WHYY receives 4 Murrow Awards for reporting on 2020 election, racial justice
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In this October 2020 file photo, Jamari Davis and his sister Amanda Davis-Buie, both Lebanon County residents, are pictured. They voted for former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election. (Dani Fresh for Keystone Crossroads)
For its reporting in a year of unrelenting news, WHYY News has received four Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association. The awards honor “outstanding achievements” in multimedia journalism and range in coverage topics from the 2020 election, to protests against racial injustice, to the city’s opioid crisis.
WHYY News was awarded the honors in a region encompassing large-market stations in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Regional winners will move on to the national round of the competition. Those winners will be announced this summer.
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In the News Series category, KUNC was honored for a collaborative series that was reported and produced by KUNC reporter Luke Runyon, Aspen Journalism s Heather Sackett, KJZZ s Bret Jaspers and the Nevada Independent s Daniel Rothberg.
Cash Flows: How Investors Are Banking On the West’s Water Scarcity, looked at how the tightening water supply has attracted the attention of a new actor in some water-stressed pockets of the West: the private investor. The broadcast stories were edited by Runyon and Larson. Jackie Hai designed and edited the online multimedia presentation.
Cash Flows also received a first place award in the Top of the Rockies contest for best Multimedia Story and a third place for Enterprise Reporting. The regional contest includes journalists in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. It’s sponsored by the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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TEGNA Honored with 86 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, Including Six for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
May 6, 2021 GMT
TYSONS, Va. (BUSINESS WIRE) May 6, 2021
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) today announced its stations received 86 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards – more than any other local broadcast television group – for excellence in broadcast journalism, including the coveted prizes for overall excellence, excellence in innovation, and the new category of excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion. More than a third of TEGNA’s 64 stations were among the winners with four stations – KARE, KING, WFAA and WUSA – garnering overall excellence, the highest honor awarded.