The 2013 winners of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism have been announced by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The awards recognize distinguished work produced during the 2011-12 election cycle.
Here are the winners:
LOCAL BROADCAST STATION
KARE TV, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
WBNS 10TV, Columbus, OH
LOCAL BROADCAST STATION – INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT
Marshall Zelinger, KMGH, Denver, CO
Tom McKee, WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, OH
LOCAL CABLE STATION
Northwest Cable News (NWCN), Seattle, WA
NewsChannel8/Politico/WJLA, Arlington, VA
LOCAL PUBLIC STATION
TVW, Olympia, WA
LOCAL STATION GROUP
Hearst Television
Belo Corp.
NATIONAL INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT
Jonathan Karl, ABC News
Martha Raddatz, ABC News
NATIONAL NETWORK PROGRAMMING
BET
Univision
CRONKITE/JACKSON PRIZE
The organization notes: “This competition introduced a new category: the Cronkite/Jackson Prize for Fact Checking Political Messages, named for the founding director of FactCheck.org, Brooks Jackson, and selected by a special jury convened by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania, home of FactCheck.org.”
Local station winner: KUSA, Denver, CO
National winner: CNN
Click here to see the full press release with details about the winners.
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