Awards
IN PUBLIC MEDIA
SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS
NPR, KQED and the Center for Public Integrity earned top recognition in the 2008-09 Awards for Reporting on the Environment
Awardees to be honored in October [2009] by the Society of Environmental Journalists include students from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln whose reporting for Nebraska’s NET Television was lauded for outstanding student journalism.
Winning entries from public broadcasting are:
“Shifting Ground,” produced by David Baron for NPR's All Things Considered—first-place for in-depth beat reporting for radio. Judges in the competition praised Baron’s reportage as “[e]xactly what enterprising radio journalism should be. Each piece was entertaining and together formed a series on land-use conflicts not often reported on by the media.
Quest, “Tagging Pacific Predators,” produced by San Francisco’s KQED-TV — best story reported by a large- market television station. Credits cited Christopher Bauer, Jenny Oh, Josh Rosen, Laurie Schmidt and Paul Rogers. Judges commented that the combination of “[o]utstanding visuals, strong interviews and great narration” made the story “an example of truly great environmental reporting.”
The Hidden Costs of Clean Coal by the Center for Public Integrity — best online reporting. Credited for the multimedia package of investigative reports were Kristen Lombardi, Steven Sunshine, Sarah Laskow and David Donald. Judges praised the investigative coverage as “richly reported and explained in such an engaging and detailed way.” The center, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., is directed by Bill Buzenberg, former news chief for NPR and American Public Media.
Ethanol: Salvation or Damnation?, by the University of Nebraska and NET Television — best student reporting. Credited were Mimi Abebe, Melissa Drozda, Cassie Fleming, Alex Haueter, Lucas Jameson, Kosuke Koiwai, Aaron Price, and Kate Veik. Judges cited the coverage as “well-reported and exhaustive” and “a clear-cut winner.”
The full list of winners is here.
TEXAS RADIO HALL OF FAME
Paul Ray, host of KUT Radio’s Twine Time, is to be inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame
Since 1978 host of the Austin station’s popular Saturday- night rhythm and blues program since 1978, Ray joins such Hall of Fame inductees as Walter Cronkite, Sam Donaldson, Wolfman Jack and Cactus Pryor. Past employment in Texas radio is required of honorees. Ray, a musician, is also a member of the Texas Music Hall of Fame.
PRX ZEITFUNK AWARDS
Public Radio Exchange presented 13 Zeitfunk Awards honoring its most active users over the past year
Zeitfunk is a term coined by PRX that’s “like a zeitgeist — only funkier.” Included are various users — stations, producers and listeners — that used PRX's online programming auditioning, licensing and distribution services.
Winners received silly trophies and submitted pictures of their awards for a virtual awards ceremony. Paul Ingles, the producer whose piece,“The Bo Diddley Beat,” was 2008's most-licensed PRX program, received a surfer trophy with the quote “You Rode the Wave.” Ingles also won a Zeitfunk Award for the producing the most-listened-to PRX piece, “The White Album Listening Party.” For this he received a fencing trophy with the inscription, “Touche!”
Vinyl Café, the music and story-telling CBC show starring Stuart McLean, received two Zeitfunk Awards — as the most licensed series and the most licensed production group.
Winners in other licensing categories were: Fred Flaxman, the most-licensed producer; Sue Zizza, the most-licensed debut producer; Jon Kalish and Marty Goldensohn of Liner Notes, the most-licensed debut group; KUOW and Generation PRX’s “Our Time: Teens and Politics,” the most-licensed youth-produced piece; and WXPN in Philadelphia, most-licensed station.
KXOT in Tacoma, Wash., was cited as the station that licensed the most PRX content.
PRX presented Zeitfunk Awards to two additional programs. “Serbian Church Choirs: A Musical Tradition” by Cissy Rebich was the most-commented-on piece. The first episode of “Joe Strummer's London Calling” by Joyride Media was the most-“favorited” piece.
In addition, pubradio listener James Reiss, a poet and emeritus professor of English at Miami University of Ohio, was honored for being the most active PRX commenter in 2008. He received a weightlifter Zeitfunk trophy with the inscription, “You did some heavy lifting.”
Link to the whole list and more.
AWIC CLARION AWARDS
Six of the nine Clarion Awards in radio went to public radio productions
The Association for Women in Communications will present its 2009 awards for excellence during its conference Oct. 17 in Seattle.
Pubcasters received Clarions in radio and other categories:
Radio Regular Feature Program: KCRW-FM, Santa Monica, Calif., Good Food; Evan Kleiman, host; Jennifer Ferro, e.p.
Radio Regular Talk or Interview Program: The Splendid Table; Sally Swift, managing producer; Lynne Rosietto Kasper, host; Jennifer Russell, producer.
Radio Feature Story: PRI’s The World, “Visiting North Korea;” Lisa Mullins, reporter.
Radio Documentary Series: KCRW-FM, Santa Monica; McCabe’s at 50; Lincoln Myerson, narrator/writer; Ariana Morgenstern, producer.
Radio Documentary: Michigan Radio, “Foreclosing on the American Dream”; Christina Shockley, narrator.
Women’s Issues Radio Program: WRHU, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.; “Women in Sports Broadcasting”; Frances Spencer, host and associate e.p.; Ed Ingles, e.p.
Television Feature Story/Segment, National: Kathleen Norris, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; Bob Abernethy, host; Arnold Labaton, e.p.; Patti Jette Hanley, producer
Television Show—Informational—Local or Regional: NetWorth Television Productions, Tiburon, Calif.; MoneyTrack; Pam Krueger, e.p. and co-host; Neil Alford, series producer; Katie Horgan, producer. (The series is presented by KCTS, Seattle.)
Special Print Communications—Guide: WGBH in Boston, Martha Speaks’ Reading Buddies Program; Cyrisse Jaffee, editorial projects director.
ENGINEERING EMMY AWARDS
The Jim Henson Co. received an Engineering Emmy Award for the system it devised for Sid the Science Kid
The technique used by the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio on the PBS Kids program allows performers "to puppeteer and voice digital characters in real time on a sound-stage setting with multiple virtual cameras and a real-time viewer, generating a high yield per minute and cutting both animation time and costs exponentially," according to a statement from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
It's one of four Engineering Emmys to be presented at an Aug. 22 ceremony in Los Angeles.
Compiled by Karen Everhart and colleagues.
Posted Aug. 7, 2009
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