06/16/2010


AP Press Release

AP wins 7 national Murrow Awards for online and radio news

The Associated Press won a total of seven radio and video honors in the 2010 National Edward R. Murrow Awards announced today by the Radio Television Digital News Association, including a sweep of the online news video category.

“We’re proud to have swept the awards for online news organizations with a rich variety of enterprise, news and features and to claim a breaking news award for radio,” said AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll. “The winning work showcases the breadth of our journalists’ reporting, insight and creativity from every corner of the globe.”

AP Radio’s January 2009 coverage of a jetliner making an emergency landing in the Hudson River won for audio breaking news coverage. A variety of AP stories -- about the economy, a Virginia synthetic ski slope, toxic water fountains, a kidney swap and the U.S. military -- captured all six winning spots in the category of Online News Operation-National for video continuing coverage, video feature reporting, video reporting-hard news, video investigative reporting, video news documentary and video news series.

"AP provides a full range of online tools and video options for our customers, to give them everything they could need or want to for video for their Web sites,” said Bill Burke, AP’s global director of online video products. “But it all starts with content, and these are powerful examples of that."

In its announcement, RTDNA noted: For the first time in 2010 RTDNA honored audio and video news produced exclusively for online news organizations. The Associated Press won every award presented to an online news organization with a national audience, including the award for News Series with the entry, “Marine’s Diary,” an interactive, three-part video essay.

See the list of AP’s winning entries below. View the RTDNA’s full list of the national awards.

Radio Network/Syndication Service

Audio Breaking News Coverage
AP Radio News
Miracle on the Hudson
AP Radio news staff for breaking news coverage of the Hudson River crash of USAirways Flight 1549. Special mention to Warren Levinson who led the coverage on the ground.
Listen to the winning entry

Online News Operation - National

Video Continuing Coverage
The Associated Press
Economy
Entire video staff contributed to coverage throughout the year with specific entries from Matt Friedman, Mark Carlson, Jason Bronis, Faryl Ury and Tony Winton. Oversight of stories led by David Bruns.
Watch the winning entry

Video Feature Reporting
The Associated Press
Liberty Snowflex
Writer/producer/editor Lee Powell on a synthetic ski slope in Lynchburg, Virginia where the conditions are always great for skiing.
Watch the winning entry

Video Reporting: Hard News
The Associated Press
Kidney Swap
Writer/producer editor Kelly Daschle, text writer Lauren Neergaard, photographers Rick Gentilo and Dan Huff for their story on a record-setting 13-way kidney swap in Washington, D.C.
Watch the winning entry

Video Investigative Reporting
The Associated Press
Toxic Water Fountains
Text writer Garance Burke, writer/producer/editor Matt Friedman and contributions from video journalist Haven Daley showing that over the last decade the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.
Watch the winning entry

Video News Documentary
The Associated Press
Killer Blue: Baptized by Fire
Photojournalists Evan Vucci, Rick Bowmer and Maya Alleruzzo for their gripping series on the men of Blue Platoon and their families back home during a 15-month tour of Iraq.
Watch the winning entry

Video News Series
The Associated Press
Marine's Diary
APTN videographer Raul Gallego, based in Bangkok, for his compelling series on the lives of U.S. Marines fighting in Afghanistan.
Watch the winning entry

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