CBC Ontario newsrooms win 9 RTDNA awards, celebrating excellence in journalism
Digital, television, radio teams all received honours
CBC newsrooms across Ontario have won nine RTDNA awards, which honour the best journalism created on radio, television and digital outlets in Canada.
The winning stories tackled issues that ranged from police carding to a family's experience as its child transitioned from one gender to another.
Digital
CBC Toronto won the Ron Laidlaw Award for continuing coverage for the the digital desk's in-depth social coverage of the Blue Jays' post season run in October, which captured the excitement of a city seeing its team make the playoffs for the first time in 22 years.
CBC Hamilton won the Adrienne Clarkson Award — Diversity — for its digital coverage on the controversial practice of carding in that city, a police tactic widely criticized as a form of racial profiling.
Radio
CBC Toronto: Metro Morning won the Adrienne Clarkson Award — Diversity — for Fathering Change This piece featured a panel of African-Canadian fathers who spoke to CBC's Metro Morning about wanting to play a bigger part in their children's lives.
CBC Toronto won the Byron MacGregor Award (Large Market) — Best Newscast — for its Oct. 20 CBC Toronto Radio Newscast, for its coverage of the federal election that saw a sweeping Liberal majority.
CBC Sudbury won the Dave Rogers Award (Small/Medium Market) — Short Feature — for its piece Helping a Marathon.
CBC Sudbury won the Dave Rogers Award (Small/Medium Market) — Long Feature — for its Angels and Demons piece about an arresting nature photograph.
CBC Ottawa won the Dave Rogers Award (Large Market) — Long Feature — for its sensitive coverage of a family speaking out about their child's transition to another gender.
CBC Sudbury won the Sports Award (Small/Medium Market) for a piece about a rope-skipping group that meets every week.
Television
Trina McQueen Award – Television News Information Program — CBC Toronto — Our Toronto Nov. 21., which included an interview with the women in Montreal Canadiens superstar's P. K. Subban's life.