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| RADIO STATIONS | ||||
| Radio stations newscast, all markets | ||||
| First Place: | “May 2, 2011” WTOP News Staff WTOP, Washington, DC. |
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| Second Place: | “5 a.m. Newscast” WBAL News staff WBAL News, Baltimore, MD |
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| Third Place: | “8 a.m. News” KCBS News Team KCBS Radio, San Francisco, CA |
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| Radio stations breaking news or continuing coverage of a single news event | ||||
| First Place: | “Capital Quake” WTOP News Staff WTOP Radio, Washington, D.C. |
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| Second Place: | “Tuscaloosa Tornado” Alabama Public Radio Alabama Public Radio, Tuscaloosa, AL |
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| Third Place: | “Occupy Oakland Riot” Chris Filippi and the KCBS news team KCBS Radio, San Francisco, CA |
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| Radio stations feature or human interest story, all markets | ||||
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“Bail Bonds: Fugitives on the Run, Bondsmen on the Hunt” Tristram Korten, Dan Grech and Kenny Malone WLRN Under the Sun with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, Miami, FL |
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| Second Place: | “Doody Calls” John Patti WBAL Radio, Baltimore, MD |
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| Third Place: | “Muffled Metro” Adam Tuss WTOP News, Washington, D.C. |
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| Radio stations documentary or public affairs | ||||
| First Place: | “Auburn Gresham Chicago series” Bill Healy and Cate Cahan WBEZ 91.5-FM, Chicago, IL |
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| Second Place: | “The Sound of Ideas” Sound of Ideas staff 90.3 WCPN ideastream, Cleveland, OH |
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| Third Place: | “BRAC Impact” WTOP Radio News Staff WTOP Radio, Washington, DC |
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| Radio stations news series | ||||
| First Place: | “WBT Investigates: The Tax Train” Jeff Sonier WBT, Charlotte, NC |
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| Second Place: | “A Whole New Ballgame” Scott Wykoff WBAL Radio, Baltimore, MD |
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| Third Place: | “Hero’s Highway” J.J. Green WTOP, Washington, D.C. |
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| BROADCAST RADIO NETWORKS & SYNDICATORS | ||||
| Newscast | ||||
| First Place: | Vicki Barker, Sam Litzinger and Kathleen Biggins CBS Radio News, New York, NY |
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| Second Place: | no award given | |||
| Third Place: | no award given | |||
| Breaking news or continuing coverage | ||||
| First Place: | “Death of Osama bin Laden” CBS Radio News staff CBS Radio News, New York, NY |
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| Second Place: | “Wall Street’s Wild Week” MarketWatch Radio Network staff MarketWatch Radio Network, Washington, DC |
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| Third Place: | “Local firefighters honor 9/11 first responders” Ben Markus Colorado Public Radio, Centennial, CO |
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| Feature or human interest story | ||||
| First Place: | “Getting Hands on at Colorado Gators” Megan Verlee Colorado Public Radio, Centennial, CO |
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| Second Place: | “Mexican Ghost Town” Michel Marizco and Alisa Barba KJZZ/The Fronteras Desk, Tempe, AZ |
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| Third Place: | no award given | |||
| Documentary or public affairs | ||||
| First Place: | “Living 9/11” Marianne McCune, Emily Botein, Karen Frillmann and Chris Bannon WNYC Radio, New York, NY with PRX, the Public Radio Exchange |
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| Second Place: | “CBS News Weekend Roundup: 9-11 Revisited” Dan Raviv and Howard Arenstein CBS Radio News, New York, NY |
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| Third Place: | “Mexico’s Drug War in Context” Shannon Young and Catherine Komp Free Speech Radio News, Toledo, OR |
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| News series | ||||
| First Place: | “Where the Jobs Are” Mark Mills, Carol Massar and Al Mayers WBBR Bloomberg Radio, New York, NY |
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| Second Place: | “9/11: Ten Years Later” Heather Bosch CBS Radio News, New York, NY |
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| Third Place: | “Changing Gears Manufacturing Series” Changing Gears team Changing Gears, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| BROADCAST OR CABLE TELEVISION STATIONS | ||||
| Newscast | ||||
| First Place: | “KIRO Eyewitness News at 5” Kiley Riffell, Dave Humphrey and Jake Wiederrich KIRO-TV, Seattle, WA |
