WYPR Awards
The WYPR News Team and Midday took home several awards for the 2019 Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Contest.
Winners are:
Outstanding Editorial or Commentary
First Place: Joel McCord, "My Hometown Mourns"
Outstanding News Series
Second Place: John Lee, "Fighting for the Falls”
Outstanding Documentary/In-Depth Reporting
Second Place: Tom Hall, Cianna Greaves and Rob Sivak, "The Capital Gazette Shooting: Perspectives on a Tragedy"
Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing Story
Second Place: John Lee and Dominique Maria Bonessi, "Election 2018: Baltimore County Executive"
Joel McCord also took home a PRNDI (Public Radio News Director Incorporated) commentary award for "My Hometown Mourns"
Hear the other winning pieces below.
Winners are:
Outstanding Editorial or Commentary
First Place: Joel McCord, "My Hometown Mourns"
Outstanding News Series
Second Place: John Lee, "Fighting for the Falls”
Outstanding Documentary/In-Depth Reporting
Second Place: Tom Hall, Cianna Greaves and Rob Sivak, "The Capital Gazette Shooting: Perspectives on a Tragedy"
Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing Story
Second Place: John Lee and Dominique Maria Bonessi, "Election 2018: Baltimore County Executive"
Joel McCord also took home a PRNDI (Public Radio News Director Incorporated) commentary award for "My Hometown Mourns"
Hear the other winning pieces below.
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Baltimore Public Media has been honored alongside American Public Media Reports (APM) with a prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting in the Network Radio Division. -
The PMJA Annual Awards are designed to recognize the very best in public media work done by local public media outlets. -
WYPR 88.1 FM, Baltimore’s NPR station, has been honored with four first-place and six finalist awards from the Washington, D.C., Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. -
Reporter Emily Hofstaedter won in the "Continuing Coverage" and reporter Scott Maucione won in the "Hard News" category. -
CAPBA is an independent association comprised of local members of The Associated Press, a not-for-profit news cooperative that represents thousands of newspapers and broadcast stations across the United States. -
Baltimore’s NPR Station receives 7 Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association awards, 2 Public Media Journalists Association awards and 4 Society of Professional Journalist DC Dateline awards. WYPR also won 2 Regional Edward R. Murrow awards which are among the most prestigious in news. -
WYPR has been honored with two Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) 2024 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards in the Radio | Large Market categories of “Excellence in Sound” and “News Series.” -
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