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One of the best things about being a board member for RTDNA is having the chance to judge the Murrow Awards. It’s always a great reminder of the fantastic journalism being done around the country. RTDNA Awards Gala It’s even more fun when we get to call those journalists and let them know they won. Whether the award is for an investigative Gotham Hall, New York, NY documentary that required numerous FOIA requests, a sound-rich October 10, 2016 feature that expertly crats the audio, or a website finding new ways to engage the audience online, the Murrow recognizes their work as The Radio Television Digital News among the best in electronic journalism. Association is the world’s largest Tonight we recognize and honor that work at the Radio Television professional organization exclusively serving the electronic news profession, Digital News Association’s 46th Annual Edward R. Murrow Awards consisting of more than 1,200 news celebration. directors, news associates, educators, It’s a cliché now to say that “these are challenging times for our and students. profession." We’ve been saying that to each other for a generation as new technologies, platforms and revenue models come and go. Founded as a grassroots organization in 1946, the association is dedicated to But our standards of quality and journalism excellence remain the setting standards for news gathering and same. You’ll see examples of that tonight. reporting. The Murrow Award winners include television network coverage of the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and a look at Christians in Iraq. It includes local reporting about the water in Flint, Michigan that is still not safe to drink and an online look at the secret history of American surveillance. What all these winners have in common is a commitment to excellence and to their audience. The stories that win Murrow Awards demonstrate the best in journalism – watchdog journalism, breaking news, courageous reporting, and sometimes just good plain storytelling that makes you laugh or cry. The Murrow Awards are just a part of the work of RTDNA. Our Association also stands up for and defends journalists, trains new and mid-career journalists, gives scholarships to students studying to be journalists, and educates the public about our profession. Behind all of this work is a vigorous defense of the First Amendment. Vince Dufy Chairman, RTDNA Your presence here this evening helps support all these eforts of RTDNA, and we thank you for that. News Director at Michigan Radio Even in challenging times, great work is being done. So congratulations to all the winners of the Edward R. Murrow Award. Your work is an example of what journalism looks and sounds like when it is done extremely well. I hope you enjoy this evening.

Vince Dufy Chairman, RTDNA #Murrows | RTDNA.ORG 7 News Director, Michigan Radio 2016 Presenters

BYRON PITTS Co-Anchor of ABC News “Nightline” Byron Pitts was named ABC News "Nightline" co-anchor in 2014.

Mr. Pitts joined ABC News in April 2013 as anchor and Chief National Correspondent covering national news stories and in-depth features for the network, reporting for all broadcasts and platforms including "Good Morning America," "World News with Diane Sawyer," "Nightline,This Week and 20/20. Pitts also reports for all ABC News digital properties including ABCNews.com.

Named NABJ Journalist of the Year in 2002, Mr. Pitts is a multiple Emmy award-winning journalist known for his thoughtful storytelling, on-the-ground reporting and in-depth interviews. A news veteran with over 30 years of experience, Mr. Pitts has traveled around the world to cover some of the biggest news stories of our time from the Florida presidential recount to the tsunami in Indonesia and the refugee crisis in Kosovo. In less than 24 hours ater joining ABC News, Mr. Pitts participated in live special coverage of the Boston marathon bombing investigation, including the day-long manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers that virtually shut down the city.

Prior to joining ABC News, Mr. Pitts spent 15 years at CBS News where he recently served as Chief National Correspondent for The CBS Evening News and filed regularly for 60 Minutes, covering presidential campaigns and political conventions, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the devastating earthquake in Haiti. He was also one of CBS News’ first reporters at Ground Zero during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, winning an Emmy award for his coverage. Pitts has received several other prestigious awards for his work including an Emmy award for his reporting on the Chicago train wreck in 1999, a National Association of Black Journalists Award, four Associated Press Awards and six regional Emmy awards.

Mr. Pitts joined CBS News in 1997 as a correspondent for the 24-hour afiliate news service, CBS Newspath, in Washington, D.C., where he focused on politics and national interest pieces. One year later he was named CBS News correspondent, filing for the Miami and Atlanta bureaus before arriving in New York City in 2001. Mr. Pitts dreamed of becoming a journalist at a young age, but he faced two serious obstacles to his dream. He was illiterate until the age of 12 and struggled to overcome a stutter. Mr. Pitts chronicled his journey in a 2009 memoir titled, Step Out on Nothing: How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges.

He began his career at WNCT-TV in Greenville, North Carolina, where he covered local news and served as weekend sports anchor. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1982, where he studied journalism and speech communication.

Byron Pitts is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and he currently lives in New York City.

AARON KATERSKY Correspondent, ABC News Radio Aaron Katersky is an award-winning ABC News correspondent based in New York, whose reporting has brought him from Baghdad to the Bronx, covering the world at all times for ABC News.

Katersky is ABC News Radio's primary special events anchor and a contributor to the network’s investigative and justice units. He currently leads live coverage of the 2016 Presidential race, and has reported on a wide range of breaking news stories including, the bombings in New York and New Jersey, the Orlando Nightclub shooting and the Boston Marathon bombing.

Before joining ABC News in 2004, Katersky was a reporter at radio stations in Houston, Syracuse and southeastern Massachusetts.

A graduate of Syracuse University with dual degrees in broadcast journalism and religion, and originally from Scituate, MA, Katersky now lives in New York with his wife and daughter.

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LESTER HOLT Anchor, NBC Nightly News Lester Holt is an award-winning journalist and anchor of “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt,” the network’s flagship broadcast and America’s most-watched evening newscast. Holt was named to the role in June 2015 ater eight years as anchor of “NBC Nightly News” weekend editions and 12 years as co-anchor of “Weekend TODAY.” In addition, Holt has served as principal anchor of “Dateline NBC” since September 2011.

Holt joined NBC News in 2000 and is known for his outstanding work in the field, reporting and anchoring from breaking news events across the world. He has reported from Brussels and Paris on the terrorist attacks that took place across Europe in 2016 and 2015. Previously, Holt anchored from South Africa during the Nelson Mandela memorial service; reported from the streets of Cairo on the latest political and civil unrest in Egypt during the Arab Spring; covered the earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan; and reported on the immediate atermath and response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

His field reporting oten focuses on people most directly afected by the biggest stories of the day. He hosted a roundtable of South Carolina voters before the 2016 primary, spoke with Baltimore residents following city-wide protests in April 2015, and had an exclusive talk with the witness who recorded the Walter Scott shooting.

During the 2016 presidential race, Holt received praise for his work moderating the first Democratic debate of the year. He has also sat down for revealing, news-making interviews with candidates Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush.

Before becoming co-anchor of “Weekend TODAY” in 2003, Holt anchored “Lester Holt Live,” a daily news show on MSNBC. Holt served as a primary anchor for MSNBC’s coverage of major news events, including Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war in Afghanistan, and he was the lead daytime anchor for MSNBC’s coverage of Decision 2000. Holt also served as anchor of “Countdown: Iraq,” a nightly news telecast concentrating on the latest developments surrounding the war with Iraq, from October 2002 through March 2003.

