| Broadcast Division | ||||
| RADIO STATIONS | ||||
| Newscast | ||||
| First Place: |  |
KCBS, San Francisco, CA “Winter Storm” KCBS News Team |
||
| Second Place: | KNOW-FM, St. Paul, MN “All Things Considered Regional Broadcast 11/13/08” MPR News Team |
|||
| Third Place: | WBAL-AM, Baltimore, MD “The WBAL Morning News 11/5/08” Bill Vanko, Steve Fermier, Dave Durian |
|||
| Breaking News or Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event | ||||
| First Place: |  |
KCBS, San Francisco, CA “Campaign 2008” Doug Sovern |
||
| Second Place: | WKDZ/WHVO, Cadiz, KY “Roaring Springs Fire/Murders” Alan Watts, Tammy Hancock & D.J. Everett |
|||
| Third Place: | WBEZ – Chicago Public Radio, Chicago, IL “Alton Logan” John Conroy, Ben Calhoun, Cate Cahan & Tony Arnold |
|||
| Feature or Human Interest Story | ||||
| First Place: |
 |
KGO Radio, San Francisco, CA “The Milk-Moscone Murders: 30 Years Later” RJ Peruman |
||
| Second Place: | WBEZ – Chicago Public Radio, Chicago, IL “Addolfo Davis” Linda Paul, Cate Cahan |
|||
| Third Place: | WBBR Bloomberg Radio, New York, N.Y. “A Borrower and a Lender Be” Carole Zimmer |
|||
| Documentary or Public Affairs | ||||
| First Place: |  |
 |
 |
Texas Music Matters/KUT 90.5, Austin, TX “Amazing Grace: The Story of Willie Nelson” David Brown, Michael May |
| Second Place: | WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, Chicago, IL “The Brickyard” Greg Scott, Aurora Aguilar & Joe DeCeault |
|||
| Third Place: | WBAL-AM, Baltimore, MD “Our People, Our Problems, Our Solutions” John Patti, Anne Kramer |
|||
| News Series | ||||
| First Place: |  |
 |
WBAL-AM, Baltimore, MD “Supermax” Scott Wykoff |
|
| Second Place: | KCBS Radio, San Francisco, CA “Down, But Not Out” Doug Sovern |
|||
| Third Place: | WBBR Bloomberg Radio, New York, N.Y. “Tilting at Windmills: Alternative Energy in New York City” Carole Zimmer, Mark Mills, Nick Ciavatta |
|||
| BROADCAST RADIO NETWORKS & SYNDICATORS | ||||
| Newscast | ||||
| First Place: |  |
CBS Radio News “CBS World News Roundup – 11/5/08 Newscast” Nick Young, Paul Farry |
||
| Second Place: | ABC News Radio “Information Network Newscast – 5 p.m., 1/4/08” Staff Entry |
|||
| Third Place: | All Things Considered and NPR “China: The Earthquake in Chengdu” Staff Entry |
|||
| Breaking News or Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event | ||||
| First Place: |  |
CBS Radio News “Campaign 2008” |
||
| Second Place: | ABC News Radio “Road to the White House” |
|||
| Third Place: | No third place award given. | |||
| Feature or Human Interest Story | ||||
| First Place: |  |
CBS Radio News “Military Malpractice” Byron Pitts |
||
| Second Place: | NPR “Prison Overcrowding: San Quentin Becomes One Massive Cell” Laura Sullivan |
|||
| Third Place: | Weekend America (American Public Media) “The Godfather of Soul Saves Boston” Michael May |
|||
| Documentary or Public Affairs | ||||
| First Place: |  |
NPR “36 Years of Solitary: Murder, Death & Justice on Angola” Laura Sullivan |
||
| Second Place: | Radio Pennsylvania Network, Harrisburg, Pa. “Eerie Pennsylvania: The Cashtown Inn” Brad Christman |
|||
| Third Place: | KALW FM 91.7, San Francisco, CA “Prisons in Crisis: A State of Emergency in California” JoAnn Mar, Alyne Ellis |
|||
| News Series | ||||
| First Place: |  Hagerty |
NPR – All Things Considered “Muslim Polygamy in America” Barbara Bradley Hagerty & Cindy Johnston |
||
| Second Place: | CBS “Where They Stand” CBS Radio News Staff |
|||
| Third Place: | The Environment Report, Ann Arbor, MI “Nuclear Power Series” Lester Graham & Shawn Allee |
|||
| BROADCAST OR CABLE TELEVISION STATIONS | ||||
