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WVTF Public Radio wins prestigious
Edward R. Murrow Award
WVTF
is the recipient of a prestigious award from the Radio Television News
Directors Association (RTNDA). WVTF has
been chosen to receive a regional Edward R. Murrow
award in the feature reporting category for the
The
award recognizes WVTF reporter Sandy Hausman's
"Dinner in the Dark" story, a feature about a
http://www.wvtf.org/news_and_notes/index.php?audioPage=11.
Ms Hausman’s story qualifies WVTF
for entry into the national award competition with winners to be announced
later this year.
RTNDA
has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the
Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow's pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the
spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow
Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession.
WVTF
has previously won Edward R. Murrow Awards, and in
1996 it won a national award for regional news coverage. WVTF Public Radio is a National Public Radio
(NPR) member station broadcasting news, classical and jazz music, public
affairs, and other cultural programming on 89.1 in
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