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| Second Place: | “Newscenter 5 at 11: Bulger Captured” Chris Roach and Joanne Pallotta WCVB-TV, Needham, MA |
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| Third Place: | “11 News Tonight: The Death of William Donald Schaefer” WBAL-TV News Team WBAL-TV, Baltimore, MD |
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| Coverage of a live breaking news event | ||||
| First Place: | “State Fair Tragedy” WTHR-TV news team WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Second Place: | “Vancouver Riots” Gary Horcher, Jim Waltz and Mike Lozensky KIRO-TV, Seattle, WA |
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| Third Place: | “Officers Down” WFTS-TV/ABC Action News staff WFTS-TV/ABC Action News, Tampa, FL |
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| Continuing coverage of a single news event | ||||
| First Place: | “State Fair Stage Collapse” Sandra Chapman, Jeremy Brilliant and Cyndee Hebert WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Second Place: | “Knox Not Guilty- Returns” KIRO-TV News Staff KIRO-TV, Seattle WA |
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| Third Place: | “Leading the Way Home” Mark Albert and Chris Hansen KSTP-TV, ST. Paul, MN |
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| Feature, sports or human interest story | ||||
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“A Family’s Courage” Joe Fryer, Matt Mrozinski and Doug Burgess KING-TV, Seattle, WA |
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| Second Place: | “Duffers” Boyd Huppert and Jonathan Malat KARE-TV, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Third Place: | “50-year Secret” Kevin Rader and Steve Rhodes WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Public service | ||||
| First Place: | “Their Crime, Your Dime” Chris Ingalls, Kellie Cheadle and Steve Douglas KING-TV, Seattle, WA |
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| Second Place: | “Asleep at the Wheel” Stuart Watson, John Gray and Jeremy Markovich WCNC-TV, Charlotte, NC |
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| Third Place: | “Livegiving Transplant Stories” Kay Colby, David Molpus and Mark Rosenberger WVIZ/PBS ideastream, Cleveland, OH |
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| Documentary or series of reports on the same subject | ||||
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“A Journey of Hope” Mark Albert and Jared Bergerson KSTP-TV, St. Paul, MN |
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| Second Place: | “A Matter of Risk: Radiation, Drinking Water and Deception” David Raziq, Mark Greenblatt and Keith Tomshe KHOU-TV, Houston, TX |
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| Third Place: | “Constable Corruption” Wayne Dolcefino, Kevin Hirten and Colin McIntyre KTRK-TV, Houston, TX |
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| Investigative reporting | ||||
| First Place: | “Pension Games” Mark Suppelsa, Marsha Bartel, Jason Grotto, Ray Long and Jodi Cohen WGN-TV – Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL |
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| Second Place: | “Hiding Behind the Badge” Lee Zurik, Donny Pearce, Greg Phillips and Marcy Planer WVUE-TV, New Orleans, LA |
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| Third Place: | “Operation Deep Freeze” Ron Regan, Melissa Watson and Rob Gardner WEWS-TV, Cleveland, OH |
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| Business and consumer reporting | ||||
| First Place: | “Direct Care Deception” Don Dare and Dave Wignall WATE-TV, Knoxville, TN |
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| Second Place: | “China Hub” Craig Cheatham and Jim Thomas KMOV-TV, St. Louis, MO |
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| Third Place: | “Destination Discrimination” Tisha Thompson, Rick Yarborough and Steve Jones WTTG-TV, Washington, DC |
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| Health/science reporting | ||||
| First Place: | “Hot Trucks” Bob Segall, Bill Ditton and Cyndee Hebert WTHR-TV, Indianapolis, IN |
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| Second Place: | “Head Games” Jena Triggs, Heather Unruh and Jennifer Berryman WCVB-TV, Needham, MA |
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| Third Place: | no award given | |||
| Environmental reporting | ||||
| First Place: | “Children at Risk: A Forgotten Law” Ben Hall and Iain Montgomery Newschannel 5 Network, Nashville, TN |
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| Second Place: | “Great Lakes Invasion” Ash-har Quraishi, Basma Babar-Quraishi and Tom Siegel WTTW, Chicago, IL |
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| Third Place: | “Oil Spill Anniversary Coverage” Carson Chambers and Delisa Walden WFTS-TV, Tampa, FL |
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| BROADCAST TELEVISION NETWORKS, CABLE NETWORKS AND SYNDICATORS | ||||
| Newscast | ||||
| First Place: | “Blown Away: Southern Tornadoes” NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams staff NBC Nightly News, New York, NY |
