These awards, display the most skill in reporting a breaking news event. Two separate entries per entrant may be submitted. An entry consists of the initial breaking news item. Each entry must be accompanied by a short explanation of the story and how it developed. Details should include the story’s chronology and circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation as well as the resources (money/time) available to complete the story.
Evaluation Scale / Main Factors
30% Degree of difficulty – logistical and other challenges in getting and filing the story.
30% Comprehensiveness and quality of information.
30% The quality of writing and presentation.
10% Resources used by the journalists.
These awards display overall excellence in the content and presentation of a broadcast or podcast documentary program which are not regular information programs or daily newscasts. The entry must be a maximum 30-minute, unedited segment of an actual broadcast or podcast documentary. Two separate entries per entrant — including short explanations to enable judges to place them in context — may be submitted.
Evaluation Scale / Main Factors
30% Timeliness of the program.
30% Connection with listeners.
30% Relevance of information for listeners
10% Resources available to the journalist.
These awards display initiative and show enterprise in journalism. Investigative journalism stories are welcome in this category. Continuing coverage of a breaking news event may also be entered here. Judges will look for enterprising journalism that goes beyond the obvious, the ordinary, the expected, and the regular. They will look for journalism that puts issues in context and in perspective and thereby makes those issues make sense. Two separate entries per audio journalist may be submitted. Each entry must be accompanied by a short explanation of the story and how it developed. Details should include the chronology and circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation as well as the resources (money/time) available to complete.
Evaluation Scale / Main Factors
30% Entries which display initiative beyond the obvious, the ordinary, and the expected.
30% Issues are in context and in perspective.
30% The difficulty of the story.
10% Resources used by the journalists.
These awards display excellence and creativity in the presentation of feature or human interest stories with journalistic merit. Two separate entries per entrant may be submitted. The entry can be the original item plus not more than three items, if a series. Each entry should be accompanied by a short explanation of the story and how it developed. Details should include the story’s chronology and circumstances affecting its gathering and presentation as well as the resources (money/time) available to complete the story.
Evaluation Scale / Main Factors
30% The substance of the story.
30% How well the story is told.
30% The treatment, including novelty, drama, human interest, humor, and pathos.
10% Resources used by the journalist.
These awards display overall excellence in the content and presentation of a regularly broadcast news information program, talk radio program, or podcast, which is not a daily newscast. The entry must be a maximum 30-minute, unedited segment of an actual broadcast or podcast.
Two separate entries per entrant — including short explanations to enable judges to place them in context — may be submitted.
Evaluation Scale / Main Factors
30% Timeliness of the program.
30% Connection with listeners.
30% Relevance of information for listeners
10% Resources available to the journalist.
These awards display overall excellence in the content and presentation of a regularly scheduled radio newscast aired on an Atlantic Canada radio station. Judges will look for the newscasts that have the best journalistic merit and which combine spot news, continuing coverage, feature, enterprise reporting, and weather reporting into an informative newscast. One entry per station may be submitted as originally broadcast in Atlantic Canada. The broadcast date is selected by the radio station. Include a short explanation of the entry.
Evaluation Scale / Main Factors
20% Overall presentation.
30% Use of spot, enterprise, continuing coverage, features, weather, sports, and interviews.