| Newscast | ||||
| First Place: |  |
KIRO-TV, Seattle, WA KIRO-7 Eyewitness News at 11 – 11/22/08 Newscast” Tonya Estes, Tairsa Swenson |
||
| Second Place: | WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, PA “Channel 4 Action News at 11 – 9/5/08 Newscast” Tim Wells, Maria Dravecky |
|||
| Third Place: | WCVB-TV, Boston, MA “NewsCenter 5 at 11 – 10/15/08 Newscast” Jenny Barron, Samantha Butkiewicus |
|||
| Coverage of a Live Breaking News Event | ||||
| First Place: | |
KIRO-TV, Seattle, WA “Downtown Seattle Shooting” Todd Mokhtari |
||
| Second Place: | WCVB-TV, Boston, MA “Lawrence Burns” Gail Huff, Rodney Grace, Shiba Russell |
|||
| Third Place: | WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh, PA “Triple Shooting” Shannon Perrine, T.J. Haught, Cary Toaso |
|||
| Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event | ||||
| First Place: |  |
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN “Amaya – Two Years After the Attack” Anne Marie Tiernon, Stephen Starnes |
||
| Second Place: | KHOU-TV, Houston, TX “Go Army or Go to Jail” Mark Greenblatt, David Raziq, Keith Tomshe |
|||
| Third Place: | WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN “Burning Injustice” Sandra Chapman, Steve Rhodes |
|||
| Feature, Sports or Human Interest Story | ||||
| First Place: |
|
 |
 |
WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH “Lima Company: A Portrait of Service” Lindsey Seavert, Jeff Ritter |
| Second Place: | KARE-TV, Minneapolis, MN “Leaving Kittson County” Boyd Huppert, Jonathan Malat & Tom Lindner |
|||
| Third Place: | WFLD-TV, Chicago, IL “Through The Lens of Loss” Mark Saxenmeyer, D. Johnson, Juan Ramirez |
|||
| Public Service | ||||
| First Place: |  Watson |
WCNC-TV, Charlotte, N.C. “United Way: Salary Shocker” Stuart Watson, John Gray, Allison Andrews |
||
| Second Place: | WEWS-TV, Cleveland, OH “Troubleshooter” Joe Pagonakis, Melissa Watson, Ted Kortan |
|||
| Third Place: | KHOU-TV, Houston, TX “A Dangerous Lesson” Jeremy Rogalski, Keith Tomshe, David Raziq |
|||
| Documentary or Series of Reports | ||||
| First Place: |  Cunningham |
KTVT-TV, Fort Worth, TX “D.A.R.T. Travel Spending Investigation” Bennett Cunningham, Aaron Wische, Josh Brown, Stuart Boslow & Manuel Villela |
||
| Second Place: | KARE-TV, Minneapolis, MN “Nick’s New Life” Joe Fryer, Brett Akagi, Gary Knox & John Drilling |
|||
| Third Place: | WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN “Eyewitness to China” Scott Swan, Steve Rhodes |
|||
| Investigative Reporting | ||||
| First Place: |  |
 |
 |
WTVT-TV, Tampa, FL “Small Town Justice” Doug Smith, Lisa Blegen, Craig Davisson |
| Second Place: | WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN “General Sessions Court” Phil Williams, Bryan Staples, Kevin Wisniewski, Ben Hall & Iain Montgomery |
|||
| Third Place: | WTTG-TV, Washington, DC “Security Breach” Tisha Thompson, Rick Yarborough, Nelson Jones |
|||
| Business and Consumer Reporting | ||||
| First Place: |  |
WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN “NewsChannel 5 Investigates: An Alarming Failure” Jennifer Kraus, Bryan Staples, Mike Rose, Kevin Wisniewski |
||
| Second Place: | KGTV, San Diego, CA “Car Seat Rental” Lauren Reynolds, Felicia Kit, Michael Gonzalez |
|||
| Third Place: | WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN “Tapping Your Cell Phone…” Bob Segall, Bill Ditton, Cyndee Hebert” |
|||
| Health/Science Reporting | ||||
| First Place: |  |
WJW, Cleveland, OH “Nine Minutes in October” Tom Merriman, Dave Hollis, Chuck Rigdon, Matt Rafferty & Sonya Thompson |
||
| Second Place: | KYW, Philadelphia, PA “False Hope” Jim Osman, Joan Sill & Andrea Korff |
