Check out CBC North s RTDNA award-winning stories for 2021
The winners of the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Canada regional awards have been announced, and CBC North is taking home seven this year.
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Posted: May 18, 2021 2:01 PM CT | Last Updated: May 18
Whitehorse teacher Monique Levesque visited some of her students last spring at their homes, when schools were closed due to the pandemic. CBC reporter Steve Silva s story about Levesque s driveway visits won an RTDNA award for feature news coverage.(Steve Silva/CBC)
KITCHENER CTV Kitchener has won two Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Canada Awards for Best Newscast and Overall Excellence in Digital in the Central Region. Reporters broadcasted live from the peaceful march in the downtown core, where thousands protested against anti-Black racism and police brutality. CTV Kitchener also won for Overall Excellence in Digital, an award category that considered all markets together regardless of size. Our team was honoured for their digital reporting in 2020, which included:
Also in the digital category, reporter Taryn Grant won the breaking news award in a small/medium market for her coverage of the tensions surrounding the First Nations lobster harvest in southwest Nova Scotia.
In October 2020, weeks after the Sipekne katik band launched its moderate livelihood fishery outside of the federally mandated season, several hundred commercial fishermen and their supporters raided two facilities where Mi kmaw fishermen were storing their catch.
A woman wears a face mask honouring the Treaty of 1752 as members of the Sipekne katik First Nation and others attend a ceremony on the wharf in Saulnierville, N.S., to bless the fleet before it launches its own self-regulated fishery on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020.(Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)
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