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Awards Dinner & Show October 6, 2014 | New York City WinnerWinner ofof 55 EdwardEdward R. Murrow AwardsAwards

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Event Sponsors ...... 5 Letter from the Chairwoman ...... 7 Presenters ...... 8 Overall Excellence ...... 11 Use of Video/Sound ...... 13 Investigative Reporting ...... 14 Continuing Coverage ...... 16 Writing ...... 17 Hard News...... 20 Feature Reporting ...... 21 News Documentary ...... 22 Newscast ...... 24 Website ...... 25 Sports Reporting ...... 26 News Series ...... 27 Breaking News Coverage ...... 28 RTDNA/UNITY Awards ...... 29 AD SPACE eveNt SpONSOrS

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The Boston Globe is proud to uphold Murrow’s legacy.

Congratulations to our staff for winning three national Edward R. Murrow awards for video journalism.

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RTDNA AwARDs DiNNeR & show Welcome to the 44th annual radio Television Digital news Association’s Edward r. murrow awards celebration. Tonight we honor 98 national murrow winners and seven rTDnA/UniTY winners from 59 news new York marriott marquis organizations. october 6, 2014 Tonight we will see and hear some of the winning entries, and honor the dedication and perseverance that exemplify the highest standards of The radio Television Digital news journalism excellence. This year’s stories captured the Boston marathon Association is the world’s largest bombings, the oklahoma tornadoes, the 50th anniversary of JFK’s professional organization exclusively assassination and many others. i encourage you to go online and find serving the electronic news profession, some of the winning pieces. We’ve been highlighting them at rTDnA.org consisting of more than 1000 news over the past few weeks. directors, news associates, educators, and students. i thank you for being here tonight. if you’re not among the more than 1000 rTDnA members around the world, please join us and add your voice Founded as a grassroots organization to the largest organization for electronic journalists in the world. Your in 1946, the association is dedicated to presence tonight and your membership helps support a number of efforts. setting standards for newsgathering and rTDnA is a tireless advocate for upholding the First Amendment. We reporting. continue to work to gain access for television cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court, we push for the creation of a strong federal shield law, and we want an exemption for news and sports coverage from FCC indecency rules.

These are just some of the areas in which rTDnA stands up for and defends journalists. it provides answers to your ethics and access concerns. it trains new and mid-career journalists, AnD provides scholarships to student journalists. on behalf of the rTDnA Board of Directors and our dedicated staff, congratulations to all the winners of the Edward r. murrow Award.

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Amy Tardif Chairwoman, rTDnA Amy Tardif Chairwoman, rTDnA 2014 preSeNterS

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STEVE HARTMAN LESTER HOLT Correspondent, CBS News Anchor, Dateline NBC; Weekend Anchor, NBC Nightly News & TODAY

AMY ROBACH BRIAN ROSS JEREMY SCHAAP Anchor, ABC News Good Chief Investigative Correspondent, Reporter, Host, E:60 Morning America ABC News Correspondent, ESPN

BOB SCHIEFFER AMY TARDIF Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS Chairwoman, RTDNA; News Director News; Host, Face the Nation and Station Manager, WGCU-FM 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 Awards Dinner & show honors all of the national Murrow Award recipients that demonstrate the spirit of excellence that edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news. AD SPACE OverAll exCelleNCe

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT ABC news radio, new York, nY WBir-Tv, Knoxville, Tn ABC News Radio illustrated WBIR is committed to serving excellent newsgathering in the greater good of the breaking situations with community by providing a real depth and vibrancy. wide range of local content In addition, their creative across all media platforms. feature work and digital The Overall Excellence entry effort was unparalleled. showcases our mission to They brought their do the right thing, to be good audience around the world citizens, and to be fair and from Egypt’s Tahrir Square, again the center of anti-government honest. We do what comes “Straight from the Heart.” demonstrations, to violence to South Korea and Japan as tensions grew over a possible North Korean missile test – and from Rome as a TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT new Pope was elected, to South Africa as a legend was buried. WCvB-Tv, Boston, mA In 2013 WCVB, NewsCenter 5 gave the world a front row seat to the events that RADio-sMAll MARkeT followed the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. WDEl, Wilmington, DE The moments after the From breaking news to in-depth blast, the investigation, the reporting on issues affecting our manhunt for the suspects and the stories of victims and survivors community to feature reporting broadcast during hours of continuous coverage, streamed on mobile that highlights the unique stories and shared on social media. Our coverage continued throughout of Delaware, WDEL is proud to be the year with a 6-month reunion that brought many survivors and serving Delaware. In addition to their rescuers together for the irst time since that fateful day and a regular newscasts throughout the year-long Boston Strong series showcasing people going the extra day, WDEL routinely provides live mile to help their communities. In 2013, WCVB-TV’s team continued coverage of breaking news, press to travel the country and the world to provide the best exclusive conferences & major speeches, plus creative feature reporting which stories, investigations, editorials and public service campaigns for captures the lavor of our town – delivered 365 days a year on-air and our viewers and digital users. online. oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge RADio-lARge MARkeT The Washington Post, Washington, DC WBEZ, Chicago, il In 2013 The Washington Post broke new ground in the video We’re proud of the space by launching PostTV, groundbreaking work our an online experience that ties staff did in 2013. Highlights together web, mobile and set-top box TV devices, like Chromecast and include Chicago Public Roku. The new experience enabled The Post’s strong original video School closings, coverage storytelling to reach new audiences with the compelling, emotional of the Illinois penal system which resulted in important changes and informative coverage of current events and features alike. From in access for journalists to the prisons, the role of risk in a vibrant ground-breaking documentary series to live breaking news to smart economy and the huge underground business surrounding the heroin explainer segments, PostTV delivered for viewers on all platforms. market. TelevisioN-NeTwoRk oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-sMAll ABC news, new York, nY The Texas Tribune, Austin, TX

