Awards
‘Frontline,’ ‘POV’ tie for best documentary at news Emmy Awards
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The public broadcaster won 17 statuettes.
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The public broadcaster won 17 statuettes.
NPR, The Texas Tribune and Missouri’s KBIA-FM were among the public media winners at the ceremony in Los Angeles Saturday.
The award for outstanding special class program went to Sweeney Todd.
America by the Numbers with Maria Hinojosa won an Imagen Award.
Big winners included Georgia Public Broadcasting, Maryland Public Television and WFYI in Indianapolis.
WLIW’s “Treasures of New York: The Landmarks Preservation Movement” won a New York State Broadcasters Association award for best documentary.
CPB honored David Gilkey and Ofeibea Quist-Arcton at the Public Media Development and Marketing Conference.
David Gilkey and Ofeibea Quist-Arcton were part of the NPR team that covered the Ebola crisis earlier this year.
Hawaii Public Radio’s coverage of a lava flow won two awards in the Radio Television Digital News Association competition.
Rose joins past winners including Tom Brokaw and Diane Sawyer.
Mandela: An Audio History beat Oprah Winfrey, Amy Poehler, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Neil Gaiman at the Audies.
Idaho Public Television’s Outdoor Idaho won six awards from the Idaho Press Club.
Serial is the first podcast to be recognized with a Peabody.
The Founders Award recognizes the creator of an outstanding and popular program.
APTS awarded the David J. Brugger Lay Leadership Award to Hilma Prather of Kentucky Feb. 22 at its Public Media Summit in Washington, D.C.
WCNY’s Daino will be honored for his contributions to the sales and marketing profession and his community.
Public radio stations KCLU in Thousand Oaks and Southern California Public Radio in Pasadena took home both awards for best use of sound in addition to several accolades for reporting.
Last Days in Vietnam scored PBS’s American Experience its ninth Academy Award nomination. Rory Kennedy produced and directed the film for AmEx, a documentary series that has run since 1995. CPB provided support for the film. Last Days in Vietnam was nominated in the Best Documentary category, marking Kennedy’s first nomination. “When we conceived of this film three years ago, we knew it was a powerful story of individual acts of courage set against a background of chaos,” said American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels on the show’s blog.
The $5,000 prize is awarded to a young public radio journalist each year.
Recipients include Henry Louis Gates’s six-part history The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.