2024 West Region Awards Finalists
RTDNA Canada Announces 2024 West Region Awards Finalists
Vancouver, BC (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 West Region Finalists
AUDIO
Best Podcast
CBC Prince Rupert The Urbariginal
Rogers Frequency Network Whiskey Creek: Island Crime Season 5
Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Yukon N.W.T. wildfires prompt territorial evacuation order: CBC Yukon special broadcast
CBC Kelowna Tumbler Ridge on Alert: Radio West covers the West Kiskatinaw River wildfire
Breaking News (Large Market)
980 CKNW Decampment in the Downtown Eastside 05-Apr-23
CBC British Columbia Fast Moving Fire: McDougall Creek wildfire descends on the Okanagan
CityNews 1130 Coquitlam Officer Shooting
Excellence in Editing
CBC Yukon In the loop: The art of sampling in a Whitehorse studio
CBC Vancouver Choosing Vancouver’s Beer of the Summer
Excellence in Sports Reporting
CBC Kelowna The World Curls in Kelowna
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
CBC British Columbia Better Late
News – Live Special Events
CBC News British Columbia 4 Days: The McDougall Creek and Bush Creek East Fires
Opinion
CBC Kelowna In the Eye of the Firestorm: Chris Walker on the 2024 BC Wildfires
Radio Newscast (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Kamloops Kamloops News, 8:30 am, November 30, 2023
Radio Newscast (Large Market)
CBC Vancouver McDougall Creek Fire: Drew Kerekes
DIGITAL
Breaking News (Large Market)
CBC British Columbia Kelowna declares state of emergency after wildfire jumps Okanagan Lake, prompting more evacuations
Global BC B.C. wildfires coverage
Excellence in Data Storytelling
CBC Vancouver What’s the route of all evil? These are the most complained about bus lines in Metro Vancouver and why they’re causing frustration
Excellence in Social
CBC British Columbia Up in Flames
Global BC Father’s Day powwow
Excellence in Sports Reporting
Global BC A powerful statement of pride: Basketball is a legacy for this First Nations family
Feature News (Large Market)
CBC British Columbia The lives behind the numbers
Global BC When police fail, this First Nations tracker steps in: I’m searching for our people
UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media Friendship Through Foam Swords: Welcome to the Seaside Keep
News – Live Special Events
CBC British Columbia Vancouver police, city staff begin removing encampment on East Hastings Street
Global BC A hero: Family, colleagues honour fallen RCMP Const. Rick O’Brien in moving service
Opinion
CBC Vancouver Parental Guidance: Parenting is tough, doing it with mental health issues makes it even harder
Overall Excellence in Digital
CBC British Columbia cbc.ca/bc
CTV Vancouver CTV News Vancouver
Global BC Global BC
MULTIPLATFORM
Continuing Coverage (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Yukon Together Today For Our Children Tomorrow: A vision of Yukon First Nations self governance that started with historic delegation to Ottawa
CBC Yukon Whitehorse House Explosion: Felt like ‘earthquake’ and ‘bomb’
Continuing Coverage (Large Market)
CBC News B.C. A deep dive into Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Global BC SROs: SRO Model Review
CityNews 1130 Metro Vancouver Overpass Strikes
Enterprise Journalism (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Yukon The Unceded Yukon: As Yukon marks 50 years since the start of land claim negotiations, one First Nation in the territory finds its own way
Enterprise Journalism (Large Market)
Global BC Drug Diversion
CBC British Columbia What happened to Noelle O’Soup?
CTV Vancouver The muzzling of B.C. health-care workers
Excellence in Innovation
CBC British Columbia BC Today transition to livestream
Investigative Excellence
CBC British Columbia Traveling with a disability
CBC Yukon Unsafe Passage: How the Whitehorse dam and its powerful turbines could be affecting young chinook salmon
CTV Vancouver B.C.’s broken child welfare system
VIDEO
Audio-Visual Storytelling
CBC Vancouver A deeper look at the Khalistan movement
UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media Savouring Sisterhood One Falafel at a Time
Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Prince George Prince George Explosion
Breaking News (Large Market)
CBC British Columbia State of Emergency in B.C. as West Kelowna battles volatile wildfire
CTV Vancouver B.C. wildfire emergency
Global BC August 17: West Kelowna Fire
Excellence in Editing
CBC Yukon Muscle Memory Yukon seniors transported, supported by paddling excursion
CBC News B.C. Why a marine heat wave could be deadly for B.C. waters
Excellence in Sports Reporting
Global BC Vanni Sartini
CBC British Columbia Former wrestler ‘shocked’ by disciplinary decision after filing sexual assault complaint against coach
CBC Yukon Arctic Winter Games 2023: Live at the Knuckle Hop
Excellence in Video
CBC Yukon The fight for accessibility in Whitehorse: Advocates ask, does every life in this city have value?
CTV Vancouver Inside Vancouver’s busiest fire hall
CBC News B.C. Parks and reclamation
Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Yukon Bracing For The Big One: Staring down an unprecedented summer of wildfires, how prepared is the Yukon?
CFJC Kamloops This is Luke: After 19 Years, Luke Verhoeff Finds His Voice
Feature News (Large Market)
CBC British Columbia Life in an Electrical Closet
Global BC Little Mountain
News – Live Special Events
Global BC RCMP Officer Funeral
CBC British Columbia Burnaby Search and Rescue Team greeted as heroes after returning from work in earthquake-ravaged Turkey
Opinion
CTV Vancouver Officer down
TV Newscast (Small/Medium Market)
Global Okanagan Global Okanagan 5 pm News
CFJC Kamloops Fleeing the Flames: CFJC Evening News – August 3, 2023
TV Newscast (Large Market)
CBC British Columbia CBC Vancouver at 6 – November 2, 2023
CTV Vancouver CTV News at 6
Global BC Fires: August 18
VJ – Video
CityNews Vancouver Vancouver skateboarders take to the streets
Global BC North Shore Bike Park
CTV Vancouver Washed up sailboat becomes attraction
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Contact Information:
Bhupinder Hundal
West Region, Co-Chair, RTDNA Canada
bhupinder.hundal@globalnews.ca
Jumy Ogunsola
West Region, Co-Chair, RTDNA Canada
RTDNA Canada