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DES MOINES, IA (April 24, 2019) – The Radio Television Digital News Association announced Tuesday winners of the 2019 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. Meredith Corporation (NYSE:MDP; www.meredith.com) television stations KMOV-TV (St. Louis); WSMV-TV (Nashville); WFSB-TV (Hartford); KCTV-TV (Kansas City); KVVU-TV ( Las Vegas); and WALA-TV (Mobile, AL) were recognized for outstanding work in categories like Breaking News and Continuing Coverage amongst others.
“I am proud of the great journalism our stations are doing across the Meredith Local Media Group,” said Patrick McCreery, Local Media Group President. “The Murrow Awards are among the most prestigious in broadcast and digital news and Meredith’s nine award winners demonstrate the kind of journalism our audiences want and expect from our news teams.”
Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence set by Murrow as a standard for the profession of broadcast and digital journalism.
Regional Murrow Award winners automatically advance to national judging. National winners will be announced in June.
Meredith is proud to recognize the stations that have won a Regional Murrow Award in the following categories:
- Continuing Coverage, KMOV-TV, St. Louis – “The Governor Investigation”
- Breaking News Coverage, KMOV-TV, St. Louis, MO – “The Governor Resigns”
- Breaking News Coverage, WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN – “Waffle House Shooting”
- Feature Reporting, WSMV-TV, Nashville – “Daddy, We're All Here”
- Excellence in Writing, “WFSB-TV, Hartford, CT – Norwalk Child Flu Death”
- Feature Reporting, WFSB-TV, Hartford – “Norwalk Child Flu Death”
- Newscast, KCTV, Kansas City, MO – 10pm Newscast "Branson Tragedy"
- News Series, KVVU-TV, Henderson, NV – “1 October Storytellers”
- Investigative Reporting, WALA-TV, Mobile, AL – “Day Care Dangers”
Meredith Corporation has been committed to service journalism for more than 115 years. Today, Meredith uses multiple distribution platforms – including broadcast television, print and digital – to provide consumers with content they desire and to deliver the messages of its advertising partners.
Meredith's Local Media Group includes 17 television stations reaching 11 percent of U.S. households. Meredith's portfolio is concentrated in large, fast-growing markets, with seven stations in the nation's Top 25 and 13 in Top 50 markets. Meredith's stations produce approximately 700 hours of local news and entertainment content each week and operate leading local digital destinations.