RTDNA Canada Announces Prairie Region Award Finalists

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

Prairie Region winners will be announced at the regional awards ceremony on April 21 in Regina, SK. To read more about the meeting, or to register, visit http://www.rtdnacanada.com/2018-prairie-regional-meeting/.

Congratulations to the finalists for their exceptional work!

2018 RTDNA Awards – PRAIRIE Region Finalists:

Digital

Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award

CBC Edmonton, Terror in Edmonton
CBC Saskatchwan, Fond-du-Lac Plane Crash
Global Edmonton, U-Haul Attack

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

CBC Calgary, The Trial of Douglas Garland
CBC Edmonton, Serenity’s Siblings, A Mother’s nightmare
CBC Saskatchewan, Hannah Leflar
Global Edmonton, U-Haul Attack

Data Storytelling Award

CBC Calgary, Lead, Oil, Salt: Calgary’s Push for Control Over Potentially Hundreds of Contaminated Sites
CBC Edmonton, The Colour of Carding
CBC Saskatchewan, In Line for Life

Digital Media Award (Small/Medium Market)

CBC Manitoba, Life on the Line
CBC Saskatchewan, Crystal Wreck
CHAT Television, Windstorm & Grass Fires October 17

Digital Media Award (Large Market)

CBC Calgary, CBC Calgary Digital
CBC Edmonton, Little Pills, Big Trouble
Global Edmonton, Globalnews.ca/edmonton

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CBC Edmonton, Hijabi in the Oilsands
CBC Edmonton, ‘With You Until I Die’
CBC Yellowknife, My Language, My Heart

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

CTV Calgary, Civic Election 2017
CTV Regina, Saskatchewan Budget 2017
Global Edmonton, Municipal Elections

Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award

CBC Calgary, Alberta’s $10-Billion Deficits: What’s Behind That Big, Scary Number
CBC Calgary, Why Would a City Councillor Record Another Councillor?
CBC Edmonton, Uniting the Right

Podcast Award

CBC Calgary, Allison Dempster, Heroes, Hustlers and Horsemen
Global News Radio – 770 CHQR Calgary, Off-Script- Episode 3- The Rosebud Project
Global News Radio – 770 CHQR Calgary, Off-Script- Episode 9- Midfield of Dreams

Social Media Award

CBC Edmonton, Edmonton Votes 2017
CBC Manitoba, Manitoba’s Refugee Influx
CBC Saskatchewan, Sask Budget 2017

Sports – Feature Reporting Award

CBC Calgary, Skijoring: The Art of Skiing Behind a Horse
CBC Edmonton, The Edmonton Oilers

Multiplatform

In-depth or Investigative – Dan McArthur Award

CBC Calgary, Spinning the Election Numbers, Taxes, Jobs and Arena Explained
CBC Edmonton, Private Health, Public Risk?
Global News Winnipeg, Robin Milne Medical Bills, Global News / CJOB / Globalnews.ca

Innovation Award

CBC Calgary, Calgary: The Road Ahead LIVE
CBC Yellowknife, Housing Crisis in Fort Good Hope
Global Calgary, Decision Calgary

Radio

Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award

650 CKOM, Gunshots Fired in Downtown Saskatoon
CBC Edmonton, ‘Acts of Terrorism’
CHAT 94.5 FM, Wind and Wildfires October 17

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

680 CJOB, Growing Pains
CBC Yellowknife, Fort Chipewyan’s Missing Hunters
Global News Radio – 770 CHQR Calgary, Danielle Smith: Midfield

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CBC Calgary, How should Canada Screen Immigrants? Alberta@Noon
CBC Saskatchewan, Thom Collegiate Drummers

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

CBC Manitoba, Derksen Family
CBC Saskatchewan, Death Doula
CBC Yellowknife, I Will Remember For You

Long Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CBC Calgary, Vegan Dating
CBC Edmonton, Wapiti Flight 402, The Untold Story of the Noskiye Family
Global News Radio – 770 CHQR Calgary, Brentwood 5: Opening Up About Mental Health With the Survivors

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

CBC Calgary, A Homestretch Special: CBC Calgary Celebrates Canada’s 150th
CBC Edmonton, Canada Day 150, Daybreak Alberta Live from the Legislature
Global News Radio – 770 CHQR Calgary, Kenow Fire: From the Lead Up to the Aftermath

Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award

770 CHQR Calgary, Gord Gillies: Step Up And Get an Arena Deal Done in Calgary
Global News Radio – 770 CHQR Calgary, Rob Breakenridge: Don’t Throw Your Cigarette Butts Out the Windows

Radio News Information Program – Peter Gzowski Award

CBC Calgary, Calgary Eyeopener, September 14, 2017
CBC Saskatchewan, Fond-du-Lac Plane Crash

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

680 CJOB, Live at 5 with Richard Cloutier and Julie Buckingham
980 CJME, Wind and Fire Storm
QCountry 91.5 FM, QCountry 91.5 FM News

Radio Newscast (Large Market) – Byron MacGregor Award

660NEWS, Nenshi Wins Again
770 CHQR, Major News at 8, September 13, 2017
CBC CALGARY, Calgary Radio News, September 13, 2017

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

980 CJME, The Amazing Grace of Electronic Sight
CBC Saskatchewan, Dancing Hotdog

Short Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CBC Calgary, Oilpatch Dad
Global News Radio – 770 CHQR Calgary, Hanukkah

Sound – Dick Smyth Award

CBC Calgary, Chaos Day
CBC Edmonton, Christmas at Bob’s
CBC Saskatchewan, Ethan – Employee of the Week

Sports – Feature Reporting Award

CBC Calgary, World Skateboarding Day 2017: Calgary’s 100% All Girls Skate Club

Television

Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award

CTV Edmonton, EDMONTON TERROR ATTACK
Global Calgary, Airdrie Grass Fire
Global Edmonton, U-Haul Attack

Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award

CTV Regina, Summer of Ground Shifting
Global Calgary, Fostering Change
Global Edmonton, U-Haul Attack

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award

CTV Calgary, Indian Relay Race
CTV Winnipeg, Game Changer
Global Regina, Colonialism Skateboards

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

CBC Manitoba, A Syrian Girl’s Road To Recovery
Global Regina, Monument
Global Regina, The Train Conductor

Long Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CTV Calgary, A Grizzly Debate
CTV Calgary, A New Start
Global Edmonton, Fort McMurray: The Road Back

News-Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award

CTV Calgary, Civic Election 2017
CTV Regina, Saskatchewan Budget 2017
Global Calgary, #Our YYC on the Road – Calgary Stampede

Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award

Global Edmonton, Referendum Referee, Bob Layton Editorial

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

CBC Yellowknife, Mobile Addictions
CTV Regina, Harvesting Hope: The Brothers of the Bursary
Global Regina, The Happy Nun

Short Feature (Large Market) – Dave Rogers Award

CTV Calgary, Diabetic Pilots
CTV Edmonton, INCLUSION
Global Edmonton, Profiles in Courage: Christian Zyp

Sports – Feature Reporting Award

CHAT Television, Inspiration On Ice
CTV Edmonton, RYDER SOCCER
Global Regina, Mosaic Legacy

TV News Information Program – Trina McQueen Award

CBC Edmonton, Our Edmonton, The Dino Edition
CTV Regina, Indigenous Circle
CTV Two Alberta, Alberta Primetime
Global Regina, Focus Saskatchewan, Episode 207

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

CBC Saskatchewan, CBC Saskatchewan News at 6:00
CTV Winnipeg, CTV Winnipeg News At 6
Global Lethbridge, The Kenow Wildfire Threatens Waterton

TV Newscast (Large Market) – Bert Cannings Award

CTV Calgary, CTV Calgary News at 6, Southern Alberta Wildfires Newscast
Global Calgary, Waterton Wildfire
Global Edmonton, Global News Hour at 6, U-Haul Attack

Video – Hugh Hauland Award

CTV Calgary, Cave Music
CTV Edmonton, HOT DAY
Global Regina, Junkaholic

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Contact Information

Ian Koenigsfest
President
RTNDA Canada
president@rtdnacanada.com

Karen Mitchell
Co-chair, Prairies Region, RTDNA Canada
karen.mitchell@bellmedia.ca

Liam Nixon
Co-chair, Prairies Region, RTDNA Canada
liam.nixon@globalnews.ca

Jennifer Nguyen
RTDNA Canada Awards
info@rtdnacanada.com

http://www.rtdnacanada.com

SOURCE: RTDNA Canada

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