The Radio Television Digital News Association [RTDNA] awarded WGLT, Bloomington-Normal’s Public Media and part of the NPR Network, two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. The region includes Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
WGLT won in two categories for small market radio. The first is Investigative Reporting for “Where Orders of Protection Fail,” a series by Lauren Warnecke, Ryan Denham and Charlie Schlenker. The second category is Overall Excellence which WGLT won for the second consecutive year.
WGLT will now advance to the National Murrow Award competition.
The RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Awards are among the most prestigious in broadcast and digital news. The RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Murrow set as a standard for the profession of broadcast and digital journalism. In the last 20 years, WGLT has amassed 40 Regional Murrow Awards and five National Murrow Awards.
“The WGLT newsroom produces outstanding journalism day in and day out for our community, and this recognition is extremely well-deserved,” said WGLT Executive Director R.C. McBride. “At a time when Illinois has been decimated by the loss of local journalist jobs and public media funding is under continued attack, accolades like this are a great reminder to stay focused on our public service mission providing our community with the highest quality news and programming that is freely accessible to all."