From West Virginia coal mines to The Texas Tribune is a a sub-Saharan village in Ethiopia nonpartisan, nonproit to the favelas of Rio, ABC News media organization that covered stories around the globe promotes civic engagement with distinction and passion in and discourse on public 2013. It was a year illed with policy, politics, government breaking news, riveting newsmaker interviews, game-changing – and other matters of even life-saving investigations, all deined by ABC News’ long-term statewide concern. Our commitment to the important stories of our time. vision is to serve the journalism community as a source of innovation and to build the next great public media brand in the United States. AD SPACE USe Of viDeO/SOUND

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USe Of SOUND USe Of viDeO RADio-NeTwoRk new York Public radio/Public radio TelevisioN-NeTwoRk international, new York, nY nBC news-Dateline, new York, nY JFK’s Unspoken Speech: Lord Keep the City Into The Death Zone Last November The “Into The Death Zone” Takeaway paused for tells the story of three a moment to share a climbers and their story they came across attempts to conquer Mt. during a recent visit to Everest during the 2012 Dallas – a remarkable climbing season. Told project, produced by through irst-person the people of Dallas accounts from video to honor the life of shot by the climbers President Kennedy. themselves, stunning images illustrate the beauty and dangers of trying to reach the Roof It was called the of the World. “Unspoken Speech” – and was based on the speech Kennedy had prepared – and was on his way to deliver - before he was shot. It was this speech that provided the starting point for a special composition TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT for the South Dallas Concert Choir. The piece was ilmed and recorded in the Trades Mart where 50 years ago, hundreds gathered to hear a WTvr, richmond, vA speech that, in the end, was never made. The Cuban: Strokes of Survival Tico Sanchez takes extraordinary steps to start a new life in the United RADio-sMAll MARkeT States. He battles rough seas and exhaustion during a two-day swim WATD-Fm, marshfield, mA to freedom. This is a true story of looking for and inding the American Dream, but Tico had to work much harder to achieve it. Peepers: A Call of Love To many people, the sound TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT of the local springtime frogs King-Tv, Seattle, WA or peepers is the sound of spring. Christine James’ Scott Jensen Composite story tells you all about their springtime call of love and This collection of stories is intended to demonstrate the call to love, all enhanced by photojournalist’s range of skills. From capturing the action and some appropriate music to reaction of a neighborhood set the mood, so to speak. inferno, to inding a soulful life lesson at a memorial procession, to carefully crafting an emotional RADio-lARge MARkeT feature, success is achieved in a variety of shooting and KQED, San Francisco, CA deadline situations. On the Elephant Seal Dating Scene, It’s All About Bravado Love is in the air on California oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge beaches this time of year, when northern elephant seals Bay Area news group, San Jose, CA arrive by the thousands for Magic in Motion: Behind the Scenes at the Circus Vargas breeding season. Males make plenty of noise at Ano Nuevo State Reserve, north of Santa Cruz, but it sounds more like a chorus of motorcycles than the melodious sounds of Barry White.

The internationally acclaimed Circus Vargas troupe brought their colorful acrobatic show to Bay Area audiences in 2013. Photojournalist Dai Sugano documented main-stage performances and backstage preparations, capturing magical, surreal images most people never see. These behind-the-scenes perspectives are, in their own way, as powerful as those from the center ring. iNveStigAtive repOrtiNg

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT national Public radio, Washington, DC Wvir-Tv, Charlottesville, vA Buried in Grain University of Virginia Medical Center Sends Family Home with An investigation by NPR and the Amputated Body Parts Center for Public Integrity found that persistent worker deaths in grain NBC29’s nearly year-long storage bins, and a horriic incident investigation uncovered in Illinois in 2010, drew tepid responses from federal regulators. the University of Virginia Despite repeated violations, entrapments and deaths, regulators Medical Center was dramatically cut ines, even when employers were negligent and covering up what some willful. would call a hospital horror. A family, already mourning a young father RADio-sMAll MARkeT killed in a farming accident, was sent home with a bag of his body parts instead of WFPl news, louisville, KY personal belongings. The Man With Many Chances An investigation found that fundamental TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT failures throughout Indiana’s criminal WCPo-Tv, Cincinnati, oH justice system allowed a serial rapist to continue his predatory habits with little 9-1-1 Roulette intervention. Reporter R.G. Dunlop spent WCPO exposed dangerous problems months examining court records, documents, in Cincinnati’s 9-1-1 system. Calling transcripts, uncovering how Richard Hooten for help had become a game of slipped through the cracks. Could a teen’s chance. Some operators were murder have been prevented? medically trained. Others were not and required to hang up after sending an ambulance. Our investigation RADio-lARge MARkeT exposed a broken system. WgBH radio, Boston, mA Underground Trade-Human Traficking oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-sMAll inewsource, San Diego, CA WGBH Radio’s Senior Reporter, Phillip Martin, traveled from Boston to New York to East Asia to explore the modern slave trade of Poway Schools Rely On Mello-Roos Tax Machine For Lunches, human traficking. This in-depth exploration of a disturbing reality – a route likened to a reverse Signs And Old School Repairs Underground Railroad where Homeowners paying special individuals are bound in captivity property taxes to build a school rather than heading towards in their neighborhood learn freedom. there is no room in the school for their kids. An inewsource investigation reveals the extra taxes were used as a virtual ATM by the school district - paying for TelevisioN-NeTwoRk catered lunches and a new administration building. CBS news 60 minutes, new York, nY 60 Minutes: Lethal Medicine Scott Pelley investigates a oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge compounding pharmacy called The Boston globe, Boston, mA NECC, which was the source of tainted pain medication that For Boston Cabbies, a Losing Battle Against the Numbers caused a fungal meningitis Boston’s cabbies can be a surly outbreak, and has so far has killed lot, but consider what they more than 50 Americans and endure; a Globe investigation sickened hundreds more. inds a taxi trade where leet owners get rich, drivers are frequently leeced, and the city does little about it. AD SPACE CONtiNUiNg COverAge

