C B C . C A A r t s - F u l l S t o r y : --------------------------------- CBC's Arsenault wins public broadcasting award Last Updated Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:58:28 EST CBC Arts CBC journalist Adrienne Arsenault is among the winners at the 2006 Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Awards. CBC News journalist Adrienne Arsenault has won the first ever Journalist of the Year Award from the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. Arsenault, the Middle East bureau chief for CBC News, has won the first-ever CBA Journalist of the Year Award, which honours exceptional journalistic achievement over the past year. In addition to covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Jerusalem-based Arsenault also covered stories such as the death of Pope John Paul II and the aftermath of the Asian tsunami in 2005. She has won prizes from the New York Film and Video festival and the Columbus Film Festival. The CBA winners were announced Thursday in Delhi, India, at the public broadcasting group's general conference. The CBC News feature A War in Words: An Iraqi Family Diary also took a prize at this year's awards. The video piece, which follows the life of an engineering student and blogger living in Iraq, was named exceptional news feature. Other winners include: National Indian network Doordarshan, which won an award for programs focussing on development issues for From Fallows to Food Baskets. The broadcaster was also recognized with a children's program award for Joymoti, a show about a little girl that promotes education. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which won the award for human rights programming for A Knife's Edge, a radio show that explored women and children in detention. India's New Delhi Television, which won an innovative engineering award. Based in London, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association includes more than 100 public service broadcasters from the Commonwealth, including the U.K., Canada, South Africa and India. Copyright ©2006 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - All Rights Reserved --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.