For “Dateline NBC,” Holt has anchored numerous specials and investigative reports, such as “Breathless,” a story of injustice that examined the connection between childhood asthma and poverty in America. Holt also anchored “Conviction,” a “Dateline” special a decade in the making that examines the case of convicted murdered Jon-Adrian Velazquez, and reported three hours on the atermath of the Great Recession as part of the “American Now” documentary series.

Holt came to MSNBC from ater 14 years at WBBM-TV in Chicago. Previously, Holt worked as a reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City and sister station KCBS-TV in Los Angeles as a reporter and weekend anchor. His work has been recognized with numerous honors, including multiple Emmy Awards and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award. In April 2016 Holt received several notable designations: he was featured on TIME’s 100 Most Influential People list, The Hollywood Reporter’s Most Powerful People in New York list and was named “Journalist of the Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Holt studied government at California State University in Sacramento. He resides in New York City with his wife.

Holt is on Twitter at @LesterHoltNBC

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ELAINE QUIJANO Correspondent, CBS News Elaine Quijano is an anchor for CBSN, the CBS News 24-hour digital streaming network, and a correspondent for CBS News contributing to all CBS News broadcasts and platforms.

In her role at CBSN, Quijano has anchored the streaming network’s coverage of primary, debate and political convention nights throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. Quijano anchors weekdays on CBSN as well as the Sunday edition of CBS Weekend News. Additionally, her reporting is regularly featured on CBS THIS MORNING and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.

Based in New York, Quijano is a versatile correspondent, equally adept at covering breaking news and human interest stories. Moreover, her deep journalism background includes covering the White House, the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.

Quijano joined CBS News in 2010. Since then, she has traveled extensively and covered a variety of stories, including the Boston Marathon bombings, Superstorm Sandy, and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Quijano was also part of the CBS News team that received an Alfred I. duPont Award for the network's coverage of the 2012 Newtown shootings. In 2011, Quijano revealed in a report that the White House did not send presidential condolence letters to the families of service members who committed suicide. Ater her report, President Obama reversed that policy.

Prior to joining CBS News, she worked for CNN as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent. While there, she reported from various beats, including the White House, the Pentagon and the Supreme Court.

Quijano was named a White House correspondent for CNN in 2006 and covered the administrations of President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama. During that time, she reported on the Bush administration's war on terror, his failed push for comprehensive immigration reform and the financial crisis that emerged in the fall of 2008. She also traveled around the world, visiting a host of cities, including Kabul, Afghanistan, Islamabad, Pakistan and Beijing, China. Before being named a White House correspondent, she covered Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign and the campaign of vice presidential candidate John Edwards.

Prior to that, Quijano was a correspondent for CNN Newsource, the Network’s afiliate news service. She was part of Newsource’s round-the-clock coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and reported for CNN afiliates across the nation. Quijano also traveled to Kuwait City just days before the U.S. launched its invasion of Iraq in 2003, and provided extended onsite coverage.

Previously, Quijano was a general assignment reporter for WFTS-TV in Tampa, Fla. She also worked as a reporter/producer/anchor for WCIA-TV in Champaign, Ill. Quijano holds a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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The Radio Television Digital News Association has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow’s pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. The RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards Gala honors all of the national Murrow Award recipients that demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for broadcast news. Overall Excellence

RADIO-LARGE MARKET RADIO - NETWORK Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN ABC News Radio, New York

In 2015, MPR News routinely broke stories, provided live Through ABC News Radio’s vivid on-scene reporting in 2015, our coverage of breaking news, investigated key issues in the listeners ducked tear gas in the middle of the Baltimore riots; investi- region and delivered in-depth, sound-rich stories on the most gated a passenger train derailment near Philadelphia; braved danger important topics of the day, from fatal police shootings to with refugee families seeking a better life in Europe; picked through the wreckage of a passenger plane flown into the side of a mountain terrorism recruitment to climate change. by a suicidal pilot; experienced the wild scene on the Supreme Court steps ater the ruling legalizing gay marriage; and cheered with the crowds lining the streets in Cuba and the US for a glimpse of Pope Francis.

RADIO - SMALL MARKET WDEL - AM/FM, Wilmington, DE TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET CTV Vancouver, Vancouver BC

WDEL’s work in 2015 included comprehensive coverage of the death of Beau Biden, investigative reporting that uncovered Wilmington City Council members who owed back taxes, breaking news coverage of the DuPont-Dow merger, contributions to the “Help Our Kids Radiothon” (which has raised over $1-million for DuPont Hospital for Children), and quarterly broadcasts featuring Delaware high school journalists. Breaking news...in-depth reporting...live press conferences...feature reporting highlighting Delaware’s unique stories -- we are WDEL News.

Featuring comprehensive coverage of a deadly whale watching accident and a large chemical fire at the Port of Vancouver – the winning submission highlights CTV Vancouver News Director Les Staf and Managing Editor Ethan Faber’s focus on local and breaking news. The submission also features an investigation by the station’s consumer unit that exposed major rental car companies failing to comply with safety recalls. A strong commitment to the digital platform and extended online video demonstrates CTV Vancouver’s winning strategy of staying ahead of the curve in our rapidly chang- ing industry.

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TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET TELEVISION - NETWORK WISC-TV, Madison, WI ABC News, New York

WISC-TV stands for Wisconsin. We are known as Wisconsin’s Own, ABC News was at the the legacy station in Madison. WISC and Channel3000.com work forefront of the biggest in tandem to be one of the strongest CBS afiliates and local news events, issues and cultural websites in the country. Our Call For Action and News 3 Investigates touchstones of 2015 franchises help us uncover major problems. We own major events with exclusive, original like the Final Four, and we partner with community groups to storytelling that drove produce regular segments like Time For Kids and Buddy Check 3. national conversations on politics, civil rights, race, justice and religion. In Tehran, Charleston, Baltimore, The Vatican, Havana, Nepal and beyond – the Network put compelling journalism and masterful storytelling front and center, showing again and again what the ABC News team can accomplish.

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ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - SMALL Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Emeryville, CA

The Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit multiplatform news organization dedicated to engaging and empowering the public through investigative journalism and groundbreaking storytelling. Our work includes video, text pieces, interactive apps, live events and the nationally distributed radio show and podcast “Reveal,” which CIR coproduces with PRX. This is a collection of some of the top stories The Washington Post’s video team tackled in 2015. From a series on police accountability, to the spread of heroin use across the country, this reel showcases how we covered some of the nation’s most newsworthy issues.

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USE OF SOUND USE OF VIDEO RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET WNYC, New York KUSA-TV, Denver Elevators: John Hockenberry Scholl Videography "The Motel Life" John Hockenberry is the host of The 9NEWS photojournalist Corky Takeaway. He has used a wheelchair since Scholl spent months with the the age of 19. John took a moment to people who live in motels on share his perspective and the pure joy of Colfax Avenue, the main street riding a modern elevator in one of the new World Trade Towers. The that runs across the Denver metro area. The story highlights the use of sound and acoustics transforms the anonymous elevator into struggles of the working poor and the delicate balance between life something much more personal. and death in a tough neighborhood.