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT CBS radio news, new York, nY WvUE-Tv, new orleans, lA Boston Marathon Bombing Body of Evidence

With a producer on scene, “Body of Evidence” unveils CBS Radio News was on a complex system of the air immediately after corruption and abuse twin explosions at the by the coroner of St. Boston marathon. With Tammany Parish. Once the help of WBZ Radio and Lee Zurik and the WVUE WBZ-TV, they immediately team began digging, an launched into continuous unprecedented recall coverage and short-form effort sprang up within reports every ten minutes. weeks, the coroner had a lucrative contract cancelled, and the FBI CBS sent four network radio news correspondents to Boston to cover opened its own investigation that ended with the coroner resigning every angle of this fast-changing story. and pleading guilty in federal court. RADio-sMAll MARkeT TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT KnAU, Flagstaff, AZ UWm Panthervision, milwaukee, Wi Losing the Granite Mountain Hotshots School Shooting Safety: Act of Malpractice? Week after week, the university In June of 2013, a wildire that ignited in ignored our stories. Lawmakers a small community in northern Arizona didn’t want to get involved, nor claimed the lives of all but one member of did the Board of Regents. But the Prescott Granite Mountain Hotshots. diligent, persistent and hard- On the national level, it set a new record nosed reporting by a remarkable for the highest death toll of wildland group of student journalists ireighters in a single incident. On the local level, the heartbreaking eventually brought results, and record had been set by hometown heroes. the university is instituting changes to address the laws exposed by our investigation. RADio-lARge MARkeT WBZ, Boston, mA oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge The Boston globe, Boston, mA Boston Marathon Bombing Boston Marathon Bombing What started out as a positive and triumphant day in Boston, quickly We captured the tension- turned to chaos and unanswered packed week in the city. questions. As the city scrambled for Coverage continued as we answers, the WBZ team took on the went to Krygzstan, Russia responsibility of keeping the public safe and informed by providing where we reported on the extensive Marathon Bombing coverage for the city to turn to. background of the suspects. We spent 7 months with a bombing victim and followed her from the bombings TelevisioN-NeTwoRk through rehabilitation. ABC news, new York, nY The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak

Last May, a massive EF-5 twister touched down, roaring toward Moore, Oklahoma. ABC News positioned a team well in advance of the storm, and in the hours and weeks that followed, provided viewers with the whole picture of how the storm impacted this bedroom community. writiNg

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-NeTwoRk CBS news radio news, new York, nY CBS news, new York, nY Bob Schieffer The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Steve Hartman ‘On The Road’ CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer has been covering DC politics for 45 years. Each week, he interviews top politicians and government leaders on Face the Nation. So, he has The CBS Evening News some unique insight into Congressional gridlock and how things with Scott Pelly goes might one day be different. ‘On the Road’ with Steve Hartman to meet a World War II veteran at Normandy who says that was nothing compared to the greatest battle of his life, a young girl who started her own business to help pay her mother’s medical expenses, and a New York photographer and his bizarre twist on matchmaking.

TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT WSBT, mishawaka, in Ted Land Composite People are the story. They bring issues and events to life and are the foundation of almost everything we do as journalists. This compilation RADio-sMAll MARkeT of stories, which were shot, KnAU, Flagstaff, AZ written, and edited by WSBT Multimedia Journalist Ted Building Hope in Haiti - Flagstaff Responds to Land, demonstrates the Humanitarian Crisis importance of the human element in TV news writing. Like many cities across the world, Flagstaff, Arizona sent an emergency medical crew to Haiti after a devastating earthquake rocked the country in 2010. But, three years later, Flagstaff remains 3rd in the world, next to New York City and Miami, for volunteerism TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT rates in Haiti. This series explores a true love story between a little WXiA-WATl-Tv, Atlanta, gA mountain town in Arizona and the most impoverished country in the western hemisphere. Jaye Watson

