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KVUE, KEYE win national Murrow Awards
KVUE, the long-time No. 1 local news station in Austin, has won a national 2007 Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence.
And KEYE picked up a national award for its news series, “ER: In Critical Condition” by Seema Mathur.
The winners were announced in Washington, D.C., this morning by the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The awards will be presented at the RTNDA Awards Dinner in New York on Oct. 15.
In all 52 news organizations were honored with 79 awards out of a pool of 3,150 entries from 580 news organizations.
To earn an overall excellence award, considered the top honor, a station or network must “consistently demonstrate depth and scope in its coverage,” according to the RTNDA.
Besides KVUE, which is owned by Belo Corp., the overall excellence winners this year are “NBC Nightly News” in the network category and KYW-TV in Philadelphia in the large market TV category. KVUE won in the small market category.
RTNDA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971.
To see the complete list of winners, check the RTNDA Web site.
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By austinights
June 18, 2007 3:43 PM | Link to this
I'm trying to remember the last time I remember watching local news....hmmmm...the weather on News8Austin. I just think that by the time I get home to watch the news - its already old and I've read about it online. Now I think the local news online is good, because I can see videostreams and quick updates as it happens during the actual work day. I believe that's the evolution of new media into our TV market place in action. The thing I find completely ridiculous about local news, though, is reporting on events in other parts of the country. Don't enough things happen in the greater Austin area to fill a news cycle? Maybe not. Just a thought.