The Radio Television Digital News Association has announced the 2012 National Edward R. Murrow Award winners. The awards honor excellence in electronic journalism.
For the fourth consecutive year, NBC News won the Edward R. Murrow award for Overall Excellence in the network television grouping. NBC News also won National Murrows for Video Newscast and Writing.
In the same television grouping, ABC News earned three Murrow Awards in 2012 – for Video Breaking News Coverage, Video Continuing Coverage and Video Reporting: Hard News.
CBS News took the awards for Video Feature Reporting and Video Investigative Reporting in the network television grouping.
In all, 67 news organizations are being honored with 99 awards, listed below.
Television Network/Syndication Service
Overall Excellence
NBC News
Video Breaking News Coverage
ABC News
Target bin Laden: The Death of Public Enemy #1
Video Continuing Coverage
ABC News
Gabrielle Giffords
Video Feature Reporting
CBS News
60 Minutes: The Gardens of the Queen
Video Reporting: Hard News
ABC News
World News with Diane Sawyer, A Cry For Help: Famine in Somalia
Video Investigative Reporting
CBS News
The CBS Evening News: Gunwalker
Video News Documentary
CNBC
Billions Behind Bars: Inside America’s Prison Industry
Video News Series
CNN
Homs: City Under Siege
Video Newscast
NBC News
Blown Away: Southern Tornadoes
Video Sports Reporting
ESPN
E:60 Angel in the Outfield
Use of Video
CNN
Joplin Gawker
Website
CNBC
CNBC.com
Writing
NBC News
American Story with Bob Dotson
Radio Network/Syndication Service
Overall Excellence
CBS Radio News
Audio Breaking News Coverage
ABC News Radio
Osama Bin Laden Killed
Audio Continuing Coverage
ABC News Radio
Arab Spring
Audio Feature Reporting
WNYC-AM/FM/Studio 360
Secrets of a Blonde Bombshell
Audio Reporting: Hard News
BBC World Service
The Death of Mohammed Bouazizi
Audio News Documentary
BBC World Service
Cholera in Haiti
Audio Investigative Reporting
Marketplace/American Public Media
The Chinese Student Syndrome
Audio News Series
CBS Radio News
9/11 — Ten Years Later
Audio Newscast
AP Radio News
Bin Laden is Dead
Audio Sports Reporting
ESPN
The Sporting Life/E:60 "Hero"
Use of Sound
WNYC-AM/FM/Studio 360
Adventures in 3D Sound
Website
National Public Radio
NPR.org
Writing
WNYC-AM/FM/Radio Rookies
Daughter of a Survivor
Online News Operation – National
Overall Excellence
The Associated Press
Video Breaking News Coverage
The Washington Post
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Tucson
Video Continuing Coverage
The New York Times
Surviving Haiti’s Earthquake: Children
Video Feature Reporting
Yahoo!
Field of Inspiration
Video Investigative Reporting
The Associated Press
NYPD Intelligence
Video News Series
GlobalPost
On Location
Use of Video
The Washington Post
Under Suspicion: Voices about Muslims in America
Video Sports Reporting
The Associated Press
Kim Rhode Profile
Website
The Washington Post
WashingtonPost.com
Writing
The Daily Caller
The Horse Soldiers of 9-11
Online News Operation – Local
Video Feature Reporting
The Dallas Morning News – Dallas
An Unending Battle: A Military Family’s Struggle with Traumatic Brain Injury
Video Continuing Coverage
The Boston Globe – Boston
Whitey Bulger Coverage
Video Investigative Reporting
The Boston Globe – Boston
The Boston Globe – Spotlight: Unreasonable Doubt
Audio Investigative Reporting
The Lens New Orleans / GW Center for Independent Journalism – New Orleans
Kisa Holmes
Video Reporting: Hard News
The Boston Globe – Boston
Departure Point
Video News Documentary
Detroit Free Press – Detroit
Living With Murder
Video News Series
StarTribune – Minneapolis
Lost Warriors
Video Sports Reporting
The Boston Globe – Boston
Honoring NBA Great Bill Russell
Use of Video
The Boston Globe – Boston
Video Team Composite
Website
The Texas Tribune – Austin, Texas
The Texas Tribune – An Interactive Approach to Civic Engagement
Writing
The Boston Globe – Boston
Parents React to Boston School Assignments
Television: Large Market
Overall Excellence
WCVB-TV – Needham, Mass.
Video Breaking News Coverage
WTHR-TV – Indianapolis
State Fair Tragedy
Video Continuing Coverage
KING-TV – Seattle
Bully with a Badge
Video Feature Reporting
KUSA-TV – Denver
Adde’s Lesson
Video Reporting: Hard News
KARE-TV – Golden Valley, Minn.
