2024 Central Region Awards Finalists
RTDNA Canada Announces 2024 Central Region Awards Finalists
TORONTO, ONTARIO (June 10, 2024) – RTDNA Canada is pleased to recognize excellence in digital and broadcast journalism with the Regional Awards of Excellence.
RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, platforms, stations, and news gathering organizations in audio, digital and video.
Regional awards winners will be announced on TBC.
Congratulations to the finalists for their excellent work!
2024 RTDNA Awards Central Region Finalists
AUDIO
Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Quebec Charlevoix hit by historic flooding
Breaking News (Large Market)
CBC Montreal Breaking News: Laval Bus Crash
CBC Toronto Rainbow Bridge Explosion
CityNews 680 Fiery Crash on the 401
Excellence in Editing
CBC Sudbury Coming Out in Northern Ontario by Bridget Yard
CBC Sudbury The Moose Cree Musher By Markus Schwabe
CityNews Ottawa Remember Me: Embracing Indigenous Narratives, The Sam Laprade Show Special Edition
Excellence in Sports Reporting
CBC Kitchener-Waterloo Jamal fever hits Kitchener
CBC Sudbury Gabi’s Big Job By Markus Schwabe
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Sudbury Mark Asselin Says Goodbye by Jonathan Migneault
CBC Quebec Quebec woman dies when 1st responders couldn’t pull her from river: Her family wants answers
99.3 County FM – The Voice of the County Voices From The Shadows: Homeless in a Rural Community
Feature News (Large Market)
CBC Toronto LGBTQ Refugees from Uganda find safety and welcome at a local pastor’s home
CBC Montreal Laval daycare bus crash
News – Live Special Events
CityNews Ottawa Remember Me: Embracing Indigenous Narratives, The Sam Laprade Show Special Edition
CBC Kitchener-Waterloo National Indigenous Peoples Day in K-W
CBC Quebec Breakaway live at KWE! Festival
Opinion
Newstalk 580 CFRA The Morning Rush with Bill Carroll: Paul Bernardo’s Prison Transfer
CBC Montreal The Black Bottom: A story of Blackness in Montreal told by Charles Burke
Radio Newscast (Large Market)
CBC Toronto 27-Jun-23
CBC Montreal Best Newscast: November 8th, 2023
CityNews 680 7 am Newscast, June 21, 2023
DIGITAL
Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Hamilton 2 dead after blast at Rainbow Bridge linking Ontario-N.Y., governor says ‘no sign’ of terrorism
CBC KW University of Waterloo stabbing
Breaking News (Large Market)
CBC Montreal Bus crashes into daycare in Laval, Que.
CP24 Two dead in Rainbow Bridge vehicle explosion
CBC Toronto John Tory resigns
Excellence in Data Storytelling
CBC Quebec Quebec police racial profiling data
CBC Toronto The Cost of Fraud
CBC Thunder Bay It’s almost impossible to find a family doctor in Thunder Bay we checked
Excellence in Social
CBC Toronto Toronto Votes 2023
CBC Montreal Montreal’s new rapid transit trains debut
CBC Kitchener-Waterloo Behind the scenes at CBC K-W
Excellence in Sports Reporting
CBC Montreal New Montreal plaza brings sports back to its roots
CP24 The WNBA comes to Toronto for a one-game showcase.
