2024 National Awards

Congratulations to the National Award Winners!

RTDNA Canada is pleased to recognize excellence in digital and broadcast journalism with the National Awards of Excellence. RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, platforms, stations, and news-gathering organizations in audio, digital, and video.

“Congratulations on all your outstanding work during a news cycle that never stopped.”

Lis Travers
President, RTDNA Canada

2024 RTDNA Canada Awards Best National News

AUDIO – National

Best Podcast
  • CBC Ottawa
    The Banned Teacher
Feature News
  • CBC Doc Unit/The Current
    Parentless in Gaza
News Information Program
  • CBC’s The House
    On the frontlines of the toxic drug crisis
Opinion
  • CBC Healing After Harm:
    The Buffy Sainte-Marie Investigation

DIGITAL – National

Breaking News
  • Noovo Info
    Drame de la Garderie Aducative Sainte-Rose
Excellence in Data Storytelling
  • CBC News
    Climate Dashboard
Excellence in Newsletters
  • Global News
    Money 1-2-3
Excellence in Social
  • CBC Indigenous
    Assembly of First Nations election
Excellence in Sports Reporting
  • CBC Indigenous
    Grappling with a good mind
Feature News
  • CBC The Fifth Estate
    Why weren’t we believed?
News – Live Special Events
  • CTV News
    The King’s Coronation CTVNews.ca
Opinion
  • CBC First Person
    Searching for proof
Overall Excellence in Digital
  • CBC News
    Canada Wildfires

MULTIPLATFORM – National

Continuing Coverage
  • Global National
    Conflict between Israel and Hamas
Enterprise Journalism
  • CBC News Investigation Unit
    Paper Orphans: Korean orphans uncover the truth about their adoption history
Excellence in Innovation
  • CTV News W5
    Boom Boom Chuvalo
Investigative Excellence
  • CBC The Fifth Estate
    Making of an Icon

VIDEO – National

Breaking News
  • CBC News: Morning Live with Heather Hiscox
    Turkey Earthquake Rescue
Excellence in Sports Reporting
  • Global News: The New Reality
    Pickleball
Excellence in Video
  • CBC News The National
    Inside Ukraine
Feature News
  • CBC News The National
    Inside Ukraine
News – Live Special Events
  • CityNews
    The Coronation of a King
News Information Program
  • CTV News W5
    Narco Avocados
Opinion
  • CBC News The National
    Families fight for answers after deadly Montreal Airbnb fire
VJ
  • CTV News
    Scrub Squad: Erasing Graffiti in St. John’s,  Newfoundland
TV Newscast
  • Global National with Dawna Friesen
    Tuesday October 10th, 2023

2024 RTDNA Canada Awards Best Canadian Local News Winners

AUDIO

Best Podcast
  • CBC Prince Rupert
    The Urbariginal 
Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
  • CBC Quebec
    Charlevoix hit by historic flooding          
Breaking News (Large Market)
  • 980 CKNW
    Decampment in the Downtown Eastside 05-Apr-23
Excellence in Editing
  • CBC Calgary
    Greenhouse on the Grasslands 
Excellence in Sports Reporting
  • CBC Kitchener-Waterloo           
    Jamal fever hits Kitchener         
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
  • CBC Yukon
    Signs of Life: A deaf woman in her 70s reconnects with community in Whitehorse
Feature News (Large Market)
  • CBC Vancouver
    How the giddha folk dance and boliyan songs are  helping Punjabi-Canadian women connect with their roots
News – Live Special Events
  • CBC Calgary
    Yellowknife Evacuates – Alberta Responds: Alberta At Noon     
Opinion
  • CBC Kelowna 
    In the Eye of the Firestorm: Chris Walker on the 2024 BC Wildfires
Radio Newscast (Small/Medium Market)
  • 650 CKOM
    650 CKOM morning news         
Radio Newscast (Large Market)
  • 680 CJOB
    Carberry Bus Crash – live at 5   

DIGITAL

Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
  • CBC Nova Scotia
    Local state of emergency declared as forest fire rages near Halifax         
Breaking News (Large Market)
  • CBC Montreal
    Bus crashes into daycare in Laval, Que.
Excellence in Data Storytelling
  • CBC Quebec
    Quebec police racial profiling data         
Excellence in Social   
  • CBC Toronto
    Toronto Votes 2023
Excellence in Sports Reporting          
  • Global BC
    A powerful statement of pride: Basketball is a legacy for this First Nations family              
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
  • CBC Saskatchewan
    The Last Post   
Feature News (Large Market)
  • CBC British Columbia   
    The lives behind the numbers
News – Live Special Events    
  • CBC British Columbia   
    Vancouver police, city staff begin removing encampment on East Hastings Street
Opinion
  • CBC P.E.I.
    Stop asking Black people to perform emotional labour during Black History Month
Overall Excellence in Digital
  • CBC Quebec
    Meaningful digital journalism

MULTIPLATFORM

Continuing Coverage (Small/Medium)
  • CBC North Cree Unit    
    Lost in flames: Forest fires in Eeyou Istchee
Continuing Coverage (Large)
  • CBC Calgary
    The Way Out: Addiction in Alberta
Enterprise Journalism (Small/Medium)
  • CBC Saskatchewan
    A Good Death
Enterprise Journalism (Large)
  • CityNews Toronto 
    Motherhood from behind bars
Excellence in Innovation        
  • CBC British Columbia   
    BC Today transition to livestream
Investigative Excellence
  • CBC NL
    Walking the Line.

VIDEO

Audio-Visual Storytelling       
  • CBC Manitoba 
    Teens in northern Manitoba First Nation experience the thrill of catching their first fish      
Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)          
  • CBC North, N.W.T.
    Hay River evacuates as wildfire encroaches       
Breaking News (Large Market)
  • Global Edmonton
    Police Officers Killed     
Excellence in Editing
  • CBC Yukon
    Muscle Memory Yukon seniors transported, supported by paddling excursion      
Excellence in Sports Reporting
  • Global BC
    Vanni Sartini    
Excellence in Video    
  • CBC Manitoba 
    Young Winnipeg woman fights to escape her family’s horrifying history with landfills                     
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
  • CBC Saskatchewan      
    Unlocking Family Secrets         
Feature News (Large Market)
  • CBC British Columbia   
    Life in an Electrical Closet         
News – Live Special Events
  • CBC Toronto    
    Toronto Votes 2023  
Opinion          
  • CBC Montreal
    What is gained and lost in immigrating to Canada?         
TV Newscast (Small/Medium)
  • CTV Atlantic
    Nova Scotia Floods: Rainfall & Ruin
TV Newscast (Large Market)
  • CBC British Columbia
    CBC Vancouver at 6 – November 2, 2023          
VJ Video
  • CBC New Brunswick
    Poet strives to show Black history’s place in New Brunswick

Contact Information

RTDNA Canada | President

Lis Travers
president@rtdnacanada.com

RTDNA Canada | Awards Committee

awards@rtdnacanada.com
www.rtdnacanada.com