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| Second Place: | “The Fall of Mubarak” NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams staff NBC Nightly News, New York, NY |
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| Third Place: | no award given | |||
| Coverage of a major news event | ||||
| First Place: | “Joplin Tornado Live Coverage” The Weather Channel The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA |
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| Second Place: | “Anderson Cooper: Egypt Uprising” Anderson Cooper, Ivan Watson, Ben Wedeman and Hala Gorani CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Third Place: | “Sanjay Gupta MD: Quake Tsunami Disaster” Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Roni Selig and Danielle Dellorto CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Continuing coverage of a major news event | ||||
| First Place: | “Witness to Famine” Mike McCarthy, Sheri England, Allison Flexner and Aja Harris CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Second Place: | “CNN coverage of the Libyan Revolt” Parisa Khosravi, CNN Worldwide and CNN International Newsgathering Team CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Third Place: | “The Battle for Libya” Staff at NBC Nightly News NBC Nightly News, New York, NY |
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| Feature, sports or human interest story | ||||
| First Place: | “E:60 Dead Solid Perfect, The Mike Reeder Story” Ben Houser ESPN, Bristol, CT |
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| Second Place: | “E:60 The Wrestler” Ben Houser and John Minton ESPN, Bristol, CT |
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| Third Place: | “E:60 Hero, The Paco Rodriguez Story” Frank Saraceno and Vin Cannamela ESPN |
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| Documentary or series of reports on the same subject | ||||
| First Place: | “Erasing Hate” MSNBC and Bill Brummel Productions MSNBC, New York, NY |
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| Second Place: | “The CNN Freedom Project” CNN Worldwide Staff CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Third Place: | “Restoring the American Dream: Fixing Education” Fareed Zakaria, Tom Goldstone and Ravi Agrawal CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Investigative reporting | ||||
| First Place: | “Dan Rivers: Factory Slaves” Dan Rivers, Kocha Olarn, Jonathan Wald and Andy Carey CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Second Place: | “World’s Untold Stories: Locked Up and Forgotten” Mike McCarthy, Sheri England and David McKenzie CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Third Place: | “E60: Night Mare” Heather Lombardo ESPN, Bristol, CT |
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| News magazine program | ||||
| First Place: | “Inside Mexico’s Drug War” David Corvo, Liz Cole, Allan Maraynes and Solly Granatstein Dateline NBC News, New York, NY |
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| Second Place: | “Dateline: Disaster in Japan” David Corvo, Elizabeth Cole and Dateline NBC News staff Dateline NBC News, New York, NY |
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| Third Place: | “Help Wanted: the Uncounted Millions” Jessica Wang, William Brangham, Marc Rosenwasser, John Larson, Scott Simon, Judith Starr Wolff and Tim Geraghty Need to Know on PBS/WNET, New York, NY |
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| Business and consumer reporting | ||||
| First Place: | “Power Bracelets”Lisa Guerrero, Larry Posner and Scott Phillips Inside Edition, New York, NY |
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| Second Place: | “Dreamliner” Mitch Weitzner, Wally Griffith and Phil LeBeau CNBC, Englewood Cliffs, NJ |
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| Third Place: | “Water Bill Wars” Scott Zamost and Kyra Phillips CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Health/science reporting | ||||
| First Place: | “Losing the Safety Net”Laura LeBlanc, Alison Stewart, Brenda Breslauer, Shelley Lewis and David KregerNeed to Know on PBS/WNET, New York, NY | |||
| Second Place: | “Worlds Untold Stories: Filling the Blank” Mike McCarthy, Sheri England, Felipe Barral, Scott McGhee and Diana Diaz CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Third Place: | “Saving Baby Pierce” Elizabeth Cohen, Roni Selig, Jennifer Bixler and Aaron Cooper CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Environmental reporting | ||||
| First Place: | “Extreme Science” Mike McCarthy, Sheri England, Matt Vigil and Philippe Cousteau CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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| Second Place: | “Toxic Law” Laura LeBlanc, Dr. Emily Senay, Brenda Breslauer, Marc Rosenwasser and David Kreger Need to Know on PBS/WNET, New York, NY |
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| Third Place: | “Water in Schools” Dr. Sanjay Gupta, William Hudson and Damir Loretic CNN, Atlanta, GA |
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