A choir director starts a choir made up of homeless RADio-lARge MARkeT men. A woman leaves the georgia Public Broadcasting, Atlanta, gA corporate world to help people leave nothing unsaid. All Quiet, One Year After Macon Kroger Shooting A service dog becomes a life-saving best friend to Adam Ragusea wades through the a boy whose life was lived cloud of confusion surrounding the in hospitals. All stories in death of an unarmed black man at which the actions of one changed the lives of many. the hands of a white police oficer in Macon, Georgia. His retrospective report untangles months of speculation to reveal the simple, sad truth of what happened in front of that busy grocery at Christmastime. AD SPACE AD SPACE hArD NewS

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT American Public media/marketplace, los Angeles, CA WgrZ-Tv, Buffalo, nY China’s Toxic Harvest: Growing Tainted Food in ‘Cancer Kendra Webdale’s Killer Speaks Villages’ Two On Your Side’s Scott Brown traveled Marketplace China Correspondent to the Sullivan Correctional facility in Rob Schmitz tells the story of a downstate New York to speak with Chinese farming family who loses Andrew Golsdtein. In the 90’s he pushed their 15 year-old son to cancer Kendra Webdale in front of a New York City caused by chemical waste from a subway train, killing her. Scott interviewed nearby factory. Burdened by debt Goldstein and then showed the interview to from his hospital stay, the family Webdale’s parents. Since Webdale’s death, makes the agonizing decision to sell New York State has passed Kendra’s Law. It allows courts to order contaminated rice into China’s food outpatient treatment for mentally ill people who have stopped taking supply. medication and have a history of violence. TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT RADio-sMAll MARkeT KArE-Tv, minneapolis, mn WiTF, Harrisburg, PA Know Before You Tow Drilling Waste, Politics and a Pile of Dirt A crash involving an unhitched A pile of dirt sparked controversy in the trailer is the starting point for this city of Sunbury in central Pennsylvania. cautionary tale for those who tow. In The dirt in question sits in a rail yard and heartbreaking detail and dramatic covers about an acre of an old industrial images, the KARE team follows up site located in a lood plain. StateImpact with both a mother who lost her Pennsylvania’s Marie Cusick visited the daughter and husband, as well as the community to check on the situation. driver who caused their deaths.

RADio-lARge MARkeT oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-sMAll WFAE-Charlotte’s nPr news Source, Charlotte, nC inewsource, San Diego, CA Moral Mondays The Truth About Nathan Fletcher: A Mayoral Candidate In spring 2013, religious leaders Reveals Childhood Abuse and the North Carolina chapter of Facing intense media pressure the NAACP began weekly protests about inconsistencies in his of Governor Pat McCrory and personal narrative, a former Republican legislative leaders. More California assemblyman and than 900 were arrested in these candidate for San Diego mayor protests, called Moral Mondays. This story shows the passion behind talks about the childhood abuse the demonstrations, and the orchestration between protesters and he suffered at the hands of his police. father. The exclusive interview illed in gaps in records obtained by TelevisioN-NeTwoRk inewsource from the courts. ABC news, new York, nY Raid in the Phillipines oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge The new York Times, new York, nY Nightline went undercover in the Philippines, an infamous haven for sex A Deadly Dance tourism and underage traficking. The team had hidden cameras rolling as Heroin has been making an alarming comeback in the smaller cities an American bar owner bragged about and towns of New England. The New York Times reports a surge in selling underage girls for sex with heroin use in Maine is contributing to a rash of fatal overdoses. foreign tourists. In the wake of the Raid and Nightline’s report, the man was arrested and charged with child abuse, and several notorious sex bars have been shut down. feAtUre repOrtiNg

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT Studio 360 from WnYC and Pri, new York, nY WTvr, richmond, vA Can Trauma Be Healed with Design? ‘I Wish I Was Never Born: JFK’s Haunted Secret Service Agent When tragedy strikes a school or another President Kennedy’s death shocked ordinary location, what should be done with our nation in 1963. One Virginian, who the building afterward? Destroy it, make witnessed the crime, has been reliving it a living memorial, or pretend nothing the nightmare every November 22nd for happened? Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky half a century. We introduce you to Win explores how architects worked with Virginia Lawson, a former Secret Service agent, Tech, Columbine High School, and the movie who still struggles knowing his Kennedy Detail failed to protect the theater in Aurora, Colorado. President.

TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT RADio-sMAll MARkeT KArE-Tv, minneaoplis, mn WSlU-Fm, Canton, nY Climbing Out How the Rockefeller Drug Laws Changed America Sentenced to more than ten years North Country Public Radio spent in federal prison for dealing nearly two years working to understand drugs, Michael Billoti discovered and explain to audiences America’s a hidden talent. His paintings now 40- year drug war and the rise of mass bring comfort to grieving families. incarceration, bringing new context to a complex and often painful Shut out by an obstinate prison story. Reporter Brian Mann also documented the rise of prisons as warden, reporter Boyd Huppert an economic force in rural America. and photojournalist Jonathan Malat waited two years for Billoti’s release to complete his story. RADio-lARge MARkeT WTmJ, milwaukee, Wi Young Historians of World War II oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge The Washington Post, Washington, DC WTMJ’s Erik Bilstad spoke with middle school students Shelley & Bill: A Love Story from Hartland, Wisconsin who were documenting the On the eve of their irst experiences of Holocaust Valentine’s Day as a married survivors and World War II couple, Shelley Belgard and veterans. The students uncovered stories that even the vets’ families Bill Ott tell the story of their had never heard. In one case, a veteran died just days after revealing unique romance that has some of his experiences to the students. Had it not been for these spanned the decades. This interested and engaged young people, the vet’s family would never story was The Washington have learned of his tale. Post’s major Valentine’s Day offering for 2013 and was a tandem effort between the paper’s weekly magazine and the video TelevisioN-NeTwoRk department. CBS news, new York, nY The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley: Sandy Hook Troopers

