CBC Nova Scotia takes home 4 RTDNA awards

CBC Nova Scotia has earned four awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association across the digital and video categories.

Each year, the RTDNAhonours the best in Canadian journalism with awards for each region.

In the East, CBC Nova Scotia's digital team won the continuing coverage award for its body of work covering the Nova Scotia mass killing that claimed the lives of 22 peopleoverApril 18-19 of last year.

Coverage of the massacreand its aftermathbeganApril 19andcontinues to this day as the commission charged with investigating the mass killing announced the participants for a full public inquiry.

Also in the digital category, reporter Taryn Grant won the breaking news award in a small/medium market for hercoverage of the tensions surrounding the First Nations lobster harvest in southwest Nova Scotia.

In October 2020,weeks aftertheSipekne'katik band launched its moderate livelihoodfishery outside of the federally mandated season,several hundred commercial fishermen and their supporters raided two facilities where Mi'kmaw fishermen were storing their catch.

The third win for CBC Nova Scotia in the digital category was the overall excellence in digital award.

In the video category, reporter Elizabeth Chiuwon the feature news award in a small/medium market for herenterprise story about a breast cancer survivor who inspired other women to proudly embrace their bodiespost-mastectomy.

N.S. breast cancer survivor inspires women and finds a bosomless buddy

4 years ago

Duration 6:34

When Christina Belding shared her breast cancer story and flaunted her mastectomy wounds this summer, she gained a huge following and a bosomless buddy a young survivor who gained the confidence to show her own surgically scarred chest.

18awards for CBC Atlantic

CBC Nova Scotia's fourRTDNA awards are among the 18 awards racked up by CBC bureaus in Atlantic Canada.

All seven awards in the digital category were won by CBC bureaus: three in Nova Scotia, two in New Brunswick, and one each in Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Winners from the East region will now compete with winners from the West, Prairies and Central regions for the best Canadian local news awards. National winners will be announced in a virtual conference and gala on June 3.