Newton resident wins Regional Edward R. Murrow Award
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GBH News reporter and Newton resident Craig LeMoult, was awarded a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
GBH News, a public media outlet in Boston, was awarded a total of six Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Awarded by the Radio Television Digital News Association, the Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards pay tribute to important and high-impact local journalism and are among the most prestigious awards in the news industry. Regional winners automatically advance to the national Edward R. Murrow Awards, which are expected to be announced in July.
“During a year when reporters have faced intense challenges, including navigating and covering a global pandemic, racial reckoning and a deeply divided political season, GBH News journalists consistently delivered high quality, contextualized and distinctive local news stories,” said Pam Johnston, general manager of GBH News. “The exceptional work done across ou
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Dear Chairwoman Rosenworcel,
I write today on behalf of the hundreds of network and local broadcast and digital journalist members of the Radio Television Digital News Association respectfully to request you reject a request for a Federal Communications Commission investigation into the news content of reports by WBFF-TV, Baltimore, Md., as submitted by the office of Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby on May 5, 2021.
In the letter, Ms. Mosby’s communications director alleges WBFF-TV engaged in news coverage it characterizes as “blatantly slanted, dishonest, misleading, racist, and extremely dangerous.” Yet a complete review of the links to WBFF-TV stories into Ms. Mosby’s activities as a public official – as detailed in her own communications director’s letter to the Commission – clearly provides no evidence to support such assertions. To the contrary, they reveal that Ms. Mosby either declined the station’s offers to comment in its news stories or d