The finalists for the RTDNAC Student Awards have been announced! See the full list of student and professional finalists!
Winners will be announced during the 2024 RTDNAC Awards Luncheon on Nov. 9, 2024, at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Finalists and their guests are welcome at the event. Everyone who plans to attend the event needs to register via this link.
Registration is $25 for students and $55 for non-students.
The deadline to register is Oct. 20, 2024.
Registration is now open for the 2024 RTDNAC Awards Luncheon to be held Nov. 9, 2024, at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. More details, including this year’s guest speaker, will be announced in the coming days!
Everyone who plans to attend the event needs to register via this link.
Registration is $25 for students and $55 for non-students.
The deadline to register is Oct. 20, 2024.
RTDNAC is pleased to announce the professional finalists in the 2024 RTDNAC Awards Competition, which recognizes the best of professional and student broadcast work in TV, radio and digital media.
Student finalists will be announced in the coming weeks.
See the full list of finalists
Winners will be announced at an awards luncheon on Nov. 9 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Details and registration link coming soon!
Registration is now open for the 2023 RTDNAC/AP Awards Ceremony on Nov. 11, 2023 at The Speedway Club at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Morgan Radford, a correspondent for NBC News and anchor for NBC News NOW based in New York City. She is originally from Greensboro, N.C.
Register to attend this year’s awards. The deadline to register is Nov. 1, 2023.
Morgan co-anchors “NBC News Daily,” a daily news program from 12-2pm ET, and her reporting frequently appears on TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Noticias Telemundo and MSNBC.
Since joining NBC News in 2015, Radford has covered the country’s biggest stories including the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on low-income communities, and America’s racial reckoning following the 2020 shooting death of George Floyd. Her coverage of the immigration debate over the U.S. southern border was part of the MSNBC “Border Special” nominated for a 2020 “News Discussion and Analysis” Emmy Award. Radford also won the 2020 Gracie Award for National TV News On-Air Talent.
Prior to joining NBC News, Morgan was an anchor for Al Jazeera America and previously worked for ABC News at their headquarters in New York City.
Morgan received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and a Fulbright Fellowship from the United States State Department, where she spent one year teaching in Durban, South Africa. Radford is fluent in Spanish and was certified by the French Chamber of Commerce for business proficiency in French. She currently serves on the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s Board of Visitors (J’10).
The 2023 RTDNAC Awards are preparing to accept entries for this year’s competition.
The entry period opens Thursday, June 1. The entry deadline is 8 p.m. Monday, July 17 for professionals and 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11 for students.
The awards will be announced at a banquet at the Charlotte Motorspeedway Club in November.
The 2022 RTDNAC Awards were presented on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022, at The Speedway Club at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.
This year’s featured speaker was Network TV Correspondent Debra Alfarone, who has won Edward R. Murrow and Emmy awards for her work reporting from the White House and U.S Capitol for CBS News.
Details for this year’s RTDNAC/AP annual awards luncheon and convention have been announced!
On Nov. 12, media professionals and journalism students will be honored for the best in broadcast journalism in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Register for the luncheon via this link
This year’s featured speaker is Network TV Correspondent Debra Alfarone, who has won Edward R. Murrow and Emmy awards for her work reporting from the White House and U.S Capitol for CBS News. A former high school dropout, her mission in life is to empower and inspire people to use their voices powerfully. Debra has worked as an anchor at WUSA9 in Washington, D.C., and as a reporter at PIX 11 News in New York City and NBC Connecticut in Hartford, Connecticut.
Convention and Luncheon details
Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022
The Speedway Club, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, N.C.
$40 per person ($20 discount for current students). Online registration and payment required by Tuesday, Nov. 1. Note: On-site registration and payments will not be accepted. Payments by check cannot be accepted.
For more information, contact RTDNAC.
9 a.m. Check-in and networking
9:30 a.m. Convention with featured speaker Network TV Correspondent Debra Alfarone, and the panel discussion, “How to Survive and Thrive in Today’s Newsroom”
11:30 a.m. Awards Luncheon
The finalists for the 2022 RTDNAC Awards have been announced.
There were more than 570 entries in the professional division this year from a variety of stations in North and South Carolina.
The student finalists will be announced in the coming days.
Winners will be awarded during a luncheon at Charlotte Motorspeedway on Nov. 12.
RTDNAC is pleased to announce its 2022 awards competition, recognizing the best of TV, radio and website work in North Carolina and South Carolina.
We are currently accepting entries for the student competition.
The deadline to enter has been extended to Monday, Sept. 12.
By Dennis Milligan
Life in 2020, especially as it relates to COVID-19, forced many changes in how we go about our lives and our business of broadcast and digital journalism. The same was true for the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas’ annual award presentation. Normally held at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, this year’s awards were presented during a digital conference on Nov. 14.
RTDNAC President Laurabree Monday welcomed participants saying, “We know this is a strange year. We still hope you enjoy this (digital) event. We very much hope to be back at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in 2021.”
The awards presentation started with keynote thoughts from CNN National Correspondent, Dianne Gallagher, who is now based in Charlotte. She welcomed participants, noting, “This has been one hell of a year and every single one of you deserves to celebrate your accomplishments.”
Gallagher talked about her journey from CN2 News in Rock Hill, to CNN. She had words of encouragement for the digital gathering, as both students and professionals grapple with the current pandemic. “COVID-19 elevated everything. It elevated the need for you, your diligent effort to get the truth to people. At the same time it made doing that so much more difficult.”
“You were often risking your own physical health and mental health to make sure the rest of your community knew what was really happening,” she added.
The awards presentation also featured Rachel Ellis, a reporter for ABC 4 News in Charleston, S.C. Her comments addressed college students in their last year of journalism school. “I was in your shoes a little over a year ago.” “No one could have predicted the curve ball of 2020, it became quickly apparent to me that our jobs have never been so important for the communities we serve.”
As much as things have changed in 2020, CNN’s Gallagher noted that much remained the same for broadcast and digital journalists. “My life has changed, but the basics of building relationships, demanding accountability, telling stories, that hasn’t.”