RTDNA Canada Announces 2024 Prairie Region Awards Finalists
Calgary, AB (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 Prairies Region Finalists
AUDIO
Best Podcast
680 CJOB Decision Manitoba: The Podcast
650 CKOM The Shell Lake Massacre
CBC Edmonton The Loop: How do we talk about inclusive education?
Breaking News (Large Market)
CityNews 660 Black Friday Stabbing at Market Mall
CityNews 660 Mayhem On Memorial
Excellence in Editing
CBC Calgary Greenhouse on the Grasslands
CBC Edmonton The Lindy Hop lives on
CBC Edmonton Accordion Art
Excellence in Sports Reporting
980 CJME Stairway to Heaven: Lang’s Hockey Cathedral a Step Back in Time
680 CJOB The Film Room
CBC Edmonton One-handed goalie stops shots with custom glove
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
980 CJME We were taken away: Star Blanket’s Search for its History
CBC Saskatchewan Keeping Ethan Alive
Feature News (Large Market)
680 CJOB Manitoba’s Drug Treatment Court
CBC Manitoba You’ve heard of a dental hygienist and a dentist…but what about a dental therapist?
CBC Calgary Housing of Last Resort
News – Live Special Events
CBC Calgary Yellowknife Evacuates – Alberta Responds: Alberta At Noon
CBC N.W.T. and CBC Yukon Yellowknife evacuation live special.
CBC Edmonton Alberta Burns
Radio Newscast (Small/Medium Market)
650 CKOM 650 CKOM Morning News
980 CJME 980 CJME Morning News
Radio Newscast (Large Market)
680 CJOB Carberry Bus Crash: Live at 5
CBC Manitoba June 15, 5:30 p.m. Radio Newscast
DIGITAL
Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC North, N.W.T. Wildfire burns structures south of Hay River, N.W.T., through Enterprise
CBC Saskatchewan Humboldt Lake Heroes
Breaking News (Large Market)
CBC Edmonton Edmonton police shootings
CBC Manitoba 15 confirmed dead after collision between bus carrying seniors and semi in southwestern Manitoba: RCMP
Excellence in Data Storytelling
CBC Saskatchewan The sky-high price of dirt.
CBC Calgary WestJet in the west, Air Canada in the east: Why Canada’s airlines are becoming more regional
CBC Calgary Alberta’s big budget question: What to do with the torrent of cash flooding provincial coffers
Excellence in Social
CBC Manitoba Manitoba Election TikTok
Excellence in Sports Reporting
CBC Calgary Why cowboys put it all on the line to stay on a 2,000-lb bull for 8 seconds
CBC Manitoba Steinbach’s growing Filipino diaspora created their own basketball league, then opened it to all
CBC Saskatchewan Connor Bedard’s NHL future looms — but his focus is still on Regina
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Saskatchewan The Last Post
CBC North, N.W.T. Building Back
CTV News Saskatoon When a minute lasts forever: Sask. mom still mourning son slain by gang
Feature News (Large Market)
CBC Calgary Vern vs. the miners
CBC Manitoba 24 people, 1 home
CBC Calgary They don’t call em’ Texas Gates in Texas
Opinion
CBC Manitoba The next time you present a land acknowledgement, remember Linda Mary Beardy
CBC Saskatchewan Retracing my grandfather’s steps
CBC Calgary Alberta’s budding energy-storage industry is set to bloom. The renewables pause has cast a chill
Overall Excellence in Digital
CBC Calgary Digital explorations of health, ideology, carbon taxes and glaciers
CTV News Winnipeg CTV News Winnipeg Team
CBC Manitoba CBC.ca/Manitoba
MULTIPLATFORM
Continuing Coverage (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Saskatchewan Faces of Fentanyl: Overdose Crisis
CTV News Saskatoon Saskatoon Hospital Overcrowding
CTV Regina Homeless Encampment at City Hall
Continuing Coverage (Large Market)
CBC Calgary The Way Out: Addiction in Alberta
CBC Edmonton Alberta’s rural healthcare crisis
CBC Calgary Untangling Calgary’s housing crisis
Enterprise Journalism (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Saskatchewan A Good Death
650 CKOM Stories from the Streets: Putting a face to Saskatoon’s homeless
CBC North, N.W.T. Dayhome owner fights to keep licence
Enterprise Journalism (Large Market)
Global Edmonton Journey Towards Reconciliation
CBC Edmonton Frostbite amputations hit record high
CBC Calgary The canary in the icefield
Excellence in Innovation
CBC Manitoba Mother. Sister. Daughter. An MMIWG Project
CTV Calgary Calgary Stampede Parade
Global News Calgary Million March 4 Children draws hundreds of supporters, counter-protesters in downtown Calgary
Investigative Excellence
CBC Manitoba Housing in ruins The state of public housing in Manitoba is crumbling, tenants and advocates say
VIDEO
Audio-Visual Storytelling
CBC Manitoba Teens in northern Manitoba First Nation experience the thrill of catching their first fish
Global News Calgary Alberta Floods: 10 Years Later
CBC Edmonton Sneakerhead check!
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
CTV News Officers Killed
CBC Manitoba Carberry Crash
Excellence in Editing
Global Edmonton Journey Towards Reconciliation The Pope’s Visit
CBC Manitoba CBC’s Jim Agapito hanging out with the bowling community in St. Boniface
CBC Calgary Viral figure skater inspiring diversity in his sport
Excellence in Sports Reporting
CTV Regina Diversifying Disc Golf
Global Edmonton 90-year-old Track Athlete
CBC Manitoba Winnipegger competing in 2023 Invictus Games
Excellence in Video
CBC Manitoba Young Winnipeg woman fights to escape her family’s horrifying history with landfills
CBC Calgary A Candid Conversation about Transgender Rights
CBC Edmonton This First Nation fights climate change with rows of trees
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Saskatchewan Unlocking Family Secrets
CBC Saskatchewan Mush!
CBC Saskatchewan Heartstrings
Feature News (Large Market)
CBC Edmonton Waiting for the siren call?
CBC Calgary Vern vs. the miners
CBC Manitoba How the St. Boniface Street Links outreach team is working to meet the needs of vulnerable Winnipeggers
News – Live Special Events
CBC Alberta Alberta Votes 2023
CBC North, N.W.T. N.W.T. VOTES: Election Night Special
CBC Manitoba Manitoba Votes
Opinion
CBC Edmonton My journey with ADHD
TV Newscast (Small/Medium Market)
CTV Regina CTV News at Six
CBC North, N.W.T. Kátł’odeeche and Hay River Evacuate
CTV Saskatoon Forest Fire Devastation CTV Saskatoon May 17, 2023
TV Newscast (Large Market)
Global Edmonton Global News Hour at 6 Alberta Wildfire Evacuations
CTV Calgary CTV Calgary News at 6 Sept. 27, 2023
CTV News Winnipeg CTV News Winnipeg at Six
VJ – Video
Global Winnipeg Camp yAAC
Global News Calgary Canadian war medals unearthed at Calgary Goodwill donation centre
CBC Edmonton Expanding mental health services on First Nations
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Contact Information:
Donna Carreiro
Prairie Region, Co-Chair, RTDNA Canada
Sherri Clark
Prairie Region, Co-Chair, RTDNA Canada
Holly Moore
Prairie Region, Co-Chair, RTDNA Canada
RTDNA Canada