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Click here. National Award For AkronNewsNow.com 7/1/2008 1:36:35 PM | Edward L. Esposito AkronNewsNow.com is one of 54 news organizations in the U.S. and Canada recognized for news excellence with the prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Award.  CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, in a photo taken during coverage of World War II in London. Murrow is considered the father of U.S. broadcast journalism for his reporting. (photo: CBS Photography)
advertisement Other winners in the website category include WFAA-TV Dallas, TX; WSYR-TV Syracuse, NY; WTOP-FM Washington, D.C.; The Dallas Morning News Dallas, TX;
Overall, 77 national Edward R. Murrow Awards will be presented during an awards ceremony October 13, 2008 in New York. This is the first national award for AkronNewsNow, which launched in October 2006. The website is powered by the news department of the Rubber City Radio Group, which also provides news, sports, and community affairs programs for WAKR-AM, WQMX-FM and WONE-FM in Akron.
AkronNewsNow.com was also honored last month with the Ohio Associated Press Broadcaster's Association award for best website, medium market radio category.
(Editor's note: the writer also serves as Chairman of RTNDA)
News Release from RTNDA
The Radio-Television News Directors Association has announced the 2008 winners of the coveted Edward R. Murrow Awards, honoring excellence in electronic journalism.
In the network television category, ABC News has been awarded a total of six Murrows, including one for Overall Excellence. CBS News wins four awards, including one for Best Newscast for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. NBC and ESPN have also won. In network radio, CBS News Radio wins five awards, including one for Overall Excellence. ABC News Radio, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio each won two awards. XM Satellite Radio is honored with a Murrow. Disaster coverage figured in many of the winning stories both in radio and television, including reports on the Virginia Tech shootings and the Minneapolis Bridge collapse. Reports on the plight of injured Iraq war veterans' returning home was the subject of both the winning Continuing Coverage entry from CBS News and the ABC News Documentary entry. ABC News (network television) Several local stations won multiple national Murrows. They are: KGO-AM, San Francisco (Feature: Hard News, Use of Sound) 2008 National Edward R. Murrow Winners
Television Network/Syndication Service Overall Excellence: ABC News
Continuing Coverage: CBS News, Boots on the Ground Feature: Hard News: ABC News, Children of War Feature Reporting: CBS News, The Way Home Investigative Reporting: ABC News, Brian Ross Investigates: Prescriptions for Error News Documentary: ABC News, To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports News Series: ESPN Deportes, Sobrevivientes - Still Alive Newscast: CBS News, The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric Sports Reporting: ESPN, ESPN SportsCenter: Sister Andrea Jaeger Spot News Coverage: ABC News, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse Videography: ABC News, Key to the World: Kiribati Website: CBS News, cbsnews.com Writing: NBC News - The Today Show, American Story with Bob Dotson Radio Network/Syndication Service Overall Excellence: CBS Radio News Overall Excellence: KOMO-TV, Seattle Overall Excellence: WJAR-TV, Cranston, RI Overall Excellence: WBAL-AM, Baltimore Overall Excellence: KFDI-FM/KFDI-AM, Wichita, KS Dallas Morning News, www.dallasnews.com Content © AkronNewsNow.com. All rights reserved. Comments AkronNewsNow.com reserves the right to delete posts, and we encourage readers to report potential inappropriate posts. We believe in vigorous and open discussion of public issues, but we do not permit spam, commercial sales, personal insults, personal attacks or extensive postings which are off-topic or inappropriate for reasons such as profanity, libelous content or simple respect for the opinions of others. Content is important, but so is behavior. Decisions by the editor are the sole discretion of AkronNewsNow.com. posted at 7/1/2008 6:50:58 PM (1852)  mischief said:Great Job, ANN! You guys are always on top of the breaking stories, keep it up. If you wish to leave a comment, please log in or register.
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