RADIO - NETWORK TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET KQED with Food & Environment Reporting Network WVUE-TV, New Orleans San Francisco Heart of Louisiana Grapes of Wrath: The Forgotten Filipino-Americans Who Led The Heart of Louisiana is Dave the ’65 Delano Grape Strike McNamara’s series on life in the Bayou State. From scenic 50 years ago, an historic strike in swamp vistas to a Cajun bakery California’s Central Valley vineyards set to migratory birds nesting on in motion one of the most significant Louisiana barrier islands, McNamara’s camera captures the essence campaigns in modern labor history: of Louisiana living and brings them to the screen in these beautiful the Farmworker Movement. The United images. Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez are widely known but there’s a rarely-told part of that history: Filipinos, mostly men in their 60s, started the Delano Grape Strike. ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE The New York Times, New York RADIO - SMALL MARKET Justin Bieber, Diplo, and Skrillex Make a Hit WITF, Harrisburg, PA Shot in black and white, with sounds emphasized The Outhouse Races by neon graphics, this video about the making of “Where Are Ü Now” emphasizes sound, while Dushore is a quiet little community profiling Justin Bieber, Diplo and Skrillex. This is in Sullivan County, about 90 minutes the story behind the music and – in the words of west of Scranton, Pennsylvania. It’s Justin Beiber the “wrong right” sound. annual Founders Day celebration TIMESVIDEO features children’s activities, fried foods, a pet parade and arts and crats. But as WITF's Joe Ulrich ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - SMALL discovers, when the sun starts to set --things really go down the The GroundTruth Project, Boston toilet. Foreverstan: The Girls' School USE OF VIDEO Foreverstan.com is The GroundTruth Project’s TELEVISION - NETWORK immersive, online, interactive ABC News, New York experience that features video news stories adapted from the Inside North Korea feature-length documentary WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS. This cutting edge virtual reality project took viewers on a rare trip Filmed between 2009 and through the capital city of Pyongyang, culminating with leader Kim 2015, Director Beth Murphy’s short films reveal what is at stake for Jong Un celebrating amongst a crowd of thousands at a military girls’ education at a dramatic turning point in Afghanistan’s history. parade.

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RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET WAMU, Washington WXIA-WATL-TV, Atlanta Assault on Justice Smart ALEC: The Backroom Where Laws Are Born

Wiggling while handcufed. Bracing The 11 Alive Investigators found the one hand on the steering wheel backroom where lawmakers and lobbyists during the arrest. Yelling at an meet behind closed doors to create oficer. All these actions have new laws. They caught an elected state led to people being prosecuted for “assaulting a police oficer” in representative asking a corporate lobbyist Washington, D.C., where a broadly written law has raised concerns for a few thousand dollars in the hotel bar about abuse. the night before those same people met in closed committee rooms where the corporations and special interests had an equal vote on proposed legislation. Chief Investigator Brendan RADIO - NETWORK Keefe tracked a Georgia asbestos law to its place of birth: a Las Vegas NPR, Washington casino where the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, World War II Secret Mustard Gas Testing allowed corporate interests to write the model legislation that now prevents asbestos victims from suing companies in several states. Secret Mustard Gas Experiments: The U.S. military conducted secret mustard gas ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE (VIDEO) experiments during World War II using African- American and Japanese-American troops as test Guardian US, New York subjects, looking for racial diferences. NPR told The County: The Story of America's Deadliest Police the story for the first time and revealed how, The County is a five-part multimedia investigation years later, the government broke its promise to into law enforcement in Kern County, CA, where police help men who endured lasting side efects. killed people at a higher rate than in any other county in America. The series revealed a pattern of impunity and RADIO - SMALL MARKET corruption, and garnered attention around the world. Marfa Public Radio, Marfa, TX Towns On Path Of Proposed Mexican Pipelines Sufer Rash TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET of Violence CTV London, London People living in the Juárez Valley southeast of Ciudad Juárez and El Mental Health 911 Paso, Texas allege that land speculators preparing for the initiation Mental Heatlh 911 takes an unprecedented look at just how far of oil and gas production have spurred a land grab that has forced the ripple efect of deinstitutionalization travels. Over the course what some claim is an exodus of local residents. People interviewed of several weeks, reporter Cristina Howorun travels with police, for this story claim they or neighbors have been burned out of their firefighters, paramedics and correctional oficers, exploring the homes and that others have been murdered. They live in a string of impact these calls have on their resources, budgets and ability to towns along the Rio Grande in an area slated for energy production address other calls in the community. and infrastructure construction in part spawned by Mexico's energy reform program. One town of 10,000 residents a decade ago today has a population of approximately 1,000. The case has triggered at least 250 applications for political asylum in the United States. TELEVISION - NETWORK ESPN, Atlanta ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION-SMALL E:60 The Turf War Texas Tribune, Austin, TX (SOUND) Ten years ago, ESPN profiled Andrew Goldstein, a Dartmouth College Hurting for Work lacrosse goalie and the first openly gay male athlete to play in an American professional sport league. His story created an unlikely What would you do if, while you were connection with a young lacrosse player named Braeden who recently working overnight, a nearby glass desk just came out to his family and friends. When bullied by classmates, ... exploded? When it happened to Rivet’s Braeden’s father turned to the Internet for help, finding ESPN’s story Jonah Meadows and Elizabeth Giadans, we on Andrew Goldstein. A simple email paved investigated. What we learned surprised us. the way for the first Courage Game, a lacrosse Because it happens a lot. game to encourage and support gay youth while promoting equality. Greg Garber, who covered ESPN’s story ten years ago, reports on this SC Featured story on courage and healing through the power of sports. 18 #Murrows | October 10, 2016 AD SPACE

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RADIO - LARGE MARKET ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION-SMALL (VIDEO) WBAL, Baltimore Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Freddie Gray Emeryville, CA The violence set of soul-searching among The Dead Unknown community leaders and others, with some This three part documentary series explores eforts to identify suggesting the uprising was not just about race a woman known only as “Mountain Jane Doe,” who was found or the police department, but also about high stabbed to death of a remote mountain trail in Harlan, Kentucky, unemployment, high crime, poor housing, in 1969. CIR’s team followed the case in real time over the course broken-down schools and lack of opportunity in of a year, from the exhumation through the DNA analysis and Baltimore's inner-city neighborhoods - issues that are not going search for her identity. Along the way, the team discovered that the away anytime soon. unidentified dead sometimes were found in the same community where they spent their whole lives, and authorities still failed to RADIO - NETWORK connect the dots. WBEZ & This American Life, Chicago Puerto Rico Exports its Drug Addicts to Chicago ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE (VIDEO) When Adriana Cardona-Maguigad The Washington Post, Washington started talking to homeless men in the Ten Years ater Katrina Chicago neighborhood she works in, she 2015 marked 10 years since Hurricane discovered that many of them had the Katrina devastated New Orleans and same, very strange backstory. They were through several stories, we explore this drug addicts from Puerto Rico, sent to anniversary and how the city is still Chicago to get help in well-appointed rebounding. treatment centers. They found none of that, and ended up on the streets. And then they told her something even stranger. Many of the men said they’d been sent to Chicago by police or other oficials in Puerto Rico. TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET WSAV-TV, Savannah, GA RADIO - SMALL MARKET Hawaii Public Radio, Honolulu Death In The Chatham County Jail Thirty Meter Telescope Hawaii When inmate Mathew Ajibade died in the Chatham County jail on New The battle over a mountaintop considered Year’s Day 2015, a one-paragraph sacred by Native Hawaiians resonated news release was issued promising an beyond Hawaii. Protests over the investigation. WSAV, led by anchor/reporter Dave Kartunen, didn’t construction of a Thirty Meter Telescope wait. Our investigation showed repeated mistreatment of a fully raised issues from environmental impacts restrained and helpless inmate. Despite a constant open records to Native Hawaiian land rights. Audio battle with the county, WSAV’s investigation also revealed extreme included highlights of an 8-month vigil on the mountain, as well as leadership and systemic problems at a detention center which perspectives from the scientific community. counted 11 deaths over 3 years.

TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - NETWORK WXIA-WATL-TV, Atlanta NBC News, New York 911 Lost on the Line NBC Nightly News: The Death of Freddie Gray Lester Holt and the NBC Nightly News It started with a single fatal call to 911 — a call that would team went well beyond the rioting reveal stunning weaknesses in the emergency response system that followed the death of Freddie nationwide. Thanks to a year-long, ongoing series of investigative Gray, reporting on the underlying reports by Chief Investigator Brendan Keefe, many Americans now issue – racial, economic and social – of understand that 911 can’t always locate their cell phones during a city long in decline. The coverage life and death calls for help. Keefe discovered the 911 system relies also explored how Gray’s death brought new focus to police and on technology created two decades ago, long before the advent of community relations in Baltimore and beyond. the modern smart phone. The first question from dispatchers isn’t "What’s the emergency?" but "Where’s the emergency?" as a direct result of this groundbreaking investigation, a solution that will bring reliable location services to every mobile device in the United States has been invented and just received a US patent. #Murrows | RTDNA.ORG 21

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@THECAQ THECAQ.ORG Writing THE CENTER FOR RADIO - LARGE MARKET ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE (VIDEO) WBUR, Boston The Washington Post, Washington Tsarnaev Relatives Take Stand In Emotional Day There's a Better Way to Stand In Line. But You Won't Like It. Of Testimony When we stand in line, it's not just It was an emotional day of the length of time we hate, it's the testimony in the Boston anxiety, uncertainty and boredom that TES Marathon bombing trial Monday goes along with it. Some companies as the relatives of convicted and researchers are looking for ways bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took the stand. And for the first time in to make waiting in line a little less this trial, the defendant, too, appeared to show emotion, however painful. WINNERS OF briefly. TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET KTUU-TV, Ancorage, AK Blake Essig Writing RADIO - NETWORK Alaska is a storytellers dream come true. Sure it’s rugged, THE 2016 NPR, Washington unforgiving and oten ridiculously cold. But it’s also beautiful, Amid Mourning, Life in Paris Goes On magical and full of some of the amazing stories you can imagine. KTUU’s Blake Essig captures the challenges, raw beauty and magical Following Paris’ November terror moments of life in the last frontier. attacks, NPR's Robert Siegel reported ARD D. MURROW on the city’s traumatized mood. With graceful and sober prose, he described TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET the scene of the attacks and evidence WXIA-WATL-TV, Atlanta of the carnage. Robert encapsulated Jaye Watson ! the resilient state of mind of grieving Parisians. The piece took listeners into Jaye Watson's writing entry focuses on the heart of a wounded Paris: a city simple alphabet boards that have been close to many Americans. able to unlock the minds of children with autism. She shares how the power of music can help patients with Alzheimer's remember their past and engage with the world around them. She highlights a tiny, rebel grocery store that is shaking up the status quo, opening in a “food desert.”

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RADIO - LARGE MARKET ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE WAMU, Washington The Seattle Times, Seattle (VIDEO) How The Pro-Bowser FreshPAC Was Forced To Disband How the State is Missing Chances to Find Deadly Birth Defect’s Cause When Washingtonians elected Muriel More than 40 mothers have lost babies Bowser as mayor last year, she to a rare and deadly birth defect in three promised to bring a “fresh start” to Central Washington counties since 2010, the city, ater the campaign scandals but the cause remains unknown. Why of her predecessor, Vincent Gray. haven’t health oficials done more to find But less than a year ater Bowser answers? took ofice, she confronted her own controversy: a new political action committee bringing in unlimited donations. TELEVISION - NETWORK RADIO - NETWORK CBS News, New York ABC News Radio, New York Iraqi Christmas Taliban in Pakistan Derail World Polio Eradication Lara Logan reports from Northern Iraq, where The toll that November night was ISIS has forced up to 125,000 Christians to flee devastating. ABC News Radio's coverage wove from towns and villages they have lived in for together stories from the attack’s survivors nearly 2,000 years. with sound from that awful night, capturing a poignant picture of all that was lost.

RADIO - SMALL MARKET WITF, Harrisburg, PA TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET Heroin: A Life Lost WBBH-TV , Fort Myers, FL The opioid addiction crisis has robbed families of sons, daughters Thoughts, Interrupted and partners. The numbers show how wide it reaches, but not how In 2011, 23 million people were prescribed fluoroquinolones, a deep. WITF's Ben Allen visited the Emmingers in Mount Joy to hear family of strong antibiotics experts say are being over prescribed. how one mother worked for years to get her son help, until one day in March.

ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION-SMALL TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET Vocativ, New York (VIDEO) WFAA-TV, Dallas Syria Future Generations Cruel and Unusual: The Texas Prison Crisis Syria Future Generations is a WFAA-TV’s “Cruel and Unusual: haunting look at a girls' school that The Texas Prison Crisis” examines Vocativ producer Lindsey Snell how un-air conditioned prisons, visited outside Aleppo, Syria. The which heat up to 120 degrees school has been bombed at least in the summer, are death traps. twice by the Assad regime—but Prison guards deny medical care refuses to close. When the war for inmates, who deaths are barely began in 2011, nearly 100% of Syrian children were enrolled in investigated and routinely labeled schools. Now it’s fallen to 30%. In the worst areas of fighting, only “natural causes,” even when prisoners witness abuse. 6% attend school. This particular school was taken over by the Free Syrian Army when the rebels captured the territory from Assad forces. The FSA provide some measure of protection to the schools – as well as much needed supplies including workbooks. The girls and the teachers were determined to continue with their daily classes despite the constant threat of attack.

