2011 – TV/Radio

RADIO STATION AWARDS
Newscast, All Markets
First Place: “Nov. 17, 2010 7 a.m. News”
Scott Wykoff, John Patti and Dave Durian
WBAL-AM, Baltimore, MD
Second Place: “February 11, 2010, 2 p.m.”
WTOP News Staff
WTOP News, Washington, D.C.
Third Place: “KCBS 6 a.m. News”
Stan Bunger and Susan L. Taylor
KCBS Radio, San Francisco, CA
Breaking News or Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event
First Place: “Johns Hopkins Shooting”
Scott Wykoff, John Patti and Robert Lang
WBAL-AM, Baltimore, MD
Second Place: “Continuing Coverage of Ex-Illinois Governor Blagojevich”
Robert Wildeboer
WBEZ, Chicago IL
Third Place: “Fear and Death at the Discovery Building”
WTOP News Staff
WTOP News, Washington, D.C.
Feature or Human Interest Story, All Markets
First Place: “Cookies for a Cause”
Scott Wykoff
WBAL-AM, Baltimore, MD
Second Place: “After 19 Years, Released from Prison Under the Rockefeller Drug-Law Reforms”
Maria Scarvalone
Maria Scarvalone Productions for WNYC, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Third Place: “Physicians on Pharma’s Payroll: Educators or Marketers?”
Alisa Chang
WNYC Radio, New York, N.Y.
Documentary or Public Affairs
First Place: “Home with the Armadillo: The Armadillo Oral History Project”
David Brown, Ann Leifeste and Nick Marcotte
Texas Music Matters/KUT 90.5
Second Place: “Mean Kids”
Vivian Goodman
WKSU-FM, Kent, OH
Third Place: “Dignity Denied”
J.J. Green
WTOP News, Washington, D.C.
News Series
First Place: “Toxic Loans”
Mhari Saito
90.3 WCPN ideastream, Cleveland, OH
Second Place: “’Confidential’ Records Can Haunt Kids Later”
Linda Paul, Cate Cahan and Ken Davis
WBEZ-FM, Chicago Public Media, Chicago, IL
Third Place: “The Red Bulls: Beyond Deployment”
Jess Mador, Tom Robertson and Mark Zdechlik
Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, MN
BROADCAST RADIO NETWORKS & SYNDICATORS
Newscast, All Markets
First Place: CBS Radio News staff
CBS Radio News, New York, N.Y.
Second Place: no award given
Third Place: no award given
Breaking News or Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event
First Place: “May 6th Stock Plunge”
Marketwatch Radio Network staff
Marketwatch Radio Network, Washington, D.C.
Second Place: “Earthquake in Haiti”
CBS Radio News staff
CBS Radio News, New York, N.Y.
Third Place: “Disaster in the Gulf”
CBS Radio News staff
CBS Radio News, New York, N.Y.
Feature or Human Interest Story, All Markets
First Place: “Low-Wage in America”
Pamela Fessler and Steve Drummond
NPR, Washington, D.C.
Second Place: “Painting from the Heart”
Steve Hartman
CBS Radio News, New York, N.Y.
Third Place: “New Economies of Hollywood”
Carole Zimmer, Mark Mills and Kevin Hannigan
WBBR Bloomberg Radio, New York, N.Y.
Documentary or Public Affairs
First Place:      “Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls”
Susan Stamberg, Cindy Carpien and Heidi Glenn
NPR, Washington, D.C.
Second Place: “The USS Kirk: Valor at the Vietnam War’s End”
Joseph Shapiro, Sandra Bartlett and Susanne Reber
NPR, Washington, D.C.
Third Place: “Downtown Eastside: Life on the Margins”
Zack Baddorf and Shannon Young
Free Speech Radio News, Tampa,FL
News Series
First Place & GRAND AWARD in Radio: “Confidential Informants”
Carrie Kahn, Philip Bruce and Marisa Penaloza
NPR, Washington, D.C.
Second Place: “Rationing Health”
David Baron, Sheri Fink and Patrick Cox
PRI’s The World, Boston, MA
Third Place: “Is Fire Safety Putting Us At Risk?”