CBS Evening News had the irst – and only – interview with a trooper from Sandy Hook CT and the grief stricken family he was assigned to shield. Scott Pelley revealed how this relationship helped pave the way from death… back to life. NewS DOCUmeNtArY

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-NeTwoRk State of the re:Union, Jacksonville, Fl ESPn, Bristol, CT The Hospital Always Wins Carry On Producer Laura Starecheski spent nine years In 2009, Dartanyon Crockett and Leroy Sutton, following Issa Ibrahim, an artist and patient at a two high school wrestling teammates, were state mental hospital in Queens, N.Y., to report proiled on national television. Dartanyon, this story. Listeners are drawn deep into a world who is legally blind, carried on his back to of delusions and institutional dysfunction as Issa every match his friend Leroy, a double amputee. This is the story of struggles for release from custody and redemption what happened after that story – of how the unconditional support of a through his art. television producer created an unlikely family and opened doors that led to a triumph at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. RADio-sMAll MARkeT TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT WUoT-Fm, Knoxville, Tn oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, or My HIV Life Oregon Field Guide’s ‘Glacier Caves: Mt. Hood’s Secret World’ In “I’m Still Here: My HIV Life,” ive HIV survivors lead listeners on an emotional OPB reports on a grueling journey through their day-to-day lives. expedition to map and explore the They speak of their incurable disease largest glacier cave system in the in bold, honest terms, relecting on the lower 48 states. The caves- located loneliness, the pain and the hope they now in Oregon’s Mt. Hood wilderness- have for a future that once seemed inconceivable. are a place of remarkable beauty and danger that reveal a never- before-seen portrait of glacial meltdown. RADio-lARge MARkeT KAlW radio, San Francisco, CA oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-sMAll The Race to an Emergency AuDio The Seattle globalist, Seattle, WA “The Race to an Emergency” is a one-hour radio documentary that Generation Putin takes the listener on a journey along the path of a 9-1-1 call in In 2012, young people in Russia, Oakland, California. We explore Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Georgia face how the emergency response unemployment, democratic pressure, system operates and why it may not serve all neighborhoods equally. and the legacy of repression, while being inluenced by the West, punk music, and the Pussy Riot trials. Host Brooke Gladstone, The Seattle Globalist and PRX offer an in- depth look at the post-Soviet millennial generation. TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT viDeo KETv, omaha, nE newsy, Columbia, mo KETV NewsWatch 7 Chronicle: Mission to Africa Three Counties Out: Guns and the Heartland A native of South Sudan, Africa, “Three Counties Out: Guns and the Omaha Doctor Joseph Dumba Heartland” explores the clash of Midwest makes annual visits to his home gun culture and the tragic effects of current country with a team of Omaha- irearm laws on America’s inner cities. Set area medical volunteers. Together, helped by inancial support upon the backdrop of the national gun from the people of Omaha, they bring much-needed medical care to debate, this ilm shows the marginalization of urban environments the people of the war-torn country. Julie Cornell and Andrew Ozaki on the issue of gun control. traveled with the team to document the work they do for the people of South Sudan. oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge TimE magazine, new York, nY Healing Bobby Bobby Henline is a veteran of four tours to Iraq and the sole survivor of an IED blast that killed the other four soldiers in his Humvee in Iraq in 2007. A third of his body was burned and he is now a standup comedian, launching a new career with a routine built around his injuries. SEPTEMBERAD SPACE 18-20, 2015 OrlandO WOrld Center MarriOtt

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-NeTwoRk CBS radio news, new York, nY CBS news, new York, nY CBS World News Roundup The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley

An entire suburban Boston CBS News distinguishes itself neighborhood was locked down as from other network newscasts police searched for the surviving because of our unwavering focus suspect in the Boston marathon on original reporting. Original bombings. CBS Radio’s World reporting not only means inding News Roundup provided extensive exclusive content on a daily coverage of the manhunt with basis, but it also means inding reports from the scene, an in- unique and interesting ways to depth look at what investigators tell the stories that everyone is were learning and analysis from covering. anti-terror experts. The CBS World News Roundup, America’s longest- running newscast, is anchored by Steve Kathan and produced by Paul Farry. TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT KoKi, Tulsa, oK RADio-sMAll MARkeT FOX23 News at 5 WDEl, Wilmington, DE On May 20, 2013 a tornado Delaware’s Morning News o u t b r e a k swept through Delaware’s Morning News is co- O k l a h o m a . anchored by Peter MacArthur The twisters and Mellany Armstrong. On this destroyed neighborhoods, knocked out power and took the lives of particular day, WDEL reporters two dozen people. FOX23 crews spread out all over the hardest-hit covered a bomb scare at the county areas bringing viewers stories of heartache, survival and recovery. courthouse, the Delaware National Guard shipping overseas, and a meeting about a school which was being closed by the state, plus TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT interviewed the newly conirmed county police chief. We also provided WFAA, Dallas, TX locally produced trafic and sports reports. North Texas Tornadoes In the midst of severe weather coverage on WFAA, our helicopter captured live pictures of one of a series of tornadoes tearing across RADio-lARge MARkeT multiple counties. The outbreak killed six people and ripped apart KCBS, San Francisco, CA subdivisions. Our staff provided captivating, yet compassionate coverage on multiple platforms during our 10pm newscast. KCBS 6PM News “Proposition 8 is dead.” That was one attorney’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 26 that the backers of the initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California had no standing to appeal a federal court ruling that repealed the ban. The story dominated the KCBS 5PM newscast, with reaction from both sides, reports from San Francisco City Hall, the Castro District, and county clerk ofices, and legal analysis of the ruling. webSite

