WESA/Pittsburgh, 'Allegheny Front' Lead Audio Winners Of Press Club Of Western Pennsylvania's 2020 Golden Quill Awards

Awards

The PRESS CLUB OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA has announced the winners of its 2020 GOLDEN QUILL AWARDS, and the audio categories were dominated by ESSENTIAL PUBLIC MEDIA News-Talk WESA/PITTSBURGH and the ALLEGHENY FRONT environmental show airing on WESA.

WESA won in the Excellence in Audio Journalism categories for Spot/Breaking News (“Students Walk Out of Class, Demand Justice for ANTWON ROSE,” SARAH SCHNEIDER AND VIRGINIA ALVINO YOUNG); News Feature (“As Political Tides Shift, Chances at Commutation Rise for PENNSYLVANIA Lifers,” AN-LI HERRING); Traditional Feature (“Being ‘Stronger Than Hate’ Means Addressing the Trauma That Can Lead to Violence,” LIZ REID); Profile (“DAMON YOUNG’s Memoir Tackles ‘Living While Black’ in PITTSBURGH,”  BILL O'DRISCOLL); Public Affairs/Politics/Government (“PITTSBURGH Wants to Hire More Black Officers, Some Say It Has to Change From Within,” ARIEL WORTHY); Arts/Entertainment (“Self-Taught PITTSBURGH Artist Gets First Solo Exhibit at Age 89,”  BILL O’DRISCOLL); and the Best in Show ED KING Memorial Award (“What’s at Stake When There’s a Language Barrier Between Families and Schools?” SARAH SCHNEIDER AND VIRGINIA ALVINO YOUNG).

ALLEGHENY FRONT won in four Excellence in Audio Journalism categories, Business/Technology/Consumer (“How Much Plastic Waste Is Ending up in Rivers? This PENN STATE Researcher Wants to Know,” JULIE GRANT); Medical/Health (“Popular Backyard Fires Aren’t Fun for Everyone. Wood Smoke Is Bad for Your Health,” KARA HOLSOPPLE),Science/Environment (“Wild PENNSYLVANIA” Series, Staff ); and, shared with STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA, Enterprise/Investigative (“Following PENNSYLVANIA Shale Gas to SCOTLAND” Series, REID FRAZIER).

Other audio winners included VERY LOCAL PITTSBURGH in the History/Culture category ("THE SLAW: Civil War PITTSBURGH"); THE BROADCAST PODCAST's KIM LYONS, NATALIE BENCIVENGA, and MIKE SORG in the Lifestyle category ("Amplifying Women’s Voices in PITSBURGH”); and the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE's FIELD STUDY podcast with MATT MORET and STEPHEN J. NESBITT (“It’s Not Just a Bad Dream”).

President's Awards for lifetime achievement went to PBS affiliate WQED-TV producer/host and KDKA-A host CHRIS MOORE and author/editor MAXWELL KING, while Service to Journalism Awards went to ENTERCOM News-Talk KDKA-A/PITTSBURGH for its 100th anniversaey and the NEWSPAPER GUILD OF PITTSBURGH and its President MICHAEL A. FUOCO.

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