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RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET WBUR, Boston WNBC-TV, New York She Remembers It All Mother Nature, Let Up! The last thing anyone wants to hear is that When a seasoned New Yorker laments "Mother their six-year-old child has cancer, but that’s Nature, let up!" you might wonder: is she the news Rosemary Jensen faced. Her feisty talking about extreme heat or brutal cold? Nicholas lived for another three and a half years. Using natural sound, brisk interviews and a What made that terrible journey bearable was remarkable standup, photojournalist Michael their relationship with Nick’s doctor, Melody DelGiudice and reporter Andrew Sif give you both sides of an Cunningham. Even ater Nicholas was reassigned to a diferent indelible weather drama. doctor, Dr. Cunningham found ways to communicate with Nicholas when he didn’t want to talk, having dificult conversations about ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE illness and death. Detroit Free Press, Detroit (VIDEO) RADIO - NETWORK The Hydrus ESPN, Bristol, CT Since 1913, the 436-foot E:60 Love is Stronger steamship Hydrus had been lost. It sank during a ferocious winter storm. For 30 years, the Hydrus had eluded 75-year-old shipwreck E:60 and award-winning correspondent hunter David Trotter. Until now. In 2015, Trotter found the wreck at Bob Woodruf tell the story of Chris the bottom of Lake Huron - adding the Hydrus to Trotter’s impressive Singleton, the young man whose mother resume of over 100 shipwreck discoveries. was murdered, along with eight others, at Charleston’s Emanuel AME Church. Singleton shares the tale of a mother's love, how baseball saved his TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET life, and why for him love will always be stronger than hate. WISC-TV, Madison, WI RADIO - SMALL MARKET Ashamed to Advocate: A Mother's Lesson in Love KMUW, Wichita, KS Joanne Lee’s unconditional, motherly love was tested when her two children told her they were transgender. In addition to a powerful Reaching Out: The Ongoing Relationship Between the WPD and emotional television story, we provided online viewers with an and the Homeless interactive discussion with a panel of students, young adults and a parent who fall in diferent places on the gender spectrum. The Homeless Outreach Team (HOT), part of Wichita’s police department is reducing the number of homeless people in the city. The HOT team now has a TELEVISION - NETWORK relationship with a community that used ESPN, Bristol, CT to be problematic. And it’s working...because as Oficer Nate says, “Arresting your way out of homelessness doesn’t work.” SC Featured: The Courage Game Ten years ago, ESPN profiled Andrew Goldstein, a Dartmouth College lacrosse goalie and the first openly ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - SMALL (VIDEO) gay male athlete to play in an American professional Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, sport league. His story created an unlikely connection Emeryville, CA with a young lacrosse player named Braeden who recently came out to his family and friends. When bullied by The Secret History of American Surveillance classmates, Braeden’s father turned to the Internet for help, finding The Secret History of American Surveillance traces the roots of ESPN’s story on Andrew Goldstein. A simple email paved the way for our modern surveillance state and examines how beholden the the first Courage Game, a lacrosse game to encourage and support government has become to the private corporations that handle our gay youth while promoting equality. Greg Garber, who covered sensitive information. ESPN’s story ten years ago, reports on this SC Featured story on courage and healing through the power of sports. ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - SMALL (AUDIO) WarbirdRadio.com, Arlington, VA Warbird Radio Presents - The Ralph Maloof Story The Ralph Maloof Story, surprises World War Two aviator, Ralph Maloof with a flight in his former airplane, the North American P-51 Mustang. Mr. Maloof's war stories are memorable, but #Murrows | RTDNA.ORG 25 his lessons on lifelong learning and mentoring the next generation are unforgettable. News Documentary

RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET Michigan Radio, Ann Arbor, MI WDAY-TV, Fargo, ND Not Safe to Drink Traficked What would you do if your tap water turned brown? If it gave your The WDAY TV documentary, "Traficked," children a rash every time they took a bath? Or worse, what if it takes a look at the dramatic increase in sex made them sick? Listen to our special documentary and hear the traficking out in the oil patch of western wild story about how the water in Flint became Not Safe To Drink. North Dakota. With thousands of workers in that part of the state, authorities found themselves battling organized crime RADIO - NETWORK coming in with drugs, guns, money and girls they traficked in the This American Life, New York Bakken. The documentary is told through the eyes of those who have The Night in Question survived sex traficking and those trying to escape it right now. This past year marked the 20th anniversary of one of the most pivotal events in Israel’s history ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE – the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Yahoo News, New York Rabin by a Jewish extremist. In an hour-long segment, This American Life reinvestigated key Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government's War on Gays parts of the murder and examined the conspiracy This documentary, which includes never-before-seen government theories that surround it. The piece includes a rare memos, explores a dark and little-known chapter in America’s past, interview with the assassin's co-conspirator and when gays and lesbians were barred from working for the federal illuminates wider political trends in Israel, where the prospects for government and the FBI, through its “sex deviates” program, peace have steadily withered. secretly collected hundreds of thousands of files on the sex lives of American citizens. RADIO - SMALL MARKET Arizona Public Media, Tucson, AZ TELEVISION - NETWORK Divided by Law HBO, Santa Monica, CA The nation’s unauthorized population is about CITIZENFOUR 11 million, many of whom put down roots and The HBO Documentary Film CITIZENFOUR, started families. They are parents to 4.5 million one of the most acclaimed films of 2014, U.S. citizen children. We found a growing number is a real-life thriller that unfolds by the of these children stuck in the middle. This story minute. The film follows director Laura ofers a glimpse at the challenges they face. Poitras (“The Oath”), and journalist Glenn Greenwald as they encounter Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION-SMALL (VIDEO) where he hands over classified documents providing evidence of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the National Emeryville, CA Security Agency (NSA). The Dead Unknown "The Dead Unknown" tells the story of ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION-SMALL (AUDIO) Jane and John Does in America and the Life of the Law, San Francisco thousands of families let in the dark about their lovedone’s fate–a problem the Bit of an Edge - Ep 69 Department of Justice has called “the nation’s silent mass disaster.” Jury duty. It’s one of the pillars of our democratic society. If you are charged with a crime, a jury of your peers will determine your TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET innocence or your guilt. But who selects the jurors? The attorney Alabama Public Television, Burmingham, AL Clarence Darrow had his own rules of thumb. Darrow was one of the most famous defense attorneys ever. He defended the science Jeremiah teacher accused of teaching evolution in the Scopes Monkey trials. Jeremiah Denton spent eight years as a prisoner of the North He has this famous quote, “a trial is won or lost when a jury is sworn Vietnamese in the Hanoi Hilton while at home his wife battled to in.” “Although we can’t predict with certainty how any human being bring him home. Denton was paraded before the press and told to is going to behave, we do know that some things are associated with recite Communist propaganda but instead he sent a secret message more favorable and less favorable views,” says Hans. “And sometimes home, blinking out the letters T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code. a little bit of edge is all you may get and that may be enough for you.” And this little bit of edge, the science of jury selection has created a $400 million industry. Jury consultants every year bill their clients about $400 million. 26 #Murrows | October 10, 2016 AD SPACE Newscast

RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET WBZ, Boston KMBC-TV, Kansas City, MO WBZ 7AM Morning New Clinton Homicides and Manhunt On Feb. 2, 2015, New England fans KMBC’s newscast details the ongoing manhunt for James Horn, trudged through the latest in a accused of the double slaying of Sandra Sutton and her teenage son. series of severe snowstorms while The comprehensive celebrating the Patriots' Super Bowl team coverage win! WBZ recapped the game's encompasses not only dramatic ending and previewed the ongoing search, plans for a slushy victory parade, but the dark history while helping listeners get to work with critical weather and trafic of the fugitive and information. speculation related to his brutal attack.

