2022 Regional Murrow Awards Region 1 Winners Announced

Region 1

The regional RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS ASSOCIATION's EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS for excellence in electronic journalism are being announced one region per day this year, and TODAY (5/10) is Region 1's turn in the spotlight.

Winners in Region 1's Radio categories are:

Large Market

Breaking News Coverage: PACIFIC PUBLIC MEDIA Jazz KNKX/TACOMA-SEATTLE, Three TACOMA Officers Charged with Felonies in the Killing of MANUEL ELLIS
Continuing Coverage: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON News-Talk KUOW/SEATTLE, Tracing Covid Outbreaks and Vaccine Hesitation in WASHINGTON
Digital: KUOW
Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: KNKX, ABERDEEN Councilwoman Believed to be First Transgender Elected Official in WASHINGTON
Excellence in Sound: KUOW, Birthing and Parenting in the Pandemic
Excellence in Writing: BONNEVILLE News-Talk KIRO-F/SEATTLE, DAVE ROSS, Billionaires; Pee In Bottles; and The Last Normal Generation
Feature Reporting: KUOW, How Deadly Fentanyl Pills are Tearing through the SEATTLE Area
Hard News: KUOW, Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory Politics Grip SEQUIM
Investigative Reporting: NORTHWEST NEWS NETWORK, #cattlegate saga
News Documentary: KUOW, Voices of Pandemic
News Series: KNKX, The MERKLE HOTEL
Newscast: KIRO, SEATTLE’S MORNING NEWS: JANUARY 7th, 2021
Overall Excellence: KUOW
Podcast: OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING, RELATIVE FICTION
Sports Reporting: KUOW, This KRAKEN Fan Loves Hockey but Laments the Misogyny in the Stands

Small Market

Continuing Coverage: BETHEL BROADCASTING, INC. Variety KYUK-A/BETHEL, AK, Nearly Half Of BETHEL Police Are Unvaccinated And Live Out Of Town. They Could Lose Their Jobs.
Digital: EUGENE PEACEWORKS low power Variety KEPW-LP/EUGENE, OR with CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS and EVERYONE VILLAGE, EUGENE Community Newswire
Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Variety KLCC/EUGENE, OR, BRIAN BULL’s coverage of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Girls/People)
Excellence in Sound: KLCC, Sounds from the Ballgame: EMERALDS Return to PK PARK
Excellence in Writing: KLCC, BRIAN BULL
Feature Reporting: BOISE STATE PUBLIC RADIO/BOISE, ID, A BOISE Nurse Shares her Frontline Experience through Poetry
Hard News: JEFFERSON PUBLIC RADIO/ASHLAND, OR, Homes Lose Running Water In KLAMATH BASIN As They Compete With Farmers, Ranchers
Investigative Reporting: BOISE STATE PUBLIC RADIO, "I Don’t Tell People That I Worked There": Employees Describe Problems At IDAHO COVID Care Center
News Series: ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA with ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS and INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY, ALASKA Native Claims Settlement Act 50th Anniversary Series
Newscast: KLCC, LOVE CROSS
Overall Excellence: KLCC
Podcast: MONTANA PUBLIC RADIO with UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, FIRELINE

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