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CBC journalists in Quebec recognized with 2 national RTDNA awards

CBC teams in Quebec have won two national awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association: CBC Montreal for best overall website, and Quebec AM for its radio coverage of the death of Jacques Parizeau.

Honours go to CBC Montreal for best website, Quebec AM for outstanding radio coverage

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Kim McNairn (left), CBC Montreal's senior digital lineup editor, and Susan Campbell, host of Quebec AM on CBC Radio, hold up their RTDNA awards. (CBC)

CBC teams in Quebec have taken home two national awards, including best overall website, from the Canadian Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).

The RTDNA awards honour the best journalists and news-gathering organizations on radio, television and digital platforms across Canada.

The awards were handed out in Toronto this weekend.

Here are CBC Quebec's winners:

Quebec AM's radio coverage of Jacques Parizeau's death (left), and CBC Montreal's website - including stories about the closing of the old Children's Hospital and a lookback on the 1990 Mohawk standoff - won national RTDNA awards. (CP/CBC)

Digital Media – Large Market

For the second year in a row, CBC Montreal was recognized as the best overall website with the Digital Media — Large Market award.

This prize is awarded to the news organization that makes the best use of new media technology in the presentation of its news coverage, based on editorial excellence, design, navigation and engagement.

The judges considered the following stories from 2015 for the award:

INTERACTIVE: Heartache and Hope: Memories of the Montreal Children's Hospital

IN DEPTH: How much did Flushgate really contaminate the St. Lawrence River?

TIMELINE: The Oka Crisis: 78 days of civil unrest

The waters of the St. Lawrence River flow past the city of Montreal, November 11, 2015, during a dump of raw effluent necessitated by sewer system repairs. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)

Peter Gzowski Award – News Information Program – Radio

Former premier Jacques Parizeau at his home in Bromont, Que. in 2003. (Jacques Nadeau)
Susan Campbell is the host of Quebec AM. (CBC)

Quebec AM won the Peter Gzowski Award for its radio coverage the morning that the death of former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau became public.

Quebec AM is hosted by Susan Campbell.

Reporter/editor Catou MacKinnon, researcher/columnist Glenn Wanamaker, technician Karl Vincent and CBC's political affairs analyst Bernard St. Laurent contributed to the coverage.

You can listen to the broadcast here:

0:01Jacques Parizeau, Quebec's 26th premier, is dead
Quebec AM discusses Parizeau's legacy the morning Quebecers learned of his death.

Recognition at the regional RTDNA awards

Earlier this year, CBC in Quebec also won a number of regional RTNDA awards.

You can read more about those honours and rediscover the winning entries here:

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