Hey, I was on WBAL Radio just this morning:
WBAL_7-1-2008.mp3 (or subscribe)
Now comes word that — probably not for the first time — Baltimore's news-talk blowtorch picked up two of the more prestigious trophies in reporting, named for Keith Olbermann's favorite sloganeer. A Wichita station picked up one of the national Murrows, too (not to be confused with the more abundant, and thus less prestigious regional Murrows).
RTNDA Announces the Winners of Edward R. Murrow Awards
Honoring 54 News Organizations for Journalism Excellence
WASHINGTON--The Radio-Television News Directors Association has announced the 2008 winners of the coveted Edward R. Murrow Awards, honoring excellence in electronic journalism.
In the network television category, ABC News has been awarded a total of six Murrows, including one for Overall Excellence. CBS News wins four awards, including one for Best Newscast for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. NBC and ESPN have also won.
In network radio, CBS News Radio wins five awards, including one for Overall Excellence. ABC News Radio, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio each won two awards. XM Satellite Radio is honored with a Murrow.
Disaster coverage figured in many of the winning stories both in radio and television, including reports on the Virginia Tech shootings and the Minneapolis Bridge collapse. Reports on the plight of injured Iraq war veterans’ returning home was the subject of both the winning Continuing Coverage entry from CBS News and the ABC News Documentary entry.
In all, 54 news organizations are being honored with 77 awards out of an initial pool of 3,459 entries from several hundred news organizations.
To earn an Overall Excellence award, a station or network must consistently demonstrate depth and scope in its coverage. Overall Excellence award winners this year are:
· ABC News (network television)
· CBS Radio News (network radio)
· KOMO-TV, Seattle (television, large market)
· WJAR-TV, Cranston, RI (television, small market)
· WBAL-AM, Baltimore, MD (radio, large market)
· KFDI-FM/KFDI-AM, Wichita, KS (radio, small market)
Several local stations won multiple national Murrows. They are:
· KGO-AM, San Francisco (Feature: Hard News, Use of Sound)
· WBAL-TV, Baltimore (News Documentary, News Series)
· WBZ-AM, Boston (News Series, Writing)
Local news coverage on the web in Texas was rewarded with two of the six National Edward R. Murrow awards for websites. WFAA-TV, the ABC affiliate serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area won for best broadcast affiliated website in a large television market and dallasnews.com, the website for the Dallas Morning News newspaper, won for best non-broadcast affiliated website.
Visit http://www.rtnda.org/pages/media_items/2008-murrow-national-winners1303.php for the complete list of winners.
The awards will be presented at the RTNDA Awards Dinner on October 13, 2008, in New York.
RTNDA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the electronic news profession. RTNDA is the world’s largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism. RTNDA represents local and network news professionals in broadcasting, cable and other electronic media in more than 30 countries.
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