Stations receive more National Murrow Awards than any other
station group and Overall Excellence for a third consecutive
year
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) today announced that its stations
received ten 2024 National Edward R. Murrow Awards for excellence
in broadcast journalism, more than any other station group. KARE
was recognized for Overall Excellence, Large Market Television,
marking a third consecutive year a TEGNA station has received this
honor. The Edward R. Murrow Awards are sponsored by the Radio
Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and honor outstanding
achievements in broadcast and digital journalism.
“Our dedication to serving and uplifting our communities
inspires our stations and journalists daily to create stories that
make a difference,” said Lynn Beall, EVP and COO of media
operations, TEGNA. “Congratulations to our stations and people for
this well-deserved recognition.”
The prestigious Murrow Awards “recognize local and national news
stories that uphold the RTDNA Code of Ethics, demonstrate technical
expertise and exemplify the importance and impact of journalism as
a service to the community.”
TEGNA stations’ 2024 National Edward R. Murrow Award recipients
are:
KARE (Minneapolis, Minnesota): Overall Excellence,
Large Market Television. This is the fourth National Edward R.
Murrow Award for Overall Excellence for KARE, which previously
received this honor in 1997, 2001 and 2004. The KARE news team has
a commitment to strong storytelling, memorable photojournalism,
community-focused reporting and investigations with impact. The
commitment to quality enterprise journalism extends across KARE’s
linear and digital platforms, with a focus on context and
depth.
KARE (Minneapolis, Minnesota): Excellence in Writing,
Large Market Television recognizing Boyd Huppert. This is
Huppert’s 26th career Edward R. Murrow Award. Boyd’s storytelling
style sets the standard for local journalism and his stories offer
hope by shining a light on the best of humanity. In his “Land of
10,000 Stories” franchise, Boyd sums up his mission saying, “by
bringing goodness into all our homes, I believe you inspire all of
us to be just a little kinder and better.”
KARE (Minneapolis, Minnesota): Excellence in Video,
Large Market Television for photojournalists Chad Nelson and
Mitchell Yehl for “Bitter Harvest.” Featured in Boyd Huppert’s
"Land of 10,000 Stories” franchise, the story is a poignant tale of
a Wisconsin farm family wrestling with loss. Farmer Brian Webster
died by suicide about a month before his family reached out to
Boyd. They wanted to share their story, to draw attention to an
often-overlooked issue – mental health struggles in rural
communities. Following guidelines for coverage of suicides
published by the World Health Organization, Poynter Institute and
others, the story was told with sensitivity, care, emotion and
memorable video.
KHOU (Houston, Texas): Continuing Coverage, Large
Market Television for “Coffee City Police.” The KHOU
investigative team of Jeremy Rogalski, Jennifer Cobb and John
Gibson exposed how a tiny Texas town became a magnet for troubled
cops. Coffee City had 50 officers for a population of 250, most
with dubious pasts and hired by a chief with his own legal
troubles. Two weeks after KHOU’s first story aired, the Coffee City
Police Department was shut down, and ultimately seven police
officers were indicted, including the chief himself. The ongoing
investigative series has been viewed more than seven million times
on the KHOU YouTube page.
KHOU (Houston, Texas): Excellence in Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion, Large Market Television for “Juneteenth 2023 The
Freedom to Learn.” A team of KHOU journalists, led by the station’s
main anchors Mia Gradney and Len Cannon explore Juneteenth through
the lens of education. The hour-long documentary details
opportunities denied to African Americans through violence and
intimidation, leading to the creation of Historically Black
Colleges and Universities. “Juneteenth 2023 The Freedom to Learn”
aims to educate viewers on diversity, racial injustice, and
inequality in education.
NEWS CENTER Maine (Portland and Bangor, Maine):
Breaking News, Small Market Television for “Lewiston Mass
Shooting.” A mass shooting with two crime scenes, 18 dead, 13 more
in the hospital, followed by a 48-hour manhunt for the killer, the
state of Maine was paralyzed with fear and on lockdown in their
homes. NEWS CENTER Maine was the calm in a terrifying storm for a
state during its darkest, most painful hours. The entire news team
delivered accurate, detailed information around the clock, in an
empathetic, sobering but unsensational manner, holding authorities
accountable while figuratively holding the hands of their neighbors
watching on TV and online.
WBNS (Columbus, Ohio): Breaking News, Large Market
Television for “Charter Bus Crash.” A charter bus filled with
high school students and chaperones was involved in a tragic
accident on a local highway. Three students on the bus and three
adults were killed in the five-vehicle accident. Throughout the
day, WBNS’s continuous coverage on all platforms evolved as
witnesses explained what happened. WBNS told stories of first
responders who heroically rushed to the scene and pulled students
from the charter bus which was on fire, asked tough questions to
hold the powerful accountable, and produced profiles to honor the
victims to help the community heal from this tragic event.
KSDK (St. Louis, Missouri): Sports Reporting, Large
Market Television for reporter/anchor Mike Bush and
photojournalist Tom Stasiak on their story “Cody’s Wish,” which
highlights the deep bond between Cody, a teenage boy with
Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and a horse with the name of Cody’s Wish.
The relationship symbolizes the pair's victory not just on the
horse track but a triumph of spirit.
WMAZ (Macon, Georgia): Excellence in Innovation, Small
Market Television for “More than a Number: Giving a Face to the
Victim and a Voice to the Family.” Inspired by personal tragedy,
WMAZ’s digital content manager Justin Baxley pioneered a new
approach to covering violent crime. His father was murdered in
Macon, but Justin turned his ongoing pain into purpose through
conceptualizing “More than a Number." The ongoing project aims to
ease the pressure on reporters to approach grieving families and
prioritizes compassion over deadlines. It offers a digital resource
guide to victims’ families to share their stories when they are
willing and ready. Since the August 2023 launch, dozens of families
trusted WMAZ journalists to share their loved one’s life through
storytelling that goes beyond the headlines, and the project
continues to grow. Newsrooms across several TEGNA stations adopted
“More than a Number” to give a face to crime victims and a voice to
their families in communities across the country.
WTIC (Hartford, Connecticut): Excellence in
Innovation, Large Market Television for Innovation in Weather
Storytelling. Meteorologists Rachel Frank, Ryan Breton, and Rachel
Piscitelli partnered with the TEGNA Design Tank to use augmented
reality graphics to explain how a changing climate would impact the
upcoming winter and prepare their community ahead of a severe
weather season. FOX61 is committed to finding an innovative and
fresh approach to sharing the science beyond the forecast.
For 2024, TEGNA stations were also honored with 73 Regional
Edward R. Murrow Awards. Stations received six Overall Excellence,
seven Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and five Innovation awards,
more honors in these categories than any other local broadcast
station group.
About TEGNA
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) is an innovative media company that
serves the greater good of our communities. Across platforms, TEGNA
tells empowering stories, conducts impactful investigations and
delivers innovative marketing solutions. With 64 television
stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA is the largest owner of top 4
network affiliates in the top 25 markets among independent station
groups, reaching approximately 39 percent of all television
households nationwide. TEGNA also owns leading multicast networks
True Crime Network and Quest. TEGNA offers innovative solutions to
help businesses reach consumers across television, digital and
over-the-top (OTT) platforms, including Premion, TEGNA’s OTT
advertising service. For more information, visit www.TEGNA.com.
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