16×9 wins four RTDNA awards including best investigative, best use of video, best feature and best show

16×9 has been recognized once again for outstanding journalism, winning four Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards this weekend.

For the second year in a row, 16×9 won both the Dave Rogers Award for best Long Feature and Hugh Haugland award for creative use of video. Both were awarded for 16×9’s feature “High Drama”.

“Our quality of production is without question the highest, in my view, in news and current affairs programming in the country,” says Executive Producer, Laurie Few.

16×9 also won the Trina McQueen Award for best News Information Program for “Lost Childhood” and the Dan McArthur Award for best In-depth/Investigative for their exposure of Health Canada’s medical marijuana program in “Smoke and Mirrors”.

“What we’ve showed in this past season is we can do that too. Not only are we the show that has great creative force and comes up with new and original ways of telling stories, we’ve also proven that we can do the hard news stories, the investigative stories,” says Few.

“It’s that feeling of success. It’s that feeling of having inspiration. We have been working really, really, really hard in the past two years to become this show.”

16×9’s Chief Correspondent, Carolyn Jarvis agrees the work that the team at 16×9 has been putting in is really paying off.

“We are a modest group. We’re not an army of people putting this show together. We’re a close-knit crew of only a dozen or so people who are passionate about the work that they do and I think that reflects on screen,” she says.

Few says winning best show is a huge boost and shows we’re better than ever before.

“It’s a great feeling, I’m proud of my team, I’m proud of Global but then I’m like, okay, enough partying, let’s roll up our sleeves and do it again,” says Few.