RTDNA Canada Announces 2023 West Region Award Winners 

Vancouver, BC (June 15, 2023) 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.

Congratulations to the winners for their excellent work!

2023 RTDNA Awards West Region Winners

AUDIO

Best Podcast

• • CBC Vancouver – Land Back    

Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)

• CBC Victoria – Saanich Robberies

Breaking News (Large Market)

• • Global B.C. – Langley Shootings

Excellence in Editing (Small/Medium Market)

• • CBC Kamloops – Nacho Chips, Crackers and Tiny Fish: How a B.C. Senior Survived on the Open Sea for Nearly 6 Days

Excellence in Editing (Large Market)

• • CBC Vancouver – The Magic of Marmalade

Excellence in Sports Reporting

• • CBC Yukon – Pro Soccer Debut

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)

• • CBC Yukon – Suitcase Stories

Feature News (Large Market)

• • CBC Vancouver – Punjabi Singer Diljit Dosanjh Selling Out Rogers Arena Marks a Cultural Shift in B.C.

News – Live Special Events

• • CBC Vancouver – Six Months Later: On the Coast Reports Live from Abbotsford on the Six-Month Anniversary of the B.C. Floods

Opinion

• • CBC Kelowna – Honk for the Kids: How Pandemic Protests Energized a New Parents’ Movement in B.C.

Radio Newscast (Small/Medium Market)

• • C-FAX 1070 – Victoria Today: Newscast, November 22, 2022

Radio Newscast (Large Market)

• • CityNews 1130 – Snowmageddon Nightmare Commute  

DIGITAL

Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)

• • CTV News Vancouver Island – Saanich bank shooting    

Breaking News (Large Market)

• • CBC British Columbia – Snowed In: Major Snowfall Causes Travel Chaos

Excellence in Data Storytelling

• • CBC Vancouver – Why Vancouver City Council is So Inefficient  

Excellence in Social

• • CBC Vancouver – What We Know About Chelsea Poorman’s Disappearance

Excellence in Sports Reporting

• • CBC British Columbia – Diamonds of the Downtown Eastside     

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)

• • CBC Yukon – When the Salmon Disappear        

Feature News (Large Market)

• • Global B.C. – Inadmissible: How a U.S. Policy is Wreaking Havoc on the Lives of Iranian-Canadians

News – Live Special Events

• • CBC British Columbia – B.C. Votes 2022

Opinion          

• • CBC Vancouver – Parental Guidance: It’s Never Been Easier for Your Kids to See Pornography. So, what should you do?

Overall Excellence in Digital

• • CBC British Columbia – cbc.ca/bc                      

MULTIPLATFORM

Continuing Coverage

• • Global B.C. – Chinatown: A Path Forward          

Excellence in Innovation, Sponsored by Dejero

• • CBC British Columbia – B.C. Votes 2022

Enterprise Journalism

• • Global B.C. – A Child, Failed in Life and in Death: The Tragic Case of Noelle O’Soup

Investigative Excellence

• • CBC Yukon – Hidden Valley School Abuse
    
    

VIDEO

Audio-Visual Storytelling (Small/Medium Market)

• • CTV News Vancouver Island – 55 Dogs: April 2022        

Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)

• • CTV News Vancouver Island – Saanich Shootout: June 2022      

Breaking News (Large Market)

• • CTV News Vancouver – Snowstorm Hits Metro Vancouver

Excellence in Editing (Small/Medium Market)

• • CBC Prince Rupert – Container Terminal Crunch Worries North Coast Fishers     

Excellence in Editing (Large Market)

• • Global B.C. – San Francisco Chinatown Tour     

Excellence in Sports Reporting

• • CBC Kelowna – Fans Push for Larry Kwong’s Induction Into the Hockey Hall of Fame      

Excellence in Video    

• • CBC Vancouver – Planet Wonder: Trees

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)

• • CBC Yukon – Percy Henry: The Last Speaker

Feature News (Large Market)

• • CBC Vancouver – Looking at the Legacy of Joe Fortes, a pioneering figure in B.C.’s Black Community

News – Live Special Events

• • CBC Vancouver – Kimberley, B.C. Wins CBC’s Best Small Town Bracket

Opinion

• • CBC Vancouver – Metro Matters on the 2022 election     

TV Newscast (Small/Medium Market)

• • CTV News Vancouver Island – CTV News at 6: Saanich Shootout

TV Newscast (Large Market)

• • Global B.C. – Global B.C. News Hour: December 20, 2022

VJ – Video

• • Global B.C. – Victoria Pickleball Protest

Honourable Mention

• • CTV News Vancouver Island – Glorious Golf: August 2022