SASKATOON – RTDNA Canada will recognize two individuals in the Prairie region with lifetime achievement awards on Saturday.
Geoff Currier and Cecil Rosner will be presented with their RTDNA Canada Lifetime Achievement Awards during the Prairies Regional Meeting on April 6, 2019.
Geoff Currier (right) left Ottawa in 1986 to become the play-by-play man for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the people at CKRM took a chance on him. He spent the next 12 seasons calling Riders games and serving as CKRM's sports director. He was also TSN's Saskatchewan correspondent for that same period. In 1997 he made the move to CJOB Winnipeg as the host of Prime Time Sports before reinventing himself as a talk show host in the early 2000's. He and has been a mainstay on CJOB ever since, and four years ago took over the coveted slot once occupied by the legendary Peter Warren, and later, Charles Adler.
Cecil Rosner (below) has been an award-winning journalist in Canada for four decades and has devoted his career to reporting and supervising investigative journalism projects and teams, including the I-Team in Winnipeg. He has won Michener and Gemini Awards for his journalism, medals from the New York and Columbus Film Festivals, along with many other distinctions. He's a teacher, champion and author of investigative work such as ‘Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada’ and ‘When Justice Fails: The David Milgaard Story’. He was the managing editor in Manitoba until last year and is now the director of investigative for all regions at CBC. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Winnipeg where he teaches investigative journalism and was the main organizer of an international conference on investigative journalism in Winnipeg in 2014.
Details and registration information for the event are available here.
