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The winners of the 2007 Edward R. Murrow Awards are going digital! Check out selected clips from this year's entries, showcasing some of the best work in the industry.
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Winner: TV (Large) - Videography KNTV, San Jose, CA - Holy Hostel
The story "Holy Hostel," takes us to the hard streets of the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. The Tenderloin is home to many people without homes, who hustle, struggle and battle everything from the bitter elements of San Francisco nights to life threatening addictions. In the midst of desperate street life lies a hope, St. Bonificace church. The church doors open to provide refuge in the pews, a sacred sanctuary away from the street.
Winner: Television (Large) - Sports Reporting
WCNC-TV, Charlotte, NC - Unbreakable Kos
Only six years old when his mother died … only nine when he slipped under a train and lost his legs ... only 11 when his father abandoned him at a Russian orphanage. “Project Hope” flew Kostya to America to receive prosthetic legs. That trip changed everything. Unable to resist his infectious attitude, Kostya’s host family adopted him. His name has been Americanized to “Kos.” But everything about him screams, “You can’t label me!” Just ask his high school football coach.
Winner: Radio (Small Market) - News Documentary
KHUM-FM, Ferndale, CA - Picking Up: Meth on the North Coast
Picking Up: Meth on the North Coast was a partnership with local PBS affiliate, KEET-TV, and brought increased awareness of the local methamphetamine problem and the challenge of developing a solution by focusing on interviews with former users. It was produced by KHUM program director Mike Dronkers, with additional reporting by sister-station KSLG morning air personality John Matthews. This was the first documentary produced by KHUM, which has no formal news department.
Winner: Television (Large Market) - Overall Excellence
KYW-TV, Philadelphia
Clips from KYW-TV's breaking news coverage of a shooting at an Amish school in Pennsylvania. Winner: Radio (Large Market) - Feature Reporting
KGO-AM, San Francisco, Derrill's Legacy
On the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, KGO reporter Bret Burkhart profiled a Northern California man whose college-age daughter was killed when hijacked United Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field. Deora Bodley’s untimely death turned her father Derrill into a peace activist whose work eventually took him to Afghanistan. Through words and music, Bret explored the close connection between father and daughter, and the tragedies that befell the Bodley family on 9/11 and then again four years later.
Winner: Television (Small Market) - Writing
News 12 Connecticut, Norwalk - David Springer
News 12 Connