CBC B.C. nets 36 nominations for RTDNA broadcast and online news awards

CBC B.C.'s feature story about women on the All My Relations basketball team in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is one of 36 entries from CBC B.C. nominated for an RTDNA regional award in 2023. (Ben Nelms/CBC - image credit)
CBC B.C.'s feature story about women on the All My Relations basketball team in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood is one of 36 entries from CBC B.C. nominated for an RTDNA regional award in 2023. (Ben Nelms/CBC - image credit)

The country's broadcasting association has nominated 36 entries from CBC British Columbia for regional journalism awards.

The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) named CBC B.C. a finalist in all but four of its 40 categories in its annual awards for Western Canada, which includes the Yukon and B.C.

Several categories saw multiple nominations from the public broadcaster.

The awards recognize Canada's best journalism every year. Last year, CBC B.C. won 20 regional awards.

The CBC B.C.'s journalism recognized with nominations this year includes:

The association represents Canada's radio, television and digital news organizations. It issues annual awards, speaks for the broadcast sector, and developed an industry-respected Code of Journalistic Ethics for Canadian news media.

In addition to CBC B.C.'s 36 nominations, the organization nominated 18 regional entries from both Global News and CTV News and 11 for CBC Yukon; CityNews saw six entries short-listed.

Ben Nelms/CBC
Ben Nelms/CBC

The region's award winners will be announced on June 15.

Here is the association's full shortlist of finalists in roughly 40 categories, which include audio, online, video, as well as reporting that spans multiple media platforms:

Digital categories

Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)

  • CTV News Vancouver Island – Saanich bank shooting.

Breaking News (Large Market)

  • Global B.C. – Langley shootings.

Excellence in Data Storytelling

Excellence in Social

Excellence in Sports Reporting

  • CityNews Vancouver – Coquitlam Hockey Racism.

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)

Feature News (Large Market)

  • CTV News Vancouver – B.C. family waits 41 hours for ambulance transfer.

  • Global B.C. – Inadmissible. How a U.S. policy is wreaking havoc on the lives of Iranian-Canadians.

News – Live Special Events

Opinion

  • Daily Hive – Economic development into Vancouver culture. 

Overall Excellence in Digital

  • CTV News Vancouver – ctvnewsvancouver.ca.

  • CityNews Vancouver – vancouver.citynews.ca.

  • CBC British Columbia – cbc.ca/bc.

 

Multi-platform categories

Continuing Coverage

  • Global B.C. – B.C.'s reaction to the movement in Iran.

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

Excellence in Innovation

  • 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.   

  • Global B.C. – Lessons from Portland.

Investigative Excellence

  • Global B.C. – Murder Mystery.

 

Audio categories

Best Podcast

  • Rogers Frequency Network – Missing Michael: Island Crime Season 3.

Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)

Breaking News (Large Market)

  • Global B.C. – Langley Shootings.

Excellence in Editing (Small/Medium Market)

Excellence in Editing (Large Market)

Excellence in Sports Reporting

  • CBC Yukon – Pro Soccer Debut.

  • CBC Kamloops – Mama let him play speedball.

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)

  • CBC Yukon – How Landslides Work.

  • CBC Yukon – Suitcase Stories.

Feature News (Large Market)

News – Live Special Events

  • C-FAX 1070 – Election Night 2022: The Capital Region Decides.

  • CBC Yukon – National Indigenous Peoples Day Special.

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

Opinion

  • C-FAX 1070 – Truth Under Siege: Tragedy of the Misled.

  • 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.

  • CBC Kamloops – 630 News: November 8, 2022.

Radio Newscast (Large Market)

  • CityNews 1130 – Snowmageddon Nightmare Commute.

  • CBC Vancouver – Langley Shooting Aftermath.             

 

Video categories

Audio-Visual Storytelling (Small/Medium Market)

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

  • CBC Yukon – Border Celebration.

Breaking News (Small/Medium Market)

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

  • CBC Yukon – Yukon Wildfires.   

Breaking News (Large Market)

  • Global B.C. – RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang.

  • CTV News Vancouver – Snowstorm hits Metro Vancouver.

Excellence in Editing (Small/Medium Market)

Excellence in Editing (Large Market)

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

  • CityNews Vancouver – DTES Tents.

Excellence in Sports Reporting

  • CHEK – Glorious Golf.

  • CTV News Vancouver Island – From Slapshots to Sewing: April 2022.

Excellence in Video

  • Global B.C. – North Shore Rescue.

  • CTV News Vancouver – B.C. family takes off on round-the-world trip.

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)

  • CBC Yukon – Percy Henry: The Last Speaker.

  • CTV News Vancouver Island – 4×4 Hero: January 2022.

Feature News (Large Market)

  • CityNews Vancouver – Book Matcher.

  • CTV News Vancouver – Family Reunion: Ben Miljure connects with Indigenous family.

News – Live Special Events

  • Global B.C. – B.C. Municipal Election: October 15, 2022.

  • CTV News Vancouver – CTV News Election 2022.

Opinion

TV Newscast (Small/Medium Market)

  • CHEK – Saanich Bank Robbery Shootings.

  • 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.

  • CBC Vancouver – CBC Vancouver News at 6p.m. Live in Abbotsford: Six Months Since B.C.'s Devastating Floods.

  • CTV News Vancouver – CTV News at 6.

VJ – Video

  • CBC Yukon – Fort Smith Musher.

  • Global B.C. – Victoria Pickleball Protest.

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