Awards
Posted Aug. 17, 2010
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS
When Healey Hamilton first met a seahorse, she said in KQED's Quest, she was completely hooked — "I was crying in my facemask." (Image from the KQED program.)
KQED’s Quest multiplatform science series won four awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
And public radio shows won three radio Reporting on the Environment awards for beat and in-depth reporting. SEJ will bestow its awards at its annual conference, Oct. 13-17 at the University of Montana in Missoula.
For the third year in a row KQED’s Quest won SEJ’s Outstanding Story award among TV stations in large markets for “Seahorse Sleuths,” about protecting the endangered creatures that are prized as a delicacy in Japan. Online here. SEJ credited: Producer, Joan Johnson; Associate Producer, Jenny Oh; Editors, Shirley Gutierrez and Kenji Yamamoto; Josh Rosen, Series Producer; and Paul Rogers, Managing Editor.
Quest also won third place in that category for “Algae Power,” and two second-place awards for "National Parks Special: Bringing the Parks to the People" and "Visit to the Farallon Islands.”
Public radio shows won in these categories:
Outstanding Beat, In-depth Reporting, Radio: Jason Margolis of PRI’s The World, produced by the BBC, PRI and WGBH, for “Architects Share Green Building Ideas.” Online here. The SEJ judges praised the reporter’s use of sound, writing, interviews and the clarity he achieved in a report on architecture in radio. “This piece stood head and shoulders above the competition for the reporter’s skill in taking a simple and increasingly familiar concept — greenhouse gas emissions — and helping the listener understand it in terms of the spaces so many of us inhabit during our workdays,” an SEJ statement said.
Michigan Radio’s The Environment Report — recently cut back for economic reasons — took second place in the category for its “Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future,” and Ingrid Lobet of PRI’s Living on Earth took third place for its “On Their Own Terms,” about recycling of electronic products in the U.S. borderlands.
PBS NewsHour also won a second place from SEJ for team reporting on environmental degradation in Borneo.
Also, ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative newsroom, and journalists Abrahm Lustgarten, Joaquin Sapien and Sabrina Shankman took a second place in investigative reporting, print, with “Natural Gas Drilling: A Threat to Water,” about little-known wastewater pollution problems.
Of 216 entries in the competition, 29 were named winners.
The full list of winners is posted here.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS
Public radio producers won six of the year’s eight radio awards given by the National Association of Black Journalists
Two were won by NPR and two by Chicago Public Radio. Three public TV stations also received NABJ Salute to Excellence National Media Awards Aug. 8 at the group’s 2010 convention in Tampa.
Pubradio programming won in these categories:
Radio — News, Long-Form: William Craven and Felix Contreras of NPR for “The Music of Africa, By Way of Latin America.”
Radio — Commentary: the staff of NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin, for commentaries on the show.
Radio — Public Affairs Interview/Discussion: Anita S. Woodley and Dick Gordon, at North Carolina Public Radio/WUNC-FM, Chapel Hill, for “Thinking Big” on The Story.
Radio — News, Long-form, Top 15 Market: Amon “A.J.” Frazier,Courtney Stein, Marianne McCune and Kaari Pitkin of WNYC Radio, for “Promotion in Doubt.”
Radio — Public Affairs Program, Top-15 Market: Gabriel Spitzer and Cate Cahan of Chicago Public Radio for “Twice as Deadly: Chicago’s Race Gap in Breast Cancer Survival.”
Radio – Public Affairs, Interview/ Discussion: Top-15 Market: Richard Steele, Eilee Heikenen-Weiss and Aurora Aguilar of Chicago Public Radio for “Barbershop Welcomes Discussion of Youth Violence.”
Public TV programs won in three categories:
Television Segment, among 10 largest markets: Nicholas Shields of WTTW, Chicago, for “Damarra’s Story.”
Television — Interview/Discussion, among 10 largest markets: Angela Robinson and Vickie Whitlock of WPBA, Atlanta, for “Trauma of Slavery, Part 1.”
Television — Public Affairs Segment, in markets 16 and smaller: Everett Marshburn of Milwaukee Public Television for Black Nouveau: “Soultime at The Apollo.” Marshburn and co-producer Liddie Collins covered the Milwaukee Fatherhood Summit.
The full list of NABJ awards is online.
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