The RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS ASSOCIATION has announced the winners of the 2023 EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS for Region 6, OKLAHOMA and TEXAS. The regional winners move on to the national awards competition with those winners announced in AUGUST.
The Region 6 radio winners:
Large Market
Breaking News Coverage: AUDACY News KRLD-A/DALLAS, “DECEMBER 2022 DFW Tornado Outbreak”Continuing Coverage: TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO/SAN ANTONIO in partnership with THE TEXAS NEWSROOM, “Continuing Coverage of the UVALDE School Shooting”Digital: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS News-Talk KUT/AUSTINExcellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO, “The Enduring Gap”Excellence in Innovation: TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO in partnership with THE TEXAS NEWSROOM, “Latino Voter Engagement Project”Excellence in Sound: TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO, “Mariachi Extravaganza: Meet the Competitors in this Year’s ‘Mariachi Super Bowl’”Excellence in Writing: TEXAS STANDARD/AUSTIN, “The Complicated Legacy of CÉSAR CHÁVEZ”Feature Reporting: TEXAS STANDARD, “Searching for SAM HOUSTON’s Mysterious Graveside Visitor”Hard News: HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA, “Pace of HARRIS COUNTY Home Buyouts Slower than Hoped for after Hurricane Harvey”Investigative Reporting: TEXAS STANDARD, “The Cutoff”News Documentary: HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA, “Below the Waterlines: HOUSTON after Hurricane Harvey”News Series: TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO, “Your Teachers Are Not Okay”Newscast: KRLD-A, “FEBRUARY 2022 Winter Weather Cripples DFW”Podcast: KUT, “THE DISCONNECT: POWER, POLITICS AND THE TEXAS BLACKOUT”Sports Reporting: KUT, “Sandlot Baseball Grows in AUSTIN, Attracting its Own All-Stars”Overall Excellence: TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO
Small Market
Continuing Coverage: MARFA PUBLIC RADIO, “The BLACKWELL SCHOOL’s Path to Becoming a National Historic Site”Digital: MARFA PUBLIC RADIOExcellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: MARFA PUBLIC RADIO, “Midland: Our City, Our Stories”Excellence in Innovation: MARFA PUBLIC RADIO, “So Far from Care”Excellence in Sound: MARFA PUBLIC RADIO, “As Droughts Continue across the State, TEXAS Ranchers Try to Keep Up with Rising Prices”Excellence in Writing: KWIT-KOJI, SHEILA BRUMMERExcellence in Writing: MARFA PUBLIC RADIO, “In WEST TEXAS, a Boom in Earthquakes Alongside a Boom in Oil Drilling”Feature Reporting: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO News-Talk KTEP/EL PASO, “Marijuana on the State Line”Hard News: KTEP, “Military Uses Training, Tests New Virtual Reality Tool to Prevent Suicides”News Documentary: MARFA PUBLIC RADIO, “25 Years Later, PRESIDIO and REDFORD Remember ESEQUIEL HERNANDEZ JR.”Newscast: BRYAN BROADCASTING CO. News-Talk WTAW-A-K233DU/COLLEGE STATION, TX, “WTAW Newscast, 11/25/22 at 6:05 a.m.”Overall Excellence: WTAW
The RADIO TELEVISION DIGITAL NEWS ASSOCIATION has announced the winners of the 2023 EDWARD R. MURROW AWARDS for Region 6, OKLAHOMA and TEXAS. The regional winners move on to the national awards competition with those winners announced in AUGUST.The Region 6 radio winners:Large MarketBreaking News Coverage: AUDACY News KRLD-A/DALLAS, “DECEMBER 2022 DFW Tornado Outbreak”Continuing Coverage: TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO/SAN ANTONIO in partnership with THE TEXAS NEWSROOM, “Continuing …