WGLT has earned three national awards for exceptional Digital Writing, Newscast, and Photojournalism from the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA).
The awards were announced Saturday by PMJA, which annually awards journalists across the country. WGLT competes in Division B, based on staff size.
WGLT earned second place in the Digital Writing category for a story from Ryan Denham titled, "No, the expiring Uptown TIF and Rivian tax breaks won’t solve Unit 5's financial problems." His story deconstructs how other sources of additional tax revenue may (or may not) help McLean County Unit 5 school district address its budget deficit.
Additionally, WGLT earned second place in the Newscast category for an exceptional newscast from Charlie Schlenker in which he details the impacts of the Russian war in Ukraine on various industries and updates on local crime.
Lastly, WGLT earned first place in Photojournalism for a photo from student photographer Emily Bollinger that captured the crowd at a Leah Marlene concert in Uptown Normal.
PMJA is a highly esteemed association representing public media journalists across the U.S.
WGLT, Bloomington-Normal’s Public Media, is part of the NPR Network licensed to and operating from Illinois State University in Normal. WGLT is McLean County’s leader in local news, and also provides the highest quality national and international news via the NPR Network. Award-winning local news is featured in the weekday morning podcast The Leadoff, and in the weekday evening newsmagazine Sound Ideas. WGLT champions independent nonprofit journalism as our public service duty with on-air and digital content freely available to all who want it at 89.1 FM, WGLT.org, the NPR app, Facebook and Instagram.
You can learn more about WGLT’s history of award-winning journalismon our Awards page.
