/2017, Water Becomes the Enemy

Radio Newscast (Large Market) – Byron MacGregor Award

1310NEWS, The 1310 Afternoon News, Ottawa River Flood Watch
680 NEWS, 680 NEWS
CBC Ottawa, Ottawa Radio News

Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award

CBC Montreal, Bernard St-Laurent Talks Quebec Politics: 2017 in Review
NEWSTALK 580 CFRA, Bill’s Neice Lost to Fentanyl, The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll
News Talk Radio, CJAD 800, Andrew’s Let’s Talk Story

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

CBC London, Unity After Homophobic Slur, Torn By Cultural Differences, 2 Men Exchange Hugs And Roses After Homophobic Slur
CBC Sudbury, A Trim at the Mission, Markus Schwabe
CBC Windsor, CBC News Windsor – August 29, 2017, Detroit Riots 50th Anniversary

Short Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CBC Montreal, How Montrealers Want to Make Roads Safer
NEWSTALK1010, Debating Armed Cops in Schools, James Moore
NEWSTALK1010, Invictus Games-Closing Ceremonies NETWORK, Justine Lewkowicz

Sound – Dick Smyth Award

CBC Quebec City, A Week in the Life of Quebec City: The Aftermath of the Mosque Shooting
CBC Sudbury, Soiled Undies, Markus Schwabe
CJAD 800/CHOM 97 7, Goodbye to Gord Downie

Sports – Feature Reporting Award

CBC Montreal, Take a Knee With Dawson Basketball Players
CBC Sudbury, The 1967 Toronto Maple Leafs, Erik White
CBC Thunder Bay, A Fighting Chance

Television

Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award

CP24, BNR Fire
CTV Morning Live Ottawa, Live From the Flood Zone, CTV Morning Live Ottawa
CTV News Toronto, Hydro Vault Fire

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

City TV, Bad Landlord: Catching a Conman
CTV Montreal, Over the Line: Life Through the Eyes Of Asylum Seekers
CTV News Toronto, Algonquin School Trip Drowning

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CBC Montreal, His Name was Anthony, The Life and Death of Anthony Griffin And How he Changed a City
CTV News Ottawa, Building a New Life in Ottawa, Former Syrian Wrestling Champion Mohamed Alkrad’s Journey
CTV Windsor, Women Working in Male Dominated Jobs

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

CTV Northern Ontario, Life After The Military

Long Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

City TV, My Penpal: The Warlord’s Wife
City TV, Two Kilometres to Terror:Life and Death Under Isis
Radio-Canada Toronto, Toronto, La Nuit

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

CBC Ottawa, CBC Ottawa News at 6, Canada Day 2017
City TV, Forever Hip: Remembering Gord Downie
CTV News Ottawa, Canada Day in the Capital, A CTV News Special Broadcast

Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award

Global Toronto, 93 Killed a Day at the Barrel of a Gun

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

CTV Kitchener, NHL Crossing Guard
CTV London, Afghanistan Veteran, To Hell and Back
CTV Windsor, Taking No Steps For Granted, Hunter’s Story

Short Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CBC Montreal, Out of the Shadows: Inside La Meute
CTV News Toronto, Music Memory
Global News, Breaking the Glass Cockpit

Sports – Feature Reporting Award

CTV Kitchener, On the Roster, Field of Dreams
CTV London, Music Man
Global Montreal, 91-year-old Habs Superfan Ready for Playoffs

TV News Information Program – Trina McQueen Award

CBC Toronto, Our Toronto
Global Montreal, Decision 2017
Global Toronto, Focus Ontario: Confronting the Critics

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

CTV Barrie, Highway 400 Crash
CTV Kitchener, CTV Kitchener, London Attack
CTV London, Serial Killer Nurse

TV Newscast (Large Market) – Bert Cannings Award

CBC Ottawa, Rising Waters, CBC Ottawa News at 6
CTV News Ottawa, Live in the Flood Zone: CTV Ottawa Special
CTV News Toronto, CTV News at Six

Video – Hugh Hauland Award

CBC Ottawa, Flood Damage Tour, Rising Waters
CTV Montreal, Tranquility and Acceptance: ‘Chez Doris’ Retreat for Women
CTV News Ottawa, Sweet Canadiana, The Untold Story of Oscar Peterson’s World Famous ”Canadiana Suite”

About RTDNA

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Contact Information

Ian Koenigsfest
President, RTNDA Canada
president@rtdnacanada.com

Manny Paiva
Co-chair, Central Region, RTDNA Canada
Manny.Paiva@bellmedia.ca

Diana Pereira
Co-chair, Central Region, RTDNA Canada
Diana.Pereira@rci.rogers.com

Jennifer Nguyen
RTDNA Canada Awards
info@rtdnacanada.com

http://www.rtdnacanada.com

SOURCE: RTDNA Canada

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