|||
| Third Place: | WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN “Maxed Out” Sandra Chapman & Stephen Starnes |
|||
| Environmental Reporting | ||||
| First Place: |  Ditton, Segall, & Rhodes |
WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN “What’s Floating in the River” Bob Segall, Bill Ditton & Steve Rhodes |
||
| Second Place: | WTVF-TV, Nashville, TN “NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Mountain Top Mining” Bob Hall & Iain Montgomery |
|||
| Third Place: | KTRK-TV, Houston, TX “Green to Green” KTRK Green Team |
|||
| BROADCAST TELEVISION NETWORKS, CABLE NETWORKS AND SYNDICATORS | ||||
| Best Newscast | ||||
| First Place: |  |
NBC Nightly News “NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams in Afghanistan” 6/12/08 |
||
| Second Place: | CNN “American Morning: Post-Election Coverage” 11/5/08 |
|||
| Third Place: | NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams “The Election…The Day After” 11/5/08 |
|||
| Coverage of a Major News Event | ||||
| First Place: |  |
NBC News “Hurricane Gustav” |
||
| Second Place: | CNN “The Democratic National Convention” |
|||
| Third Place: | CNN “New Hampshire Primary” |
|||
| Continuing Coverage of a Major News Event | ||||
| First Place: |  |
Dateline NBC “Coming Home” |
||
| Second Place: | CNN “Haiti” |
|||
| Third Place: | No third place award given. | |||
| Feature, Sports or Human Interest Story | ||||
| First Place: | |
Dateline NBC “Out of Africa” Ann Curry, Justin Balding, Antoine Sanfuentes |
||
| Second Place: | NBC News Today Show “Potato Peeler Millionaire” Bob Dotson, Amanda Marshall |
|||
| Third Place: | Dateline NBC “Zack’s New Life” Natalie Morales, John Block & David Corvo |
|||
| Documentary or Series of Reports | ||||
| First Place: |  |
CNN “Special Investigations Unit: On Deadly Ground” |
||
| Second Place: | MSNBC “Meeting David Wilson” |
|||
| Third Place: | MSNBC “Dear Zachary” |
|||
| Investigative Reporting | ||||
| First Place: |  |
ABC News 20/20 “Off Duty Chicago Cops” Jim Avila, Glenn Ruppel |
||
| Second Place: | CBS News’ 60 Minutes “The Cheaters” Steve Croft, Ira Rosen, Sumi Aggarlwal |
|||
| Third Place: | No third place award given. | |||
| News Magazine Program | ||||
| First Place: | |
ABC News 20/20 “Cop as Criminal” Jim Avila, Alison Lynn, Lauren Pearle |
||
| Second Place: | Dateline NBC “Inside the Cell” Chris Hansen, Richard Greenberg, Paul Cruickshank |
|||
| Third Place: | Dateline NBC “A Twist of Fate” Matt Lauer, David Corvo, Liz Cole |
|||
| Business and Consumer Reporting | ||||
| First Place: | |
Dateline NBC “Tricks of the Trade” Chris Hansen, Steve Eckert, Maite Amorebieta |
||
| Second Place: | HDNet World Report and NOW on PBS “India Rising” Paul Beban, Kira Kay, Jason Maloney, John Siceloff, Ty West & Lesley Norman |
|||
| Third Place: | CNN “Special Investigations Unit: Busted! Mortgage Meltdown” |
|||
| Health/Science Reporting | ||||
| First Place: |  Kay |
 Mahoney |
HDNet World Report “Bill Gates and the Aravani” Paul Beban, Kira Kay, Jason Maloney |
|
| Second Place: | CNN “Special Investigations Unit: Fit to Lead” |
|||
| Third Place: | CNN “Special Investigations Unit: Broken Government: Healthcare Critical Condition” |
|||
| Environmental Reporting | ||||
| First Place: |  Breslauer |
 Iskander |
 Epstein |
NOW on PBS “Fighting Over Forests” Brenda Breslauer, Maria Hinojosa, Brian Epstein, Mona Iskander, John Siceloff, Ty West & Lesley Norman |
| Second Place: | HDNet World Report “Payatas: The Dark Side of Economic Growth” Paul Beban, Paul Roubicek |
|||
| Third Place: | CNN “Broken Government: Scorched Earth” |
|||