Rebecca Williams and Lester Graham
Michigan Radio, Ann Arbor, MI
BROADCAST OR CABLE TELEVISION STATIONS 
Newscast, All Markets
First Place: “Austin Plane Crash”
Adam Darsky, Glenn Jones and John Carreon
KTRK-TV, Houston, TX
Second Place: “Newscenter 5 at 11: Terror Sweep”
Chris Roach
WCVB-TV, Needham, MA
Third Place: “11 News Tonight”
WBAL-TV News Team
WBAL-TV, Baltimore, MD
Coverage of a Live Breaking News Event, All Markets
First Place: “MWRA Water Disaster”
Gerry Wardwell, Michael Cole and Chris Roach
WCVB-TV, Needham, MA
Second Place: “Church Funeral Shooting”
Sherrie Brown, KMBC9 News Staff
KMBC9, Kansas City, MO
Third Place: “West Seattle Shooting”
Todd Mokhtari and KIRO-TV staff
KIRO-TV, Seattle, WA
Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event, All Markets
First Place: “Katrina Without the Storm”
Bill Sheil, Mark DeMarino and Sonya Thompson
WJW-TV, Bay Village, OH
Second Place: “The Carmel Assault Case”
Sandra Chapman, WTHR Photojournalists
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN
Third Place: “Toyota Defense”
Joe Fryer, Monica Hanson and John Croman
KARE-TV, Minneapolis, MN
Feature, Sports or Human Interest Story, All Markets
First Place:
“The Year of Giving”
Jay Korff and Mark Bautista
WJLA-TV/tbd News, Arlington, VA
Second Place: “Commute Curiosity”
Scott Swan and Steve Rhodes
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN
Third Place: “Loren & LeRoy”
Boyd Huppert and Bill Middeke
KARE-TV, Minneapolis, MN
Public Service, All Markets
First Place: “Health Specials”
Kay Colby, Gretchen Cuda and Katie Baker
WVIZ/PBS ideastream, Cleveland, OH
Second Place: “Drowning in Neglect”
Jeremy Rogalski, Keith Tomshe and David Raziq
KHOU-TV, Houston, TX
Third Place: “Suit Proof Physicians”
Hagit Limor and Phil Drechsler
WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, OH
Documentary or Series of Reports on the Same Subject, All Markets
First Place: “Vietnam Revisited”
Thuy Vu, Vince Garrido and Greg Marasso
CBS5, San Francisco, CA
Second Place: “Deaths at the State Hospital”
John Ferrugia, Arthur Kane, Tom Burke, Jason Foster and Jeff Harris
KMGH-TV, Denver, CO
Third Place: “Waste on the Water”
Susannah Frame, Kellie Cheadle and Steve Douglas
KING-TV, Seattle, WA
Investigative Reporting, All Markets
First Place: “Bamboozled: A Story of Liquor and Money”
Stuart Watson, John Gray and Rachel Clapp
WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C.
Second Place: “Their Crime, Your Dime”
Chris Ingalls, Kellie Cheadle and Steve Douglas
KING-TV, Seattle, WA
Third Place: “Out of the Office”
Fox 5 Investigates
WTTG-TV, Washington, D.C.
Business and Consumer Reporting
First Place: “Veteran Support Organization”
Jennifer Kraus and Bryan Staples
WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN
Second Place: “Dangerous Delays”
Mindy Basara
WBAL-TV, Baltimore, MD
Third Place: “Bowling for Dollars”
Byron Harris, Mark Smith and Billy Bryant
WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX
Health/Science Reporting
First Place: “Singulair”
Tisha Thompson, Lance Ing and Rick Yarborough
WTTG-TV, Washington, D.C.
Second Place: “Taylor’s Heart”
Gary Reaves, Chris Mathis and Robert Hall
WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX
Third Place: “Into the Vortex”
Jude Redfield and Jim Hall
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN
Environmental Reporting
First Place: “Big Coal’s Political Power”
Ben Hall and Iain Montgomery
WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN
Second Place: “Dumped in Indiana”
Bob Segall, Bill Ditton and Cyndee Hebert
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN
Third Place: “Fishy Business”
Tisha Thompson, Steve Jones and Nelson Jones
WTTG-TV, Washington, D.C.
BROADCAST TELEVISION NETWORKS, CABLE NETWORKS AND SYNDICATORS 
Best Newscast
First Place: “Earthquake in Haiti 1/14/10”
NBC Nightly News staff
NBC Nightly News, New York, N.Y.
Second Place: “Al Roker in Iceland and More”
Jim Bell and Today staff
NBC News Today show, New York, N.Y.
