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NewsRadio1620 Wins Fourth Edward R. Murrow Award
April 25, 2013
NewsRadio1620 has won an Edward R. Murrow First Place Regional Award for its local coverage of the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings on December 14, 2012.
The coverage was anchored by afternoon talk host Branden Rathert, news anchor Jeff Knox and producer Paul Stadden.
The prestigious annual ward is presented by the Radio Television Digital News Foundation honors excellence in journalism and is named for legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow. The station is now eligible to win a national award for the coverage from the RTDNF. This is the fourth consecutive year the station has won the award.
In 2010, NewsRadio1620 won a regional award for coverage of the Billings murders. Coverage of the 2011 Gulf Oil Spill earned a national award for the station. And Rathert won the regional award in 2012 for his documentary, “ESCO 24/7″, based on the crime fighting efforts of the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
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Congratulations to Newsradio 1620. It’s nice that the only talk station in town that has any live people in the building after 10am is getting some recognition for doing a job that you have to have an actual staff to do. Everyone else just ran their network news feeds and they syndicated bobbleheads.