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT nPr, Washington, DC WJXT, Jacksonville, Fl NPR.org News4jax.com The work of NPR.org has been to extend News4Jax.com is the the public radio mission, and the station online companion to WJXT- partnership, to digital audiences. NPR was TV, reaching viewers a pioneering voice – literally – in providing when they’re away from journalistic information as something more than a civic chore. television and providing additional resources to people watching our NPR elevated it to a satisfying form of emotional and intellectual newscasts. It is the most-visited local website in the Jacksonville experience. The power of the human voice, so central to our founding market, winning the audience with breaking news, daily stories, principles, remains core to the work we’re doing across NPR.org. weather, sports, consumer news, politics and entertainment on the web, smartphones and tablets. RADio-sMAll MARkeT KBiA-Fm, Columbia, mo oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-sMAll KBIA AuDio KBIA’s entry included digital-only content, like the Missouri Drone WFiU/WTiU, Bloomington, in Journalism Project, breaking news live blogs, and Como Explained, a local news StateImpact Indiana Education explainer podcast. Other exceptional StateImpact Indiana is a reporting digital storytelling efforts included interactive maps and audio boards collaboration focused on covering the to complement on-air offerings, video mini-documentaries, and digital impact of education policy on Hoosiers’ assets for other special reporting projects. lives. The reporters get to know those affected by decisions made at the statehouse and tell their stories through sound-rich pieces. The RADio-lARge MARkeT winning audio entry included samples of stories about testing, the minnesota Public radio, Saint Paul, mn Common Core and standards. In each piece, the reporters took the stories out of the statehouse and into homes and schools across the MPR news.org state. MPRnews.org provides audiences with up-to-the-minute news viDeo and in-depth coverage of issues through stories, photos, audio, The Texas Tribune, Austin, TX video, and live blogs. The Texas Tribune The Texas Tribune is a nonpartisan, TelevisioN-NeTwoRk nonproit media organization that Univision network news, miami, Fl promotes civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics, La Huella Digital government and other matters of statewide concern. Our vision is to serve the journalism community as a source of innovation and to build “La Huella Digital” (The Digital the next great public media brand in the United States. Footprint) is Univision News’ digital special projects website. It produces long-form digital content to supplement Univision’s breaking news, its news documentaries and oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge investigative reports. Produced by a team of multi-media reporters, Detroit Free Press, Detroit, mi coders and designers, these long-form articles include original reporting, videos, interactive graphics, photography and slideshows. Detroit Free Press Website Publishing in both English and Spanish, “La Huella Digital” connects The Detroit Free Press brings up-to-the minute news and information with Univision’s multi-generational, bicultural, and bilingual audience. through it’s website, Freep.com. Covering and living in the bankrupt city of Detroit, the Freep staff is the people’s watchdog – making Freep a must-read, must-watch website and the place to talk about Detroit TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT and its future. KJrH, Tulsa, oK KJRH.com Coverage of Moore Tornado KJRH.com is dedicated to providing the most current, relevant and accurate news and weather impacting our community. We are committed to providing the highest quality of journalism and in-depth storytelling similar to our coverage of the devastating tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma in 2013. SpOrtS repOrtiNg

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-NeTwoRk ESPn, Bristol, CT ESPn, Bristol, CT E:60 Enemy Within The Lady Jags: Losing to Win