Third Place: “Earthquake in Haiti 1/13/10”
NBC Nightly News staff
NBC Nightly News, New York, N.Y.
Coverage of a Major News Event
First Place: “Pakistan Desperation”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Danielle Dellorto and Mark Phillips
CNN, Atlanta, GA
Second Place: “Iraq: The Long Way Out”
Richard Engel, Madeleine Haeringer and ML Flynn
NBC Nightly News, New York, N.Y.
Third Place: “Chilean Mine Rescue”
Natalie Morales, Kerry  Sanders and Mike Taibbi
NBC Nightly News, New York, N.Y.
Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event
First Place: “Afghanistan: From the Front Lines to the Home Front”
Richard Engel and Bredun Edwards
NBC Nightly News, New York, N.Y.
Second Place: “The War Next Door”
Mark Potter and Richard Engel
NBC Nightly News, New York, N.Y.
Third Place: “Coverage of the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill”
CNN Staff
CNN, Atlanta, GA
Feature, Sports or Human Interest Story
First Place: “Picking Up Butch”
Chris Connelly, Ben Houser, and Phil Iglesias
ESPN, Bristol, CT
Second Place: “Haiti: Baby Jenny”
Elizabeth Cohen, John Bonifield and Ferre Dollar
CNN, Atlanta, GA
Third Place: “Pops Dream”
Bob Dotson, Jim Thompson and Mark Evans
NBC News Today Show, New York, N.Y.
Documentary or Series of Reports on the Same Subject
First Place: “Taliban”
Paul Refsdal, Anderson Cooper, Jennifer Hyde and Ken Shiffman
CNN, Atlanta, GA
Second Place: “Remington Under Fire”
Scott Cohn, Jeff Pohlman and Emily Bodenburg
CNBC, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Third Place: “America Now: City of Heartbreak and Hope”
Chris Hansen, Richard Greenberg and Maite Amorebieta
Dateline NBC, New York, N.Y.
Investigative Reporting
First Place: “Air Duct Cleaning Investigation”
Lisa Guererro, Larry Posner, Joe Enoch, Filip Kapsa, Mary Sue Connolly, Bob Read and Charles Lachman
Inside Edition, New York, N.Y.
Second Place: “The Deepwater Disaster”
Lisa Myers, Rich Gardella and Amna Nawaz
NBC News, New York, N.Y.
Third Place: “Black or White: Kids on Race”
Anderson Cooper, Soledad O’Brien and David Doss
CNN Anderson Cooper 360, Atlanta, GA
News Magazine Program
First Place: “The Desperate Hours”
Keith Morrison, Carol Gable and Cristina Boado
Dateline NBC, New York, N.Y.
Second Place: “Dads for Our Daughters”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Roni Selig, Melissa Dunst Lipman and Jen Hyde
CNN, Atlanta, GA
Third Place: “America Now: Children of the Harvest”
David Corvo, Rayner Ramirez and Dennis Murphy
Dateline NBC, New York, N.Y.
Business and Consumer Reporting
First Place: “Almighty Debt”
Geraldine Moriba, Michelle Rozsa and Cameo George
CNN, Atlanta, GA
Second Place: “Investing in America: A CNBC Town Hall Event with President Obama”
Susan Krakower, Mary Duffy and John Harwood
CNBC, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Third Place: “Bankers Life and Casualty Investigation”
Matt Meagher, Cindy Galli Charlie McLravy, Filip Kapsa, Bob Read and Charles Lachman
Inside Edition, New York, N.Y
Health/Science Reporting
First Place: “Disease Detectives”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Charlie Moore
Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, Atlanta, GA
Second Place: “Hard Hits: Concussion Series”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Stephanie Smith and Alfred DiSanti
CNN, Atlanta, GA
Third Place: “Haiti E.R.”
Robert Bazell, Nancy Snyderman and Mark Potter
NBC Nightly News, New York, N.Y.
Environmental Reporting
First Place: “Toxic Childhood: Backpack Study”
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Stephanie Smith and Alfred DiSanti
CNN, Atlanta, GA
Second Place: “Amazing Animals: Smarter Than You Think”
Anderson Cooper, Randi Kaye and Charlie Moore
Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, Atlanta, GA
Third Place: “Rescued: Saving the Gulf”
Mike Mocklar, Rob Marciano and MaryLynn Ryan
CNN, Atlanta, GA