CBC B.C. earns 40 nominations for 2020 Western Region RTDNA Awards

CBC British Columbia has received 40 nominations for the 2020 Western Region RTDNA Awards.

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

Winners will be announced at the regional awards ceremony on March 28 in Vancouver. 

Digital

Best podcast

• Sanctioned: The Arrest of a Telecom Giant.

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

• Rescued by a Maharaja
• 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

Opinion and commentary — Sam Ross Award

• The problem with the Lions Gate Bridge

Multiplatform

Dejero award for best technical innovation

• CBC Victoria – On the Island goes on the mountain

Excellence in innovation

• Killers

Investigative - Dan McArthur award

• Professional health colleges

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

• Unbroken

  • 'I felt robbed': Indigenous mother says baby's apprehension was wrong

  • 'Judged and ashamed': Indigenous parents describe scrutiny, mistrust of social workers

Radio

Continuing coverage — Ron Laidlaw award

• Struggling to Survive: Thousands of workers impacted as B.C. mills shut down across the province
• Fentanyl deaths: Do we need a safe supply of drugs?

Diversity — Adrienne Clarkson award

• Matheson

Excellence in sound — Dick Smyth award

• CBC Prince George – Refuge at the mall: Wildfire smoke driving Canadians to create 'clean air shelters'
• 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

Opinion and commentary — Sam Ross award

• New normal

Radio news information program — Peter Gzowski award

• CBC Kelowna – Radio West, Recovery: stories from the ashes
•  A Canadian Genocide: the MMIWG final report

Radio newscast — Byron MacGregor award (large market)

• Bus strike averted

Radio newscast — Byron MacGregor award (small/medium market)

• Parkcrest School Fire

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
• CBC Prince Rupert – Prince Rupert's sneaker fiend

Television

Diversity – Adrienne Clarkson award

• Learning language of Ucwalmícwts to connect to her Lil'wat identity
• Celebrating 100 years of acceptance in Vancouver Island ghost town

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

Opinion and commentary – Sam Ross award

• But where are you really from? A seemingly simple question, with a complicated answer

TV news information program – Trina McQueen award

• Our Vancouver: The tech industry

TV newscast — Bert Cannings Award (large market)

• CBC Vancouver News at 6