Dramatic Rise in Homeless Teens
Video Investigative Reporting
WBAL-TV – Baltimore
Judging the Judges
Video News Documentary
KING-TV – Seattle
Climb of a Lifetime
Video News Series
KMOV-TV – St. Louis
Selling St. Louis
Video Newscast
KTVU-TV – Oakland, Calif.
The Ten O’Clock News
Video Sports Reporting
Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia – Philadelphia
Remembering Richie
Use of Video
WTHR-TV – Indianapolis
Steve Rhodes
Website
KMGH-TV – Denver
theDenverChannel.com
Writing
KARE-TV – Minneapolis
Boyd Huppert
Radio: Large Market
Overall Excellence
KCBS – San Francisco
Audio Breaking News Coverage
KMOX-AM – St. Louis
Good Friday Tornado Hits St. Louis
Audio Continuing Coverage
KUT-FM – Austin, Texas
Texas 2011 Ongoing Drought
Audio Feature Reporting
WCPN-FM – Cleveland
Frank’s Donation
Audio Reporting: Hard News
CFRA-AM – Ottawa, ON, Canada
A Night in the Cell Block
Audio Investigative Reporting
WBUR-FM – Boston
Anatomy of a Bad Confession
Audio News Documentary
WUSF-FM – Tampa, Fla.
Jumping Off the Skyway Bridge…and Surviving
Audio News Series
Mississippi Public Broadcasting – Jackson, Miss.
Smithville Destroyed by Tornado
Audio Newscast
WTOP-FM – Washington
Newscast 5-2-11 6pm
Use of Sound
WBUR-FM – Boston
New BSO Conductor Teaches Kids To Love Classical Music, One Wisecrack At A Time
Audio Sports Reporting
WTMJ-AM – Milwaukee
The First Pitch of the Rest of their Lives
Website
KIRO-AM – Seattle
mynorthwest.com
Writing
WFAE-FM – Charlotte, N.C.
Uncovering The Past: Mecklenburg’s Role In Sterilization
Television: Small Market
Overall Excellence
KCCI-TV – Des Moines, Iowa
Video Breaking News Coverage
WSHM-TV – Springfield, Mass.
Springfield Tornado
Video Continuing Coverage
WVUE-TV – New Orleans
Hiding Behind the Badge
Video Feature Reporting
WHO-TV – Des Moines, Iowa
Sky Rise
Video Reporting: Hard News
KRGV-TV – Weslaco, Texas
Police Threat
Video Investigative Reporting
WBBH-TV – Fort Myers, Fla.
EBT Card Investigation
Video News Documentary
KITV
-TV – Honolulu
Kokoro: Hearts Across the Pacific
Video News Series
WVUE-TV – New Orleans
Swiped
Video Newscast
KHNL/KGMB-TV – Honolulu
Hawaii News Now at 5pm
Video Sports Reporting
WWL-TV – New Orleans
Jay Rink’s Defensive Line
Use of Video
WATE-TV – Knoxville, Tenn.
Mission to Africa
Website
KTVB-TV – Boise, Idaho
KTVB.COM
Writing
KCCI-TV – Des Moines, Iowa
Hanson Compilation
Radio: Small Market
Overall Excellence
Alabama Public Radio – Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Audio Breaking News Coverage
WRVA-AM – Richmond, Va.
Shooting at Virginia Tech
Audio Continuing Coverage
KTTS-FM – Springfield, Mo.
Tornado in Joplin
Audio Feature Reporting
WBOI-FM – Fort Wayne, Ind.
Derby Brats
Audio Investigative Reporting
KUNC-FM – Greeley, Colo.
K12 Inc.: Public Online Schools, Private Profits
Audio Reporting: Hard News
WUFT-FM – Gainesville, Fla.
The Execution of Manuel Valle
Audio News Documentary
WSLU – Canton, N.Y.
The Road From 9/11
Audio News Series
WITF-FM – Harrisburg, Pa.
Facing Cancer Together
Audio Newscast
WTAQ – Green Bay, Wis.
WTAQ’s Morning News
Audio Sports Reporting
WITF-FM – Harrisburg, Pa.
Hope in Handball
Use of Sound
WMSI-WJDX-FM – Jackson, Miss.
The National Memorial
Website
WDEL-AM – Wilmington, Del.
WDEL.com
Writing
KSMU-FM – Springfield, Mo.
‘Angels of Mercy:’ Scenes of Heroism, Lessons Learned Emerge From Hospital Ravaged by Tornado
To watch or listen to winning entries, go to the RTDNA website by clicking here.
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