It is a program steeped in No team has more history and tradition, where the consecutive losses than game of football symbolizes so the Lady Jags of Carroll much more - honor, discipline, Academy, an alternative loyalty. But this fall, at the US high school in Huntingdon, Naval Academy, football has Tennessee. Despite a record also brought controversy. As the 213 defeats on the basketball Midshipmen prepared to kick off court, Carroll Academy their 2013 season, reports were coaches say the team is circulating of a military hearing in which three Navy football players winning. For these at-risk kids who use the sport as a way to stay in faced charges of raping a fellow midshipman. As disturbing as the school and out of state custody, every loss is still a victory. details of the alleged assault were accounts of the treatment of the alleged victim. Questions about her behavior and honesty, about her TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT sexual practices and wardrobe, an overarching sense of retaliation and intimidation. This case is far from an isolated incident. Rather, it WTvr-Tv, richmond, vA illustrates a crisis of sexual assault in the military as a whole, where, Out On The Field according to the Defense Department, 26,000 service members said they were targets of unwanted sexual contact last year. Of those, only Most football fans do not believe 3,374 were actually reported. Featuring hard hitting interviews with a gay athlete could survive, let Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and US Senators leading the call for alone prosper inside America’s reform, reporter Jeremy Schaap examines the issue of sexual assault favorite sport. Kevin Grayson begs in the military through the powerful stories of two once promising to differ. One of Central Virginia’s athletes and service members whose careers and lives were shattered, most decorated players, Grayson and who fell victim to the system. A special E:60 investigation. achieved success at every level while carrying an enormous secret; one he shared with us to help RADio-sMAll MARkeT others in similar situations. WmSi-Fm, Jackson, mS TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT Big Leaguers, Small Town KCET, Burbank, CA When the Atlanta Braves came to Pearl, Nothing To Cheer About MS to play an exhibition game against some of their minor league stars, news Between the sky-high tosses, director Randy Bell was there to capture the human pyramids and Olympic- excitement the area’s biggest sports event in worthy acrobatics, cheerleader recent history—talking to players, fans and a injuries are at an all-time broadcaster returning to his old ballpark. high. In fact, cheerleading ranks second only to football in catastrophic injuries, including brain damage and paralysis. In this profound report, we examine the dangers of what many consider a perfectly safe activity. RADio-lARge MARkeT KUT Fm, Austin, TX oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge Yahoo, Santa monica, CA Blind Marathoner Game of Change On April 15, 2013 a 43 year-old Austinite An all-white college basketball named William Greer ran the Boston team deied state segregation Marathon. It’s among the toughest in laws to play against a team with the country: Unpredictable weather. African-American starters in the Unforgiving hills. But for Greer, there’s 1963 NCAA Tournament regional one more complication: he’s legally blind. semiinal game. The “Game of In this story, we hear how he – and his Change” broke historical barriers sighted guide – overcome that challenge. and created a life-long bond between the players of Mississippi State and Loyola University Chicago. NewS SerieS

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT nPr, Washington, DC WvUE-Tv and nolA.com/The Times Picayune, new Crime in Latin America orleans, lA Louisiana Purchased In 2013, NPR’s Morning Edition produced a series of reports on “Louisiana Purchased” is the most crime in Latin America, which comprehensive investigation into the is home to almost all of the big business of the state’s campaign world’s most violent cities. This inancing in the history of Louisiana. submission, drawn from that WVUE and NOLA.com/The Times series, includes three dramatic Picayune exposed illegal activities, questionable practices and reports from Venezuela, which is toothless ethics enforcement. “Louisiana Purchased” led to exceedingly dangerous even by politicians admitting they broke the law, legislators changing state Latin American standards. laws, and the FBI launching a grand jury investigation.

RADio-sMAll MARkeT TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT KnAU, Flagstaff, AZ WFAA, Dallas, TX Building Hope In Haiti - Flagstaff Responds to Humanitarian Ending Domestic Violence Crisis In 2013, WFAA pulled the curtain back on the epidemic of domestic violence in our community. Like many cities across the world, What started with a heart-wrenching 9-1-1 tape Flagstaff, Arizona sent an emergency capturing the murder of a young woman, led to medical crew to Haiti after a devastating policy changes, and a partnership with the mayor earthquake rocked the country in 2010. of Dallas in his crusade to end abuse. But three years later, Flagstaff remains 3rd in the world, next to New York City and Miami, for volunteerism rates in Haiti. This series explores a true oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-sMAll love story between a little mountain town in Arizona and the most The news-Press media group, Fort myers, Fl impoverished country in the western hemisphere. A Spark of Hope: One Family’s Journey RADio-lARge MARkeT WCPn, Cleveland, oH

The Working Poor News-press.com is Southwest Florida’s digital leader for breaking news, investigations and in-depth narrative storytelling. The “working poor” are people The award-winning site offers quality locally produced text, who have a job - maybe several photographic and video journalism 24-7 on its web, mobile and - yet barely scrape by. They’re social media platforms. The site is also the go-to place for things to often invisible... mopping the do, dining reviews and business. loors after closing, taking fares at a parking garage, or frying your burger behind the oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge counter. ideastream’s Brian Bull shares these proiles in the series The Working Poor. The Dallas morning news, Dallas, TX The Girl in the Closet TelevisioN-NeTwoRk CBS news 60 minutes, new York, nY Lauren Kavanaugh made national headlines in June 2001, as “The Girl in the Closet.” Her parents had tortured and starved her for 60 Minutes: Guantanamo and Gitmo six years. She was kept in darkness, in a room about the size of a double bed, forced to sleep in her own waste and to eat carpet Lesley Stahl gets unprecedented access to fibers in a desperate attempt to survive. She was hospitalized and the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility where the released. Her parents were sent to prison, and Lauren slipped out accused 9-11 terrorists will face trial in the of the public mind. biggest war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg. “Guantanamo” reported on the handful of Back in 2011, reporter Scott Farwell began to wonder what had prisoners going to trial, “Gitmo” focused on the become of her. That question initiated a two-year quest to tell her remaining prisoners, many of whom can’t be story, which culminated in an eight-part series. It was a powerful tried. study in pain and redemption, and it drew a stronger public reaction than any narrative feature we have ever published. breAkiNg NewS COverAge

