Let's begin with a little bit of history about our association.
RTDNA Canada began as RTNDA in 1962. A few broadcast journalist news directors had been members of the U.S. Radio-Television News Directors Association in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
In 1962 they founded the Canadian RTNDA, and then 49 years later in 2011, we changed our name to Radio Television Digital News Association to keep up with today's technological realities and to open membership in the organization to digital as well as broadcast journalists. This change also broadened the membership criteria to include all working journalists, not only news managers.