2002 – TV/Radio

RADIO STATIONS, NETWORKS & SYNDICATORS
Best Newscast
First Place:
 
CBS, NY Christopher Glenn & Steve Baltin “CBS World News Round-Up”
Second Place: ABC, NY Staff “September 11 Attacks”
Third Place: WBAL, Baltimore John Patti “Victory!”
Public Service
First Place:
  
Lichtenstein Creative Media, NY Bill Lichtenstein, June Peoples, Marit Haahr & Greg Seaton “The Infinite Mind: Beyond the Baby Blues”
Second Place: WRNI, Providence Staff “Insuring Our Health”
Third Place: WCPN, Cleveland Renita Jablonski “They Call Me Momma”
Coverage of a Spot News Event
First Place :
CBS, NY Staff “Execution of Timothy McVeigh”
Second Place: ABC, NY Bob Woodruff “Aboard the USS Enterprise”
Third Place: WBAL, Baltimore Jack Shaum, Leonard Roberts, John Patti & Bill Vanko “Centreville Police Shooting”
Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event
First Place : ABC, NY Chris Berry “Timothy McVeigh Execution”
 
Second Place: WBAL, Baltimore Mark Miller & Jack Shaum “C-S-X Train Tunnel Fire”
Third Place: MetroNews Radio Network, Charleston, WV Chris Slemp “West Virginia Floods”
Continuing Coverage – Attack on America and Their Aftermath:
First Place BEST OF SHOW IN RADIO DIVISION: ABC, NY Chris Berry “Attack on America”
  
Second Place: Lichtenstein Creative Media, NY Bill Lichtenstein, June Peoples, Emily Fisher, Marit Haahr, Derorah Klahr  & Greg Seaton “The Infinite Mind: Mental Health in Troubled Times”
Third Place: CBS, NY Staff “America Fights Back”
Documentary or Series of Reports
First Place:
WCPN ideastream, Cleveland Karen Schaefer “John Copeland: A Hero of Harper’s Ferry”
Second Place: KUNM, Vision Trust, Inc.,  Albuquerque Howard Stephens, Jim Cochran & Virginia Stephens “Running on Empty: America’s Energy Crisis”
Third Place: Radio Diaries, Inc., NY Joe Richman “Prison Diaries”
Feature or Human Interest Story
First Place:
WKSU, Kent, OH Vincent Duffy “Cadaver Funeral”
Second Place: WCPN ideastream, Cleveland April Baer “Catching Up with Camelot”
Third Place: WFAE, Charlotte Amy Quinton “Stage IV Cancer”
TELEVISION STATIONS 
Best Newscast
First Place: KIRO, Seattle Staff “Boeing Moves”
Second Place: KFDM, Beaumont, TX Scott J. Lawrence “Tropical Storm Allison”
Third Place: WFAA, Dallas Robert Cartwright & John Rios “Fighter Victor, Olympic Defeat”
Spot News Event
First Place: KGTV, San Diego Staff “Santana School Shooting”
 
Second Place: KIRO, Seattle Staff “The Day That Shook the Sound”
Third Place: WCVB, Needham, MA “Plane Crash Survivors”
Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event
First Place:
WCVB, Needham, MA “Attack on America: The Boston Investigation”
Second Place: KPRC, Houston Staff “Tropical Storm Allison”
Third Place: WBAL, Baltimore Staff “CSX Train Derailment”
Continuing Coverage – Attack on America and Their Aftermath
First Place:
WFXT, Boston, MA James Goff & Kerri-Lee Halkett “First Week with FEMA”
Second Place: WTAE, Pittsburgh Bob Longo “Crash of Flight 93”
Third Place: WFAA, Dallas David Duitch “America Under Attack”
Feature or Human Interest Story
First Place BEST OF SHOW IN TELEVISION DIVISION:
    