RADIO - NETWORK CBS Radio News, New York TELEVISION - NETWORK CBS World News Roundup NBC News, New York

CBS World News Roundup provided in-depth coverage of the NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt: November 19th, 2015 Charleston church shootings. The broadcast was co-anchored For a few days ater the ISIS attacks in Paris in November, it seemed by Scott Pelley in everyone in the world was a citizen of the City of Light. NBC Nightly Charleston and Steve News's November 19th broadcast reflects the program's editorial Kathan in New York. It strengths in covering was a comprehensive a complex breaking look at how the city news story: enterprise was coping, the interviews, incisive investigation, the investigative, national suspect and the victims. security, foreign and This broadcast also political reporting , covered the Colorado as well as exceptional movie shooting trial and the manhunt for two escaped prisoners in storytelling skills. northern New York. It was produced by Paul Farry.

TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET RADIO - SMALL MARKET WISC-TV, Madison, WI C-FAX 1070, Victoria, BC News 3 at 6: No charges in the death of Tony Robinson Victoria @ Noon Ater nearly three months of investigation and Victoria @ Noon is a regularly scheduled major newscast on C-FAX national public scrutiny, 1070 that airs Monday to Friday. As the longest newscast of the day, the district attorney it’s designed to provide a showcase for local news generated by the rules in an explosive C-FAX team. case that divided our community. The DA decides no charges will be filed against a Madison police oficer for shooting and killing unarmed 19-year-old Tony Robinson. This is the comprehensive newscast that covered the decision, reaction and analysis.

28 #Murrows | October 10, 2016 Website

RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis WCAU, Philadelphia news.stlpublicradio.org nbc10.com The online work of the St. Louis NBC10.com’s entry included coverage Public Radio newsroom reflects a of an Amtrak train derailment that killed time of transition. All of the issues 8 and injured over 200 and a project on raised by “Ferguson” in 2014 Philly’s homeless youth (resulting in continued to afect us in profound $42.5M in federal funding). In addition, ways in 2015. Our newsroom responded by ofering points of our coverage of Pope Francis’s historic reflection in multimedia projects, deep data dives, creative uses of visit and anniversary reporting on a fatal fire which decimated a city audio and compelling explanatory work in a confusing and nuanced block. situation. All combine to help define a regional identity that’s ever- changing. TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET WGRZ-TV, Bufalo, NY RADIO- SMALL MARKET wgrz.com KBIA, Columbia, MO WGRZ.com goes beyond the headlines to feature investigative KBIA.org reports and engaging features important to Western New York. Our entry highlights long form journalism, interactive features, a This award recognizes KBIA’s continued weather page that includes our interactive doppler radar and pages commitment to innovation online. In that showcase videos highlighting our regional history. addition to KBIA’s homepage, the entry included a state government data project, a community storytelling project, multiple deep- TELEVISION - NETWORK dive stories with multimedia buildouts, and in-depth online-only ABC News, New York explanatory reporting that ofered key context to breaking news on the University of Missouri campus. ABCNewsGo.com From the streets of North Korea to the market stalls in Syria, ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - SMALL (AUDIO) ABCNews.com has given viewers unprecedented on-the-ground Health News Florida - WUSF, WLRN, WMFE, Tampa, FL coverage of stories with a global impact--from the complexities of the refugee crisis to groundbreaking investigations to short Health News Florida documentaries, and an epic 40-hour livestream packed with original programming. Health News Florida holds state policymakers and practitioners accountable with independent reporting online and on public radio. ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE We emphasize cost, quality and health Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee (AUDIO) care access. Founded in 2006, Health News Florida joined WUSF Public Media Unsolved: A Murdered Teen, a 40-year Mystery in Tampa in 2012. WLRN in Miami and A multi-media look at 40-year-old WMFE in Orlando joined in 2014. cold case murder, from flaws in the police investigation to the lasting efect on the family and (VIDEO) ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - SMALL the community. Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Emeryville, CA ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting Star Tribune, Minneapolis (VIDEO) The Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit multiplatform Star Tribune news organization dedicatedto engaging and empowering The Star Tribune website is the public through the top news destination investigative journalism and in the Twin Cities market, groundbreaking storytelling. which includes a robust broadcast presence with four TV stations, Our work includes video, text the Pioneer Press newspaper and Minnesota Public Radio. The Star pieces, interactive apps, live Tribune delivers news that afects Minnesotans 24 hours a day. events and the nationally Digitally, whether it's via web, phone, tablet or social media, we distributed radio show and report news that's timely and in-depth. With more than a million podcast “Reveal,” which CIR unique visitors a month, StarTribune.com is the largest news site in co produces with PRX. Minnesota.

#Murrows | RTDNA.ORG 29 Sports Reporting

RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET WLRN, Miami WZZM-TV, Grand Rapids, MI Shark Attack On The Beach! Footvolley's Popularity Taking Big Ann Of In Florida, the U.S. Ater a cyst growing on her spine Footvolley is a blend sidelined a student athlete in Grand of soccer and beach Rapids, AnnaLee Konsoer-Rose, who volleyball invented half a goes by the nickname "Big Ann," century ago in Brazil – a fights to return to the court with her country obsessed with high school basketball team. both soccer and the beach. It’s catching on in the U.S. – especially in South Florida, where Tim Padgett reports there's a ProFootvolley Tour international TELEVISION - NETWORK tournament happening. ESPN, Bristol, CT SC Featured: Miraculous A survivor of two separate plane RADIO - SMALL MARKET crashes that killed family members WMSI-FM, Jackson, MS and his pilot father, Indiana high school basketball star Austin Hatch Willie Heidelberg realizes his dream to play basketball While learning the story of a local for the University of Michigan in this SC civil rights hero, a group of middle Featured story. Hatch’s road to the Division I Wolverines, reported school students discovered he by ESPN’s Chris Connelly, is unlike any told before – full of promise, had never been accorded the loss and resilience – and simply Miraculous. sports honor he deserved. And as WMSI-FM News Director Randy Bell reported, the kids set out to ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE change that. The Denver Post, Denver Kailyn's Spirit The Denver Post won for the video report TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET “Kailyn’s Spirit,” KREM-TV, Spokane, WA filmed and produced by Lindsay Pierce. The video was based on a year-long series of stories by Jason Blevins on the recovery Hotel Swimmer of 15-year-old athlete Kailyn Forsberg. Forsberg was paralyzed One of the best swimmers when she overrotated a backflip during the April 2014 national in the nation trained in USA Snowboard and Freeski Association competition at Copper her small town’s only Mountain. Photographers Helen H. Richardson and Aaron Ontiveroz indoor pool, located in also contributed to the project, as did former Post videographer a hotel. KREM 2 News Mahala Gaylord. showcased the swimmer’s unique training challenge ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - SMALL by making the hotel the FreePressMedia, Burlington, VT central character in the story in a way not seen Slowing Down, Marathon Style since Stephen King wrote For years, Free Press Media has dedicated itself to the most The Shining. complete and in-depth coverage of the Vermont City Marathon. But one big challenge we struggle with each year: how do we make that coverage unique and distinct from years’ past? For video content, that answer has been to increasingly push the limits, redefining ‘sports’ video by focusing on techniques that tell a better story, break molds, and focus on things that are largely overlooked or ignored.

