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2024 RTDNAC Awards Competition

RTDNAC is pleased to announce the winners for the 2024 awards competition, recognizing the best of TV, radio and website work in North Carolina and South Carolina.

The 2024 RTDNAC Awards were presented on Nov. 9, 2024, during a luncheon at The Speedway Club at Charlotte Motor Speedway. 

2024 RTDNAC Award Winners

Radio

RADIO

Breaking News

First Place: North Carolina Public Radio WUNC – UNC-Chapel Hill Shooting

First Place:  WFAE 90.7 – Four officers killed serving warrant in Charlotte – Nick de la Canal, Kenneth Lee, Jr., Lisa Worf, Woody Cain, Ely Portillo

Second Place: WPTF – UNC Shooting, Aug. 28, 2023 – Bruce Ferrell, Anthony DeHart, Jeff Hamlin

Community Impact

First Place: WHQR Public Media – “The water still isn’t safe” – Nikolai Mather

Second Place: WHQR Public Media – Rarely seen whale species died on Emerald Isle after swallowing mylar balloon – Rachel Keith

Consumer/Economic

First Place: WUNC – 66-year-old small town department store to close – 

Colin Campbell

Second Place: WHQR – Perspectives: An economic update for the Cape Fear area – Kelly Kenoyer

Education

First place: WFAE 90.7 – CMS goes door-to-door to get students back in class – Ann Doss Helms

Second Place: North Carolina Public Radio WUNC – UNCG professor worries if her job will survive cuts – Brianna Atkinson

First Place: NCN News – Ain’t too proud – DPAC – Gayle Hurd

Second Place: WHQR Public Media – NPR’s Bobby Carter talks 2024 Tiny Desk Contest – Nikolai Mather

General News

First Place: WFAE 90.7 – Illegal weed, legal high: Confusion in NC laws – Steve Harrison

Second Place: WHQR Public Media – One year after the Pulp Road wildfire, Green Swamp Preserve has bounced back even better – Kelly Kenoyer

 

Hard News Feature

First Place: 97.9 The Hill (WCHL) – UNC grapples with loss, trauma after Monday’s shooting – Brighton McConnell

Second Place: WUNC-FM – Finding families to accept soldiers’ remains – Jay Price

Health-Medicine

First Place: WHQR – How Pender County used opioid settlement money to purchase DARE-branded sheriff’s office vehicles – Nikolai Mather

Investigative

First Place: North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC – Out of Sight: An investigation into North Carolina’s PRTFs

Second Place: WHQR Public Media – A closer look at NHCS parents’ groups, and the significant differences in their fundraising capacity – Rachel Keith

Light Feature

First Place: WFAE 90.7 – Meet VanVan, the 5-year-old rap sensation – Nick de la Canal

Long-Form Interview

First Place: WCHL – I promised my sister I would write about how she chose to die – Aaron Keck

Second Place: WPTF – Remembering Jack Johnson – Jon Champion

Outstanding News Operation

First Place: WHQR
Second Place: WPTF

Podcast (Long)

First Place: WUNC’s Embodied ‘Mixed’ Podcast Episode – Anita Rao, Kaia Findlay, Amanda Magnus, Paige Perez, Jenni Lawson

Second Place: 99.9 The Fan – A Brief History of Triangle Sports | NC Sports Betting – Brian Murphy, Tim Donnelly, Anita Normanly, Doug Miller, Graham Hill

Political/Election

First Place: WUNC – Election Integrity Bill Linked to 2020 Election Deniers – 

Rusty Jacobs

Second Place: WFAE 90.7 – Mark Harris makes a stunning congressional comeback – Steve Harrison

Radio News Block

First Place: 97.9 The Hill (WCHL) – The Morning News: UNC Campus Clash and Arrests – Aaron Keck, Brighton McConnell, Michael Koh

 

Series

First Place: WHQR – New Hanover County Schools Turnaround Task Force – Rachel Keith

Social Reform

First Place: WFAE 90.7 – Workers at risk in extreme heat; NC has no protections – Kayla Young, David Boraks

Second Place: WHQR Public Media – On the street with cops, social workers, and homeless people in a time of uncertainty – Kelly Kenoyer

Special Report

First Place: WHQR Public Media – Special Report on the Mosley School closing – Benjamin Schachtman, Rachel Keith, Kelly Kenoyer, Camille Mojica

Second Place: NCN News – President Biden’s Speech On Wars

Sports

First Place: NCN News – U.S. Open 2024 at Pinehurst  – Chris Edwards

Second Place: North Carolina Public Radio WUNC – HBCUs use video games to increase diversity in esports – Brianna Atkinson