CityNews Toronto ‘I feel good wearing it’: Raptors Gary Trent Jr. shows off his fashion-stopping moments off the court
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC North Cree Unit Healing footsteps: 10 years since the Journey of Nishiyuu
CBC Sudbury Very Ready: How an Ontario Man Celebrated His End of Life by Jonathan Migneault
CBC Sudbury My Body’s Betrayed Me By Sam Juric
Feature News (Large Market)
The Green Line How Two Black Women Filmmakers From Toronto Created a Community That Launched the Black-Canadian Film Canon
CBC Montreal Meet the ‘OGs’ of Montreal hip-hop
CBC Ottawa A Worrisome Past
News – Live Special Events
CTV News Toronto Toronto Election Day 2023
CBC Toronto Toronto Votes 2023: Debate
CBC Quebec Quebec ice storm 2023
Opinion
CBC Montreal I saw my father reflected in the faces protesting against LGBTQ rights
Overall Excellence in Digital
CBC Quebec Meaningful digital journalism
Noovo Info Noovo Info
CBC Toronto Covering 2023
MULTIPLATFORM
Continuing Coverage (Small/Medium Market)
CBC North Cree Unit Lost in flames: Forest fires in Eeyou Istchee
CBC Thunder Bay The cultural theft of a beloved Anishinaabe artist’s legacy
CTV London & CTV Windsor Nathaniel Veltman Trial Coverage
Continuing Coverage (Large Market)
CBC Montreal Quebec’s record-breaking wildfires
CTV News Toronto Remembering Karolina Huebner-Makurat
CTV News Toronto Kenneth Law Investigation
Enterprise Journalism (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Sudbury Full Circle – Indigenous Child Welfare by Erik White
CTV News Northern Ontario Taking Back Timmins: Tackling Crime, Addiction and Homelessness
CTV News Kitchener Justice Denied: Sexual Assault Case Tossed Due To Court Delays
Enterprise Journalism (Large Market)
CityNews Toronto Motherhood from behind bars
Global News Montreal Montreal Chinatown Crisis
CBC Montreal Unhoused Ten Montrealers share their stories
Excellence in Innovation
CBC Ottawa Life in the Towers
The Green Line How diverse are Toronto’s galleries? Check out this database to find out.
CBC Toronto Construction Traffic
Investigative Excellence
CBC Toronto Peel school library book weeding
CTV News Toronto Ontario Greenbelt Scandal
CBC Ottawa Tewin Trees: Secret Clearcutting
VIDEO
Audio-Visual Storytelling
CBC Montreal ‘Inclusive’ gym creates safe space for 2SLGBTQ+ Montrealers to work out
Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
CTV News Kitchener Terror on Campus: University of Waterloo Triple Stabbing
Breaking News (Large Market)
CTV News Ottawa Orleans Explosion
CityNews Toronto Mayor John Tory resigns
CTV News Toronto John Tory Resigns: February 10th, 2023
Excellence in Editing
CBC Toronto Toronto’s housing problem
Excellence in Sports Reporting
CBC Thunder Bay These martial artists are wielding steel and exploring history
CityNews Toronto From the field to your living room
CBC Montreal Breaking Canada’s Para hockey glass ceiling
Excellence in Video
CityNews Toronto In the ring with rising kickboxing star
CBC Toronto Toronto Votes 2023 Monologue
CBC Ottawa Playing with Fire: The Faces of Ottawa’s Fentanyl Epidemic
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CHCH News Homophobic Graffiti in Port Colborne
CHCH News Local Artist Cancer Battle
CTV London Webster Street Renovictions Protest
Feature News (Large Market)
CityNews Toronto Work underway to identify Indigenous graves at forgotten Toronto cemetery
CTV Montreal D-10 baby: Father’s dying wish
CTV Montreal Rolloween: Duck tapers anonymous
News – Live Special Events
CBC Toronto Toronto Votes 2023
CHCH News Grey Cup Hamilton 2023
CTV London CTV London – Live at the Brier
Opinion
CBC Montreal What is gained and lost in immigrating to Canada?
CBC Thunder Bay She survived addiction and human trafficking. Now, she’s on the front line helping others
CHCH News “Not A Shack”
TV Newscast (Small/Medium Market)
CTV News Kitchener Violent Crash: Community Devastated after OPP Officer & Bus Driver Killed
CTV Barrie CTV Barrie newscast
TV Newscast (Large Market)
CTV News Ottawa CTV News Ottawa: Barrhaven Tornado
CBC Toronto CBC Toronto News at 6
Noovo Info Noovo Info 17
VJ – Video
CTV Montreal Ballet auditions
CityNews Toronto Mobility Cup Regatta
CTV News Toronto Trucks Turned Into Armoured Vehicles
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Contact Information:
Tina Cortese
Central Region, Co-Chair, RTDNA Canada
Ramneek Gill
Central Region, Co-Chair, RTDNA Canada
TBC
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