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT ABC news radio, new York, nY WmBD-Tv, Peoria, il Boston Marathon Manhunt Central Illinois Tornado Outbreak - 11/17/13 ABC News Radio was on the air within The landscape of central Illinois was minutes of the explosions and for the forever changed on the morning of next ive days broadcast irst-rate long- Sunday, November 17, 2013. An EF-4 form coverage, special reports, and tornado ripped through the area for 46 comprehensive hour-long specials packed with exclusive information, miles, killing two people and injuring on-the-scene reporting, and emotional witness and victim accounts. more than 125. WMBD 31 crews were on the air, online, and on social media before, during and after the storm, RADio-sMAll MARkeT providing critical life-saving information WATD-Fm, Boston, mA to our viewers. Our entry is a small sample of the more than four hours of Boston Marathon Bombing live coverage that day. It was a scene of chaos, confusion, and courage at the inish line. WATD’s newsroom used contacts at the marathon, runners, law enforcement TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT oficials and a terrorism expert to bring WJlA-Tv, Arlington, vA listeners accurate, timely, and constant information, beginning at 2:50pm Tragedy at Washington’s Navy Yard Monday, until Friday night when the September 16th was the deadliest day in second suspect was apprehended. the nation’s capital since 9/11. WJLA-TV has the largest staff in town and committed all of our resources to covering the mass RADio-lARge MARkeT shooting at the Washington Navy Yard. We WToP radio, Washington, DC were irst on the scene and our wall-to-wall continuous coverage was extraordinary. Navy Yard Shooting The morning of September 16th, 2013, started out like any other Monday morning at the Washington Navy Yard. But soon, gunire sent oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-sMAll people running for their lives. We eventually FreePressmedia, Burlington, vT learned thirteen people, including the gunman Aaron Alexis, lay dead. WTOP reporters quickly got to the scene, River Rescue in Jericho relaying back as much information as they could get their hands on. It was the second-deadliest mass murder on a U.S. military base, behind only the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009.

TelevisioN-NeTwoRk On a rainy night in July, a young woman found herself at the bottom nBC news, new York, nY of a gorge along the Browns River ighting for her life. If not for the selless act of one man, that life would have been lost. FreePressMedia Boston Marathon Bombing tells the story of that rescue. Within minutes of explosions at the Boston Marathon NBC News set the standard for covering the oNliNe News oRgANizATioN-lARge story with eyewitness accounts, The Boston globe, Boston, mA forensic experts and detailed reporting on the scene. From Boston Marathon Bombings Breaking News the chaos of the bombings to the frantic search for suspects, NBC News led the national coverage with Explosions burst through the air and our team comprehensive and accurate reporting. reacted immediately, capturing the horror of the aftermath. As the week unfolded, we put together a video that started when the bombs went off until the suspects were captured and killed. rtDNA UNitY AwArD wiNNerS

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RADio-NeTwoRk TelevisioN-sMAll MARkeT Pri’s “The World,” Boston, mA WKAr-Tv, E. lansing, mi Global Nation: Stories of a Changing America and its People U.S. v. Narcisco, Perez & Press In 1976, after an intense FBI investigation, the government charged two nurses — Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez — with conspiracy and murder for injecting patients at the VA Hospital in Ann Arbor. The Global Nation desk at PRI’s “The World” focuses coverage on Through interviews, archival footage, and FBI documents obtained immigrant life in the US. Beyond the policy debates are the real-world via FOIA, this half-hour ilm reconstructs the nurses’ trial. stories of America’s foreign-born residents. We hear about their challenges and successes, and how America’s uneven immigration laws affect their lives—and the fabric of our nation.

RADio-sMAll MARkeT Alabama Public radio, Tuscaloosa, Al TelevisioN-lARge MARkeT Remembering 1963 KABC-Tv, los Angeles, CA Alabama Public Radio spent 2013 reporting Witness: The Legacy of Heart Mountain on the 50th anniversary of key moments in the civil rights movement in 1963. 17 It was an internment camp that sat features and a documentary focused on in the shadow of Heart Mountain. events including the 16th Street Baptist Ten thousand locked up behind Church bombing and the “children’s barbed wire and machine guns. Their march,” where teenaged marchers were only crime was being Japanese- met with ire hoses and police dogs. American. What happened to these citizens 70 years ago still stands as a reminder of how fragile our rights are and how they must be RADio-lARge MARkeT fearlessly defended. KUoW Public radio, Seattle, WA Black In Seattle oNliNe News oRgANizATioN Each year, more blacks leave the Seattle city Comcast, Philadelphia, PA limits in the rear view mirror. The stories of those who stay are as diverse as black America His Dream, Our Stories: The Legacy of the March on and as compelling as the American dream. Washington KUOW’s “Black In Seattle” is supported by demographic analysis, shoe-leather reporting Commemorating the 50th and community engagement. anniversary of the March on Washington, “His Dream, Our Stories” is an interactive video archive of more than 100 interviews with the TelevisioN-NeTwoRk women and men who worked ESPn Films, new York, nY together with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or whose lives were forever changed by his vision. Venus Vs. Venus Williams changed the course of her sport. With a deep sense of obligation to Billie Jean King, Williams challenged the practice of paying women tennis players less money than their male counterparts at the French Open and Wimbledon. In 2007, Wimbledon relented and Venus became the irst women’s champion to earn as much as the men’s. bOArD Of DireCtOrS

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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 irst name to Edward. After 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 conlict in Europe. His team, sometimes called “Murrow’s boys,” included William L. Shirer and Eric Sevareid.

Murrow became a ixture 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 rooftop 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 lames that burned it.” He also was the irst 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. After the war, however, he struggled to ind his footing. He served as a vice president of CBS, running its public affairs 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 left broadcasting in 1961. He died on April 23, 1965, in Pawling, New York.

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