Global Toronto is a winner again! The News Hour has received three prestigious top awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, the voice of electronic journalists in Canada, plus two honourable mentions for stories broadcast in 2009.
“This is an incredible achievement,” said Ward Smith, Director of News for Global Toronto. “It recognizes the entire news team for its professional broadcast expertise and flawless technical work. We focus daily on providing viewers with the highest quality news programming. These awards make it clear that we deliver.”
There are the winning stories:
Bert Cannings Award—Best Broadcast-Large Market for exclusive coverage and interviews on the day two suspects were arrested for Tori Stafford’s murder in Woodstock.
The Adrienne Clarkson Award for Diversity Programming for the series “˜Our Canada-New Canadians.’ On the day they became Canadian citizens Allison Vuchnich did moving interviews with families from Iraq and Rwanda to find out what brought them to Canada.
The Trina McQueen Award for News Information Program for “˜Focus Ontario-The Ontario Legislature-Our House.’ Global Toronto’s Queen’s Park reporter Sean Mallen took viewers on a fascinating historical tour of the Ontario Legislature building.
In addition, Global Toronto scored these honourable mentions:
The Charlie Edwards Award for Spot News for the story “˜Struck By Lightning’
The Dave Rogers Award for A Short Feature in a Large Market for “˜A Single Rose.’
The awards were presented at a banquet on May 15.
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