CBC News and CBC Radio One were honoured this week with 40 awards across television, radio and online platforms. Awards were handed out at the June 3 Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) Awards, along with the June 6 Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) Awards and the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Awards.
Awards were received in the following categories:
CJF Awards—Wednesday, June 3, 2015
William Southam Journalism Fellowships (CBC Radio-Canada Fellowship)
Jennifer Moroz, executive producer of CBC Radio One’s The Current
CAJ Awards—Saturday, June 6, 2015
Open Broadcast News - CBC News: The National - Foreign Workers - McJobs: Enza Uda, Kathy Tomlinson, Robb Douglas
CWA Canada / CAJ Award for Labour Reporting—CBC News: World Report and CBC Radio’s The Current - Rail Fatigue—Carla Turner, Dave Seglins, Gord Westmacott, Heather Evans, Jeremy MacDonald, John Nicol
Community Broadcast - CBC News: Edmonton—Aura of Power—Charles Rusnell, JennieRussell. Plus Don McGillivray Award for Investigative Journalism.
RTNDA Awards—Saturday, June 6
NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS
DIGITAL
CHARLIE EDWARDS AWARD - Spot News - a Family Disappears - The Liknes-O’Brien Case and the Man Charged with Murder, CBC Calgary
DAN MCARTHUR AWARD - In-depth/Investigative - Polytechnique: Remember the 14 / Polytechnique Shooting 25th Anniversary, CBC Montreal
DIGITAL MEDIA AWARD - Large market - CBC Montreal website, CBC Montreal
RON LAIDLAW AWARD - Continuing Coverage - The Alberta Flood: One Year Later - The Five People We Lost, CBC Calgary
RADIO
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Short Feature - Small/Medium - Girl from Away, CBC Prince Edward Island
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Short Feature - Large Market - All in the Family, CBC Vancouver’s The Early Edition
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Long Feature - Small/Medium market - Motels of the Okanagan, CBC Kelowna
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Long Feature - Large market - Homecoming in Heart’s Desire, CBC Edmonton
DAN MCARTHUR AWARD - In-depth/Investigative - Aura of Power, CBC Edmonton
DICK SMYTH AWARD - Creative Use of Sound - Beatles in Vancouver 1964, CBC Vancouver’s The Early Edition
PETER GZOWSKI AWARD - Radio News Information Program - Shooting in the Capital: The Morning After, CBC Ottawa’s Ottawa Morning
RON LAIDLAW AWARD - Continuing Coverage - Moncton Shootings, CBC New Brunswick
SPORTS AWARD - Small/Medium Market - The Fight of a Lifetime, CBC Kamloops
SPORTS AWARD - Large Market - Never too old - The 101-year-old javelin thrower, CBC Calgary
TELEVISION
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Long Feature - Small/Medium Market - A Day in the Life of Nova Scotia, CBC Nova Scotia
DAN MCARTHUR AWARD - In-depth/Investigative-Aura of Power, CBC Edmonton
NETWORK AWARD WINNERS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT - Linden MacIntyre
DIGITAL
CHARLIE EDWARDS AWARD - Spot News - Parliament Hill shooting, A day of chaos leaves soldier, gunman dead, CBCNews.ca
RON LAIDLAW AWARD - Continuing Coverage - Ebola crisis: On the ground in Liberia, CBCNews.ca
RADIO
BYRON MACGREGOR AWARD - Best Newscast - Parliament Hill Shooting show CBC News: World at Six
CHARLIE EDWARDS AWARD - Spot News - Parliament Shooting CBC News: World Report
DAN MCARTHUR AWARD - In-depth/Investigative - Rail Fatigue in Canada, CBC News
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Short Feature - Teenage Self, CBC News:World at Six
GORD SINCLAIR AWARD - Live Special Events - Parliament Shooting Special, CBC News: World Report and The Current, CBC Radio One
RON LAIDLAW AWARD - Continuing Coverage- Canada and Syrian Refugees - Promises made, promises kept? CBC News
PETER GZOWSKI AWARD - Radio News Information Program—Diagnosis: Dementia, The Current, CBC Radio One
DICK SMYTH AWARD - Creative Use of Sound—‘Cyborg’ hears colours he cannot see, The Current, CBC Radio One
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Long Feature—A Divisive Device, The Current, CBC Radio One.
ADRIENNE CLARKSON AWARD - Diversity —Honourable Mention—Race Relations, CBC News: World at Six
TELEVISION
ADRIENNE CLARKSON AWARD - Diversity —Return on Disability, CBC News: The National
DAN MCARTHUR AWARD - In-depth/Investigative—Foreign Workers McJobs, CBC Vancouver
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Long Feature—April 15—12 Seconds in Boston CBC News: The National
DAVE ROGERS AWARD - Short Feature—Silver Cross Mother, CBC News: The National
RON LAIDLAW AWARD - Continuing Coverage - Canadian Jihadis, CBC News:The National
2015 - EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS
Breaking News Award for Large Market Television - Ottawa shooting, CBC Toronto -
Investigative Reporting Award for Large Market Radio - Aura of Power, CBC Edmonton
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