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RTDNA Canada Announces 2020 Network Award Winners
Toronto, ONTARIO – (June 9, 2020) - RTDNA Canada is pleased to recognize journalistic excellence with the winners of the 2020 RTDNA Canada Network Awards.
RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, stations and newsgathering organizations in radio, television and digital.
Congratulations to the winners for their exceptional work! Please visit RTDNA Canada to view a highlight reel for each winner.
2020 RTDNA Canada Awards – Network Winners:
Digital
Best News App • CBC News – CBC News App
Best Podcast • TSN – Durbano
Best Sports App • Sportsnet – Sportsnet App
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award • Globalnews.ca – The Arrest of Cameron Ortis
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award • CBC News – Canada Votes (Digital)
Data Storytelling Award • Global News – Tainted: Tainted Water Consortium
Digital Media Award • CBC News: Indigenous Unit – Original Voices
Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award • CBC Indigenous – Original Voices
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Excellence in Social Media Award • Sportsnet – 2019 NBA Finals
News – Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award • CBC News – Canada Votes (Election Night Live Special DIGITAL)
Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award • HuffPost Canada – Perspectives on Trudeau Blackface Incidents
Sports – Feature Reporting • HuffPost Canada – The Race Never Ends for One of World's Top Ultra- Marathoners
Multiplatform
Dejero Award for Best Technical Innovation • CBC News – The National – Inside Syria
Excellence in Innovation • CTV News – 2019 Election Campaign: Truth Tracker
Investigative Journalism – Dan McArthur Award • CBC News – Canada's Broken School Violence Reporting System
Original / Enterprise • Global News – RCMP Culture of Misconduct Series
Radio
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award • CBC News: World Report – Christchurch Attacks
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – Saudi Women Flee Domestic Violence
Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award • CBC – Life in a Laundry Room - The Doc Project
Excellence in Sound – Dick Smyth Award • CBC News: World Report – D-Day 75th Anniversary
Best Long Feature – Dave Rogers Award • CBC Radio – Unreserved - Road Trip With my Kokum
News – Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award • CBC Radio News – Canada Votes 2019
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Radio News Information Program – Peter Gzowski Award • CBC News: Alberta Election Special, The House: The Race to Lead Alberta
Radio Newscast – Byron MacGregor Award • CBC News: World Report – Jody Wilson-Raybould and Michael Cohen Testify
Best Short Feature – Dave Rogers Award • The Canadian Press – One Bomb Remembered
Television
Breaking News – Charlie Edwards Award • CBC News: The National – Hong Kong Protests
Continuing Coverage – Ron Laidlaw Award • CTV News – Canada's Opioid Crisis
Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson Award • CBC News – The Fifth Estate: The Defectors
Excellence in Video – Hugh Haugland Award • CBC News: The National – Giants of Africa
Honourable mention: Bell Media – CTV W5, On the Brink
Best Long Feature – Dave Rogers Award • CBC News: Marketplace – Tracking Your Trash: Exposing Recycling Myths
News – Live Special Events – Gord Sinclair Award • CBC News – Canada Votes - Election Night
Opinion and Commentary – Sam Ross Award • CTV News – There are No Words - Terror in New Zealand
Best Short Feature – Dave Rogers Award • CBC News: The National – Inside Donetsk
Sports Feature Reporting • TSN – A Kid from Nowhere
Sports – Live Special Events • TSN – 2019 Grey Cup
TV News Information Program – Trina McQueen Award • Global National – The Moon Landing and the Maple Leaf
TV Newscast – Bert Cannings Award • CBC News: The National – March 17, 2019 4
About RTDNA
RTDNA Canada is the voice of electronic and digital journalists and news managers in Canada. The members of RTDNA Canada recognize the responsibility of broadcast and digital journalists to promote and to protect the freedom to report independently about matters of public interest and to present a wide range of expressions, opinions and ideas. The RTDNA Canada Journalistic Code of Ethics, adopted by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, is used to measure fairness and accuracy in our profession.
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Contact Information
Fiona Conway President, RTDNA Canada [email protected]
Sarah Daly RTDNA Canada [email protected] www.rtdnacanada.com