CTV Atlantic wins national award for feature about homelessness

CTV Atlantic’s Kayla Hounsell, George Reeves and Steve Gomes received a national award on Saturday night for their feature about homelessness in Halifax.

CTV Atlantic won the award for best short television feature in a small/medium market at the Radio Television Digital News Association awards in Toronto Saturday night. The story was produced by CTV Atlantic senior anchor and executive editor Steve Murphy.

In a Tweet Saturday night, Hounsell said she was honoured by the award.

"I am lucky to work with some of the best in the business at CTV Atlantic,” Hounsell said. “I'm so thankful for their commitment to journalistic excellence each and every day, but my greatest thanks goes to the brave people willing to speak up about homelessness, and to the RTDNA for recognizing the value in hearing their voices."

CTV National News also won top honours for best network television newscast, best large-market local television newscast and the top digital media award.

For the fourth consecutive year, “CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme” took home the Bert Cannings Award for Best Network Television Newscast at the RTDNA awards. CTV News Toronto also took home the honours for best large-market local television newscast, and CTVNews.ca won the digital media award.

The awards, presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association Saturday night, were handed out at the annual conference of Canada’s electronic journalists and news managers.

Long-time CTV National News anchor Lloyd Robertson was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The veteran broadcaster was honoured for his more than six decades of work in the industry, along with former CBC journalist Linden MacIntyre, who was also presented with the award.

Wendy Freeman, President of CTV News, was presented with the President's Award for demonstrating journalistic integrity and upholding the RTDNA Code of Ethics. She shared the award with two others.

In addition, Lis Travers, Vice-President of CTV News and Executive Producer of CANADA AM, was presented the Distinguished Service Award, honouring her outstanding contributions in advancing electronic journalism and RTDNA.

Full list of CTV News and Bell Media winners