CBC Toronto wins 2 national awards for Jays coverage, local radio newscast
CBC Sudbury scores 2 RTDNA wins, while The National's Peter Mansbridge gets lifetime achievement award
CBC Toronto has won two national reporting awards, one for its social media coverage of the 2015 summer Blue Jays run and the other for the local radio newscast covering the federal election on Oct. 20.
CBC Sudbury took home two awards for its features and sports coverage.
Peter Mansbridge, CBC News's chief correspondent and anchor for The National, snagged a lifetime achievement award, the highest honour of the evening.
"Stories change minds. They change opinions, they change lives. That's what journalism can do." <a href="https://twitter.com/petermansbridge">@petermansbridge</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RTDNA2016?src=hash">#RTDNA2016</a>
—@brodiefenlonThe awards, handed out by the Radio Television Digital News Association, recognize excellence in Canadian journalism on all platforms — digital, radio and television.
The Ron Laidlaw Award for continuing coverage was handed to CBC Toronto's social media team, who tirelessly covered the Jays' exciting post-season run last summer.
The Byron MacGregor Award for best radio newscast in a large market went to CBC Toronto's radio broadcast on Oct. 20 for its coverage of the federal election that resulted in a Liberal majority government.
CBC Sudbury's Markus Schwabe, host of Morning North, won the Dave Rogers Long Feature for Radio the feature Angels and Demons about an arresting nature photograph.
Sudbury reporter Martha Dillman won a sports award for a piece about a rope-skipping group that meets every week.
The awards were handed out at the Shangri-La hotel in Toronto on Saturday.
CBC Toronto also won nine RTDNA awards for the Central region of Canada in April.