Tag: Awards
POV captures five of PBS’s nine news and documentary Emmys
PBS topped all the other broadcast networks, as runners-up ABC and CBS each won seven. POV’s “Last Train Home,” a film about Chinese ...Great Expectations exceeds expectations by winning four of PBS’s 11 Creative Arts Primetime Emmys
As a Masterpiece production competing against other miniseries, movies and specials, Great Expectations received Emmys for outstanding achievement in costume design (Annie Symons, Yvonne Duckett), art direction ...WNYC, EarthFix lead pubmedia’s award winners at ONA 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Public media continues to earn accolades for its online innovations, as multiple outlets racked up trophies at the Online News ...Journalism Center on Children and Families – Casey Medals
Pubradio won a pair of medals for reportage on youth and families. WYNC’s Radio Rookies won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism ...2012 RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards
WNYC led public media in the 2012 national Edward R. Murrow Awards announced June 12 by the Radio Television Digital News Association. ...Investigative Reporters & Editors Awards
California Watch and KQED received IRE’s highest honor for “On Shaky Ground.” California Watch, a nonpartisan group of investigative journalists, and the San ...PRNDI Awards for local journalism
KPCC and Vermont Public Radio led public radio news rooms in PRNDI’s three-tiered contest honoring outstanding local news coverage. In the competition among ...PRNDI honored former NPR news chief Ellen Weiss for significant contributions to public radio news.
Weiss worked at NPR for 28 years, rising to senior v.p. of news in 2007, a post she held for four years. ...Association of Public Radio Engineers Awards
Mike Starling received the Meritorious Service Award for spearheading technological innovation within NPR and at its stations. Starling, executive director of the Technology ...Three trophies put WNYC atop pubmedia’s Murrow winners
WNYC led public media in the 2012 national Edward R. Murrow Awards announced June 12 by the Radio Television Digital News Association. ...Lourdes Garcia-Navarro was honored for distinguished reporting from the world’s most volatile regions.
NPR’s Jerusalem-based foreign correspondent received CPB’s highest award, recognizing outstanding contributions to public radio, during an April 9 dinner attended by top ...WUFT, VPR led pubcasters in regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.
Among the 54 public stations receiving regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for electronic journalism, WUFT-FM of Gainesville, Fla., won eight, and Vermont ...StoryCorps’ multiplatform production on the anniversary of 9/11 earned a prize for public radio and ...
The Peabody-winning segment aired on NPR’s Morning Edition and featured interviews that had been adapted as animated shorts for PBS’s POV. The award, one ...Los Angeles Press Club Awards, 2011
KPCC’s Susan Valot and KCRW’s Kim Masters were recognized among best journalists in Los Angeles. Valot, a reporter who covers Orange County ...Knight-Batten Award, 2011
NPR social media specialist Andy Carvin received a Knight-Batten Award for innovation in journalism. Carvin, whose job as the network’s senior social media ...
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