| RADIO STATIONS, NETWORKS & SYNDICATORS | |||||||||
| Best Newscast | |||||||||
First Place: |
KCBS Radio, San Francisco News Team “KCBS AM News” |
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| Second Place: | ABC News, New York Chris Berry “7 a.m. Newscast” |
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| Third Place: | KNX Newsradio, Los Angeles Dave Zorn, Rory Eriksen, Kathleen Mendoza & Ronnie Bradford “KNX News at 4:30 p.m.” |
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| Public Service | |||||||||
First Place: |
Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland Colin Fogarty & Morgan Holm “Coming to Terms with Dying” |
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| Second Place: | KNX Radio, Los Angeles David P. Ysais “Getting Kids to Read” |
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| Third Place: | WCPN, Cleveland Dee Perry “Around Noon” |
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| Investigative Reporting | |||||||||
| BEST OF SHOW IN RADIO DIVISION: First Place:   |
KCBS Radio, San Francisco Mike Sugarman “Working Poor” |
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| Second Place: | WBAL-AM, Baltimore Ron Smith & Rosearl Julian “The Jonathan Dempsey Beating” |
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| Third Place: | WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, Albany Mark Brodie “Asbestos in Mount Vernon, NY” |
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| Coverage of a Spot News Event | |||||||||
First Place :  |
ABC News, N.Y. Linda Albin “Violence in Israel” |
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| Second Place: KCBS Radio, San Francisco “Recycling Fire” |
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| Third Place: No award given | |||||||||
| Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event | |||||||||
First Place:   |
WBAL-AM, Baltimore “Palczysnki Takes a Neighborhood Hostage” John Patti, Bill Vanko, Anne Kramer, Rosearl Julian |
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| Second Place: | ABC News Radio Chris Berry “Elian Gonzalez Story” |
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| Third Place: | KNX Newsradio, Los Angeles Dave Zorn, Luis Torres & Steve Cusack “First Word: The Crash of Flight 261” |
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| Documentary or Series of Reports | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
KNX Newsradio, Los Angeles Gail Eichenthal “Strings Attached: Adolescents and Sex” |
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| Second Place: | KCBS Radio, San Francisco Mike Sugarman “Hired Hands” |
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| Third Place: | The Savvy Traveler Tom Verde “Tour of Cairo, Egypt” |
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| Feature or Human Interest Story | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
WBAL-AM, Baltimore John Patti “If These Balls Could Talk” |
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| Second Place: | Lichtenstein Creative Media Bill Lichtenstein, June Peoples & Sharon Lerner ” On A Different Note: Perfect Pitch and Williams Syndrome” |
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| Third Place: | WCPN-Cleveland Public Radio Karen Schaefer “Remembering the Underground Railroad” |
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| TELEVISION STATIONS | |||||||||
| Best Newscast | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
WFAA-TV, Dallas “USS Cole Attack” Annette Smith & Sara Garza |
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| Second Place: | WCVB-TV, Needham, MA “Wakefield Tragedy” |
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| Third Place: | WBAL-TV, Baltimore Rena Popp & Tim Tunison “5 p.m. News” |
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| Spot News Event | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
WEWS-TV, Cleveland Lynn Heider, Kathy McGee “Meltdown” |
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| Second Place: | KSTP-TV, St. Paul Bob McNaney & Russ Brown “Northwest Airlines: Mishandled Mail” |
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| Third Place: | WCVB-TV, Needham, MA “Wakefield Tragedy” |
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| Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event | |||||||||
| First Place : | |
WEWS-TV, Cleveland Lynn Heider “Hospital Crisis” |
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| Second Place: | KECI-TV, Missoula, MT “Montana Wildfires: Up in Flames” |
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| Third Place: | WCVB-TV, Needham, MA David Boeri “On the Trail of James Whitey Bulger and the FBI” |
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| Feature or Human Interest Story | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
KDFW-TV, Dallas John Hammarley “Ethel Hears Again” |
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| Second Place: | WFAA-TV, Dallas Douglas Burgess “The Humming Birds and the Bees” |
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| Third Place: | WFAA-TV, Dallas Janet St. James & Douglas Burgess “The Baby Factory” |
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| Public Service | |||||||||
| First Place: | Georgia Public Television, Atlanta Carol Fisk, Gerald Bryant & Leigh Green “Final Choices” |
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| Second Place: | WYFF-TV, Greenville, SC Michael Cogdill, John Hendon, Lori Webster & Tim Whims “Message from the Bottle” |
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| Third Place: | KGO-TV, San Francisco Michael Finney & Jennifer Vogelsberg “7 on your Side” |
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| Documentary or Series of Reports | |||||||||
| First Place : |   |
KCNC, Denver Stephanie Riggs & Bill Masure “Embracing a Dream” |
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| Second Place: | WTHR-TV & Calamari Productions, Indianapolis Kevin Finch, Karen Grau, Steve Starnes & John Whalen “In the Child’s Best Interest” |
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| Third Place: | Georgia Public Television, Atlanta Rojene Bailey, Phil Proctor, Carol Fisk, Scott Huffman & Hal Lamar”Hosea in His Own Words” |
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| Investigative Reporting | |||||||||
| First Place: |  |
KHOU-TV, Houston David Raziq, Anna Werner & Chris Henao “Treading on Danger?” |
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| Second Place: | WEWS, Cleveland Tom Merriman “Inside These Walls” |
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| Third Place: | WFAA-TV, Dallas Valeri Williams & Meredith Schucker “Lives at Risk” |
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| Sports Reporting | |||||||||
| First Place: | WFAA-TV, Dallas Dale Hansen, Tony Martinez & Arnold Payne “The Landry Legacy” |
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| Second Place: | WFAA-TV, Dallas Douglas Burgess “One More Chance to Play” |
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| Third Place: | WFAA-TV, Dallas Gary Reaves & Douglas Burgess “To Hell and Back” |
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| Graphics, Informational or Illustrative | |||||||||
| First Place: | WCVB-TV, Needham, MA Bryan Kelleher “Newscenter 5 Design” Sean Connor Christine Finn Anthony Lathrop David Lovecchio Marcelle Watkins |
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| Second Place: | KSWB-TV, San Diego Maryl Lavelle “KSWB Station ID’s” |
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| Third Place: | No Award Given | ||||||||
| TELEVISION AND CABLE NETWORKS, AND SYNDICATORS | |||||||||
| Best Newscast | |||||||||
First Place  |
ABC News Kathy O’Hearn & Elizabeth Vargas “World News Tonight: Elian Gonzalez” |
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| Second Place: | CNN Judy Woodruff & Bernard Shaw “CNN’s Inside Politics” |
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| Third Place: | NBC News/Discovery Channel Carol Williams “Discovery News” |
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| Coverage of a Major News Event | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
ABC News Nightline Ted Koppel “The Holy Land: A Nightline Town Meeting in Jerusalem” |
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| Second Place: | CNN Rob Howell, Dave Timko & Heather Whitley “Election 2000” |
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| Third Place: | Dateline NBC Steve Eckert “Danger on the Road: Ford Firestone and the Federal Government” |
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| Feature or Human Interest Story | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
Dateline NBC Izhar Harpaz “Family Ties” |
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| Second Place: | ABC News Prime Time Live Diane Sawyer & Robbie Gordon “Roots of Rage” |
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| Third Place: | CNN NewsStand Jan Smith “Military Pay” |
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| Documentary or Series of Reports | |||||||||
| First Place BEST OF SHOW IN TELEVISION DIVISION: | |
ABC News Nightline Ted Koppel “AIDS in Africa” |
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| Second Place: | CNN Productions Christiane Amanpour & Liza McGuirk “Revolutionary Journey” |
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| Third Place: | Dateline NBC Shachar Bar-on “Mark of Dishonor” |
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| Investigative Reporting | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
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ABC News 20/20 Harry Phillips & Connie Chung “Justice at Last?” |
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| Second Place: | Dateline NBC Mark Feldstein & Staff “Saving Richard” |
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| Third Place: | Dateline NBC Lynn Dale & John Larson “The Paper Chase” |
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| News Magazine Program | |||||||||
| First Place: | CNN CNNdotCom Staff “CNNdotCom” James Hattori Perri Peltz Shari Bell |
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| Second Place: | NBC News/Discovery Channel Carol Williams “Discovery News” |
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| Third Place: | Dateline NBC Benita Alexander-Noel “Road to Disaster” |
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| Sports Reporting | |||||||||
| First Place : |  |
CNN/Sports Illustrated Robert Abbott “Bobby Knight Investigative Report” |
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| Second Place: | NBC News/Discovery Channel Carol Williams “Discovery News: Maximum Performance” |
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| Third Place: | CNN Jeff Flock “How Far? How Fast? How High? |
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