CBC Atlantic journalists among RTDNA Awards East Region finalists

CBC journalists from each Atlantic province are among East Region finalists for the RTDNA Awards recognizing excellence in digital and broadcast journalism.

Regional award winners will be announced on June 4

CBC Communications · Posted: May 23, 2025 5:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: May 24

CBC journalists from each Atlantic province are among East Region finalists for the RTDNA Awards recognizing excellence in digital and broadcast journalism.

RTDNA Canada Awards honour the best journalists, programs, platforms, stations, and newsgathering organizations in audio, digital and video.

Regional award winners will be announced on June 4.

2025 RTDNA Awards East Region Finalists

AUDIO

Best Podcast
CBC P.E.I. – Could PEI's trains get back on track?

Excellence in Editing
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – Are N.L. accents dying? No, b'y — but they are changing

Excellence in Sports Reporting
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – Lewisporte Women's Hockey League Grows

A young woman with Down syndrome smiles at the camera in front of colourful designs on the rack. — Marie Webb, a Halifax designer who has Down syndrome, describes her work as 'colourful, joyful, comfortable, soft, practical, [and] creative.' (Dave Irish/CBC)

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Atlantic – Marie, the fashion queen
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – Georgina's Law

News – Live Special Events
CBC New Brunswick – Information Morning New Brunswick Eclipse Show
CBC Cape Breton – Information Morning Cape Breton Record Breaking Winter Storm
CBC P.E.I. – Island Morning Ferry Remote Show

DIGITAL

A woman with a bob haircut wearing glasses looks to the left. She is standing in front of a window. — In April 2024, 32-year-old Olivia Polk was working with the affordable housing support non-profit Welcome Housing in Halifax, N.S. She said her wages have not kept up with inflation over the past few years. Polk and her co-workers recently unionized their workplace with SEIU2. She has since been let go from her job. (Andrew Lam/CBC)

Excellence in Data Storytelling
CBC Nova Scotia – How inflation took a bite out of workers' wages
CBC Atlantic I-Unit – Police and Public Trust – CBC Atlantic I-Unit

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Nova Scotia – Fighting for Care

A person with pigtails holds a garden tool. A garden can be seen in the background. — Erin Gillespie threw herself into homesteading in 2016. (Submitted by Erin Gillespie)

Opinion
CBC P.E.I. – I left Charlottetown for a rural homestead and it changed my idea of work-life balance and food

Overall Excellence in Digital
CBC P.E.I. – CBC P.E.I.

MULTIPLATFORM

A man stands inside a makeshift jail cell, with one hand wrapped around the bars on the window. — Jack Whalen built a replica of the solitary confinement cell he was kept in at the Whitbourne Boys' Home from 1973 to 1977. (Ryan Cooke/CBC)

Continuing Coverage (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – Jack's Law A man's fight to change N.L.'s Limitations Act
CBC Atlantic – Investigative Unit, CBC NL – A Darkness on the Edge of Town

Enterprise Journalism (Small Medium Market)
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – Hot air, broken promises

Excellence in Innovation, Sponsored by Dejero
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – The Other Side of the Fence

Investigative Excellence

Why homeowners wish they'd shut the door on this water treatment company

1 year ago

8:03

CBC Nova Scotia – Who's at your door? Water company concerns revealed
CBC P.E.I. – P.E.I. podiatrist facing questions over what credentials he has for the job

VIDEO

Audio-Visual Storytelling
CBC New Brunswick – High seas, high tides, high pressure: Meet the tugs of Saint John Harbour

Excellence in Video
CBC Nova Scotia – Saying goodbye to April
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – What is loneliness?
CBC New Brunswick – Beloved Bricklins

Feature News (Small/Medium Market)
CBC Atlantic Investigative Unit, CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – He Just Never Came Home
CBC Nova Scotia – 100 years of friendship: Yarmouth's Jewish-Lebanese connection
CBC St. John's – Russian Acrobats Return Russians thank their Newfoundland Mom

TV Newscast (Small/Medium Market)
CBC P.E.I. – CBC TV Compass

VJ – Video
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador – It started as a family garden – but this Nain couple wants to grow food for the community

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