VANCOUVER – RTDNA Canada will recognize two individuals in the British Columbia region with lifetime achievement awards next week.
Global BC’s John Daly and CBC’s Cecilia Walters will be honoured on April 22 during the BC Regional Meeting. The organization says that the duo have distinguished themselves through outstanding service and continued excellence during the course of their careers in journalism and news management.
John Daly (pictured right) is one of British Columbia’s best journalists, in any medium, reads the announcement. In over 35 years with BCTV and then Global BC, he broke some of the province’s biggest stories, from the night police executed a search warrant at the home of a BC Premier to his reporting on the worst gang violence in the province’s history. He is a reporter’s reporter with a strong sense of story and the ability to root out what some may have wanted to hide.
Cecilia Walters’ career in broadcast journalism spreads over four decades. From early days in eastern Canada, Walters (pictured below) spent time with the CTV network, but after relocating to Vancouver, most of her career was spent in front of a camera or behind a microphone at the CBC. She is best known for co-anchoring CBC’s local news in the 1980’s and for almost 20 years as the anchor of CBC Radio’s local morning newscasts.
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