30 #Murrows | October 10, 2016 News Series

RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET WLRN, Miami KFOR-TV, Oklahoma City The Migration Maze The Faces of The Bombing The terrorist bomb that exploded outside WLRN and the Miami Herald examined the the Murrah Federal Building in 1995 killed Central American migrant crisis. Focusing 168 people and injured more than 800. on Honduras, this multi-platform series For the past 20 years, Linda Cavanaugh covered both new policy eforts to improve has followed those directly afected by conditions driving illegal immigration - the blast. They know history by having exploring whether economic opportunity projects, professionalized lived it. They are "The Faces of the community policing and anti-corruption vigilance help keep Bombing.” migrants at home - as well as migrants’ painful experience. TELEVISION - NETWORK RADIO - NETWORK ABC News, New York NPR, Washington ABC News Nightline: Face to Face Rain Forest Was Here The series explored the undeniable power of a face-to-face Humans are having a profound impact on encounter, with stories about an incarcerated man and the our world. Nowhere is the efect on our prosecutor who put him in jail, fathers behind bars and their young habitat more apparent – and arguably more children, and a mother and daughter who had not seen each other important -- than the rain forest. In the run- in decades. up to the Paris Climate Summit, an NPR team ventured deep into the Amazon to witness ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE (VIDEO) –and explain --deforestation firsthand. The New York Times, New York Outlaw Ocean RADIO - SMALL MARKET In this series on lawlessness on the high New Hampshire Public Radio, Concord, NH seas, Ian Urbina reveals that crime and violence in international waters oten The First Decade: Early Childhood Disparities and the goes unpunished. Mr. Urbina delves into Future of N.H.’s Kids the repercussions of a lawless sea with narrative-driven stories, interactives and When it comes to kids' well-being, videos scattered throughout the articles. New Hampshire ranks high overall in survey ater survey. But the real picture of how kids are faring goes ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE deeper than that. Children in poor National Public Radio and ProPublica, Washington (AUDIO) families continue to lose ground in everything from access to health care to quality education to Insult to Injury: America's Vanishing Workplace Protections opportunities to play sports. In a weeklong series, NHPR looked In two audio stories from the NPR/ProPublica series Insult to Injury, at how disparities in early childhood shape a child's chances for injured workers describe how their liveshave been ruined as states success later in life. cut workers’ comp benefits, give employers more control over benefits decisions,limit access to benefits, end benefits sooner and leave workers without protective government regulations or court TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET reviews. WVUE-TV, New Orleans Swiped: Financial Mismanagement ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - SMALL (VIDEO) Texas Tribune, Austin, TX “Swiped: Financial Mismanagement” exposed a little-known Louisiana Texas Tribune: God and Governing retirement system whose executive Texas Tribune reporters spent six months in 2015 interviewing director spent recklessly on personal dozens of elected oficialsand scouring hundreds of hours of trips and fancy meals while simultaneously squandering nearly legislative footage to produce an online video and television project, $150 million in retiree benefits. Our news series led to the board’s “God & Governing.” The five-part series dove deep into the way executive director’s resignation, an investigation by the legislative lawmakers’ faith directed their decision-making on everything from auditor and sweeping institutional changes. abortion to gun rights.

#Murrows | RTDNA.ORG 31 Breaking News Coverage

RADIO - LARGE MARKET TELEVISION - LARGE MARKET WBBM, Chicago WJLA-TV, Arlington, VA Laquan McDonald Baltimore Riots: A City Under Siege In the wake of Freddie Gray’s death Best of 24 hours of spot coverage in police custody rioting ripped apart of the charging of Oficer Jason Van Baltimore. The ABC7 News team Dyke, release of dash-cam video, headed north to document what hastily-called news conferences and would prove to be a terrifying ordeal spontaneous demonstrations in police- for police, business owners, residents involved shooting death of a 17-year- and news crews. This entry captures in stark detail a dystopian old Chicagoan. landscape of looting and lawlessness.

RADIO - NETWORK ABC News Radio, New York TELEVISION - NETWORK ABC News, New York San Bernardino Shooting Rampage ABC News - Baltimore: A City on Edge When terror struck at home, ABC News Radio captured those terrifying The entire news division quickly mobilized to provide truly moments as police searched for an exceptional breaking news coverage as the city of Baltimore erupted active shooter and families tried to in chaos. account for their loved ones. The team was on the air from the first moments of the tense search for the shooters to the dramatic end to the manhunt. ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION - LARGE The New York Times, New York (VIDEO) RADIO - SMALL MARKET Paris Breaking News Coverage KFDI-FM, Wichita, KS Paris reeled from a deadly shooting rampage, explosions and mass Thunderstorm Becomes Tornadic hostage-taking November 13. As the events and subsequent investigation unfolded, The Times Anchors segue into continuous coverage brought elaborate storytelling machinery ranging ater a severe thunderstorm unexpectedly from user-generated content to graphics to on- produces a tornado near two small communities northwest of the-ground video reporting to update viewers in Wichita, KS. Coverage features anchors in the studio, mobile units in real-time with sights, sounds, and exclusives from the field, real time calls from listeners and meteorologists from our the Paris streets. television news partner.

TELEVISION - SMALL MARKET WGEM-TV, Quincy, IL Windstorm Slams Quincy A windstorm slammed Quincy, Illinois, on July 13, 2016. A State of Emergency was declared. Knowing that much of the audience had lost power, WGEM simulcast newscasts and special reports on radio and mobile devices. The station broadcast all news conferences live and provided real-time updates on emergency services.

32 #Murrows | October 10, 2016 Student Award Winners

OVERALL EXCELLENCE – AUDIO

Noel Gasca KUOW’s RadioActive Youth Media

Noel Gasca is a recent graduate of Lake Stevens High School in Lake Stevens, Washington, and is currently a freshman at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. Ms. Gasca has participated in a variety of journalism including school publications, Seattle’s KUOW 94.9’s RadioActive Youth Media program and the Asian American Journalism Association’s JCamp program. Ms. Gasca is also a 2016 Gracie Award Grand Winner for her story “Why This Teen Stopped Hiding Her Dad’s Abuse.”

Ivy As a child, Ivy Jacobsen spent a lot of time with her father. He taught her how to cook, clean, ski and play her favorite sport, basketball-- all of the things any loving parent would teach their child to do. However, all of this togetherness masked a secret that haunted Ivy for years: her father was sexually abusing her, from the time she was in the sixth grade. Now, she’s not keeping her abuse a secret anymore. RadioActive Youth Producer Noel Gasca brings us this story.

OVERALL EXCELLENCE – VIDEO

Vivian Feke | @VivianFeke Kent State University

Vivian Feke is a 2016 Kent State graduate. In May, she graduated with two degrees in four years, and studied broadcast journalism and criminal justice. During her senior year, she interned at the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Richfield and WKYC-TV in Cleveland. During Vivian’s time at Kent State, she was actively involved in TV2, Kent State’s student-led television station. She served as the station’s general manager for nearly two years, and TV2 was awarded ‘College Station of the Year’ by the College Media Association during her time as GM. She currently works at WKYC Channel 3 News in Cleveland as a Digital News Producer for the morning show. Making a Diference A woman in Cleveland, Ohio, is making a diference in an unexpected neighborhood.

OVERAL EXCELLENCE – DIGITAL

Alexandra Garretón | @GarretonA Jake Nicol | @jakernicol Chris Schodt | @ChrisSchodt The University of California, Berkley Graduate School of Journalism

Alexandra Garretón is a freelance multimedia and radio journalist in Los Angeles, CA. Most recently she was the associate producer for public radio station KCRW’s special project “Below the Ten: Living in South LA”. She has reported from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Seattle, Washington and produced work for National Geographic, KPCC and KQED. Alexandra completed her master’s degree in journalism at UC Berkeley in May 2015.

#Murrows | RTDNA.ORG 33 Student Award Winners

Jake Nicol is an Oakland, CA based video producer and multimedia journalist. He is currently a staf video journalist with The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco and previously worked as a freelance video producer for National Geographic. His work focuses primarily on social issues, with an emphasis on public health, politics, justice, and investigative reporting. Jake is a recent graduate of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Chris Schodt is a freelance journalist, mutlimedia producer and instructor living in Berkeley CA. His work has been featured by USA Today, Ars Technica, The Guardian, and the BBC. Chris has a science background, and his work focuses on technology and science and how they intersect with society and culture. Chris is a 2015 graduate of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Wiped, Flashed, and Rekitted: The International Black Market of Stolen Cell Phones Your phone, refurbished and repackaged, could wind up in the pocket of a teenager in Hong Kong or a tourist in Rio De Janeiro. From a street thief to a traficker to the overseas businesses that peddle smuggled phones to unsuspecting customers, our project follows the trail of a stolen cell phone from the United States to Brazil.

CONGRATULATIONS

Student Winners

34 #Murrows | October 10, 2016 10 REASONS TO JOIN 1 EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM CONFERENCE | 2 YOUR ADVOCATE IN WASHINGTON | 3 EDUCATION & REPORTING RESOURCES | 4 MEMBER DISCOUNTS & PROGRAMS | 5 EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS | 6 ETHICAL AND LEGAL GUIDANCE | 7 RESEARCH | 8 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 9 NETWORKING | 10 RTDNA.ORG Board of Directors

The RTDNA Board of Directors Congratulates this year’s Edward R. Murrow Award recipients!

Vince Dufy David Louie Andrea Parquet-Taylor RTDNA Chairman RTDNF Trustee Region 8 News Director, Michigan Radio Reporter, KGO-TV News Director, WNCN-TV

Kathy Walker Janice Gin Gary Wordlaw RTDNF Chairwoman RTDNF Trustee Region 9 News Director, KOA Radio Assistant News Director, KRON-TV News Director, WVLA/WGMB-TV

Scott Libin Erica Hill Andrew Vrees RTDNA Chair-Elect Region 1 Region 10 Senior Fellow, University of Minnesota News Director, KCPQ-TV News Director, WCVB-TV

Loren Tobia Brandon Mercer Tim Scheld RTDNA Treasurer Region 2 Region 11 Vice President of Sales, Accuweather Director of Digital Content, SF Gate Director of News and Programming, WCBS-AM Dan Shelley Sheryl Worsley RTDNF Secretary/Treasurer Region 3 Mark Kraham News Director, KSL-AM Region 12 Sean McGarvy News Director, WHAG-TV Director-at-Large Mark Millage Director of Content & Editorial, Region 4 Terence Shepherd WXIN/WTTV-TV Regional Director, Media Minefield Region 13 News Director, WLRN-FM Chip Mahaney Scott Brady Director-at-Large Region 5 Kym Geddes National Director, News Recruitment News Director, KYTV-TV Region 14 The E.W. Scripps Company News Director, Newstalk 1010 David Wagner Kimberly Wyatt Region 6 Mike Cavender Director-at-Large News Director, KLST/KSAN-TV Executive Director, RTDNA/F News Director, WEAR-TV Jam Sardar Blaise Labbe Region 7 Director-at-Large News Director, WLNS-TV News Director, WOAI-TV

36 #Murrows | October 10, 2016 Radio Personality, News Anchor, Journalist (1908–1965)

Born Egbert Roscoe Murrow on April 25, 1908, in Polecat Creek (near Greensboro), North Carolina, Edward R. Murrow grew up in Washington state, and went on to become one of the most highly respected television and radio journalists of the 20th century. Murrow spent some of his summer breaks working on a surveying crew in the region.

At Washington State University, Murrow studied political science, speech and international relations. There, he also changed his first name to Edward. Ater graduating from the university in 1930, Murrow headed up the National Student Federation for two years. He changed jobs in 1930, going to work for the International Institute of Education. As an assistant director, he set up seminars and lectures here and abroad. The organization also helped bring Jewish academics from Germany to the United States.

In 1935, Murrow was hired by CBS to serve as its director of talks. He moved to London, England, two years later to become the head of its operations in Europe. Nearly by accident, Murrow began his career in journalism. Germany invaded Austria in 1938, and he charted a plane to Vienna, Austria, where he covered the event for CBS. He soon developed a network of correspondents to help him report on the growing conflict in Europe. His team, sometimes called “Murrow’s boys,” included William L. Shirer and Eric Sevareid.

Murrow became a fixture on American radio during World War II. During late 1939 to early 1940, he risked life and limb to report on the bombing of London. Murrow transmitted his reports from a rootop instead of an underground shelter and was able to make the blitz real for listeners across the pond. As poet Archibald MacLeish said, according to The New Yorker, Murrow “burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames that burned it.” He also was the first to incorporate ambient sound into his broadcasts, allowing listeners to hear the news happening.

Murrow’s coverage of the war made him an American media hero. Ater the war, however, he struggled to find his footing. He served as a vice president of CBS, running its public afairs ofice for a time. Joining forces with Fred Friendly, in the late 1940s, Murrow began a series of recordings called Hear It Now, which would be later be adapted for an emerging medium called television.

In 1951 he launched the television journalism program, See it Now, which created controversy with an exposé of Joe McCarthy. Murrow let broadcasting in 1961. He died on April 23, 1965, in Pawling, New York. Source: Biography.com THE RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS FOUNDATION PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND

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