WCCO, Minneapolis Thomas Aviles “The Friday Squad”
Second Place: WCVB, Needham, MA Rhonda Mann & Donnat Mitchell “Dealing with Death”
Third Place: KSTP, St. Paul Bob McNaney & Russ Brown “Federal Air Marshals”
Public Service
First Place:
   
KGTV, San Diego Lee Swanson & Jody Hammond “Preventing the Pain: Real Solutions to Stop Youth Violence”
Second Place: KMGH, Denver Jennifer Vogelsberg “Call 7 for Help”
Third Place: WFLD, Chicago Mark Saxenmeyer & Staff “Who’s Guarding the Gate?”
Documentary or Series of Reports
First Place:
WFAA, Dallas Staff “Project Texas: Hidden Dangers/High Risk”
Second Place: KSAT, San Antonio Leslie Mouton “Leslie’s Story”
Third Place: WCPO, Cincinnati Laure Quinlivan “Visions of Vine Street”
Investigative Reporting
First Place:
KTRK, Houston Wayne Dolcefino “Bad Apples”
Second Place: WCVB, Needham, MA David Boeri “On the Trail of the FBI: Year Two”
Third Place: WJW, Cleveland Bill Sheil, Tom Merriman & Greg Easterly “The Imam Investigation”
Sports Reporting
First Place:
 
KSTP, St. Paul Joe Schmit, Eric Gislason, Kathy Gerhardt & Ed Karow “Death of Korey Stringer”
 
Second Place: News 12 Long Island Doug Geed & Michael DelGiudice “Long Island Ducks/Touchdown…Dragons!”
Third Place: WBFF, Timonium, MD Steven Davis “Courage House”
TELEVISION AND CABLE NETWORKS, AND SYNDICATORS 
Coverage of a Major News Event
First Place: MSNBC, Secaucus, NJ Staff “The McVeigh Execution”
Second Place: Dateline NBC Tom Keenan “In the Line of Duty”
Third Place: ABC News – PrimeTime Staff “Gary Condit Interview”
Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event
First Place: Inside Edition Staff “Attack on America”
 
Second Place: Dateline NBC Colleen Halpin Rubino “The Plane Truth”
Third Place: Dateline NBC Staff “The Roots of Rage”
Continuing Coverage – Attack on America & Their Aftermath
First Place: CNN CNN Investigation Team “Attack on America”
Second Place: NBC Nightly News Staff “Attack on America”
Third Place: CNN Aaron Brown “Aaron Brown Continuing Coverage of 9/11 Attacks”
Feature or Human Interest Story
First Place:
ABC Brian Ross & Jill Rackmill “From the Tower”
Second Place: Oregon Public Broadcasting Dora Militaru “The Ripple Effect”
Third Place: Dateline NBC Colleen Halpin Rubino & Jane Pauley “A Hero Remembered”
Documentary or Series of Reports
First Place:
 
Dateline NBC Rebecca Haggerty & Lisa Britton Parker “The Lost Boys”
Second Place: Dateline NBC / MSNBC Fred Rothenberg & Karen Stolman “The Crash of Flight 232”
Third Place: Dateline NBC Lynn Boswell & Jane Stone “Deadly Tower”
Investigative Reporting
First Place:
 
Dateline NBC Lai Ling Jew & John Larson “The ‘X’ Files”
Second Place: ABC Brian Ross & Rhonda Schwartz “Judicial Junkets”
Third Place: CNN Presents Vivian Schiller & Bill Smee “Gridlock”
News Magazine Program
First Place:
 
ABC Catherine Upin & Dr. Nancy Synderman “Jennifer’s Story”
Second Place: Dateline NBC Steven Cheng & Stone Phillips “Collision at Sea”
Third Place: ABC News 20/20 Barbara Walters “President Putin”
Sports Reporting
First Place:
NBC News Today Show Bob Dotson “Legless Wrestler”
Second Place: NJN Public Television Janice Selinger and George Veras “Tight on the Spiral”
Third Place: Dateline NBC Esther Zucker & Dennis Murphy “The Odyssey”