CBC British Columbia wins 24 awards at 2020 Western Region RTDNA Awards

CBC British Columbia has won 24 awards at the 2020 Western Region RTDNA Awards.

The annual awards celebrate the best in journalism in B.C., including radio, television and online news.

The winners were to be announced at a ceremony on March 28 in Vancouver, but the ceremony was cancelled due to COVID-19. 

The CBC British Columbia winners are as follows:

Digital

Breaking news — Charlie Edwards Award

• Northern B.C. Homicides

Continuing coverage — Ron Laidlaw Award

• Meng Wanzhou trial

Data storytelling

• Cash, Cars and Computers: A Year of Administrative Civil Forfeiture in B.C.

Digital media award (large market)

• CBC British Columbia

Digital media award (small/medium market)

• CBC Victoria: digital storytelling
  • 'A chance at life': Salmon fry rescue underway on Vancouver Island
  • Keeping watch
  • Keep it wild, keep it weird

Diversity — Adrienne Clarkson Award

• Syrian refugees vote for the first time as Canadian

Excellence in social media

• Sanctioned: The Arrest of a Telecom Giant
  • 5G Explained
  • Huawei's CFO is a wanted woman
  • Reddit AMA
  • Facebook Live with Jason Proctor and Stephen Quinn
  • Twitter videos

News: live special events — Gord Sinclair Award

• Climate Strike in Vancouver
  • Live blog
  • Instagram gallery
  • Timelapse video on Twitter

Multiplatform

Excellence in innovation

• Killers

Original/enterprise

• Paramedic access concerns
  • Ambulance crew took 35 minutes to get into apartment of dying woman
  • To mark a mother's death, cookies, gloves and a message of hope on the Downtown Eastside

Radio

Continuing coverage — Ron Laidlaw award

• Fentanyl deaths: Do we need a safe supply of drugs?

Diversity — Adrienne Clarkson award

• Matheson

Excellence in sound — Dick Smyth award

• Killers: J-Pod on the brink

Long feature — Dave Rogers award (large market)

• Jessica's secret

Long feature — Dave Rogers award (small/medium market)

• CBC Kamloops: 100 Yew Street

News — live special events — Gord Sinclair award

• Despair, addiction, poverty: When is enough enough? A CBC town hall from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Radio news information program — Peter Gzowski award

• CBC Kelowna – Radio West, Recovery: stories from the ashes

Short feature — Dave Rogers award (large market)

• Still Standing: Sunrise Tofu

Short feature — Dave Rogers award (small/medium market)

• CBC Prince George – From top cop to beekeeper

Sports — feature reporting

• CBC Kamloops — Rugby hen

Television

Diversity — Adrienne Clarkson award

• Learning language of Ucwalmícwts to connect to her Lil'wat identity

Excellence in video — Hugh Haugland award

• Vancouver street names: quirky, random facts behind the names you know

Long feature — Dave Rogers award (large market)

• Growing vegan

TV news information program — Trina McQueen award

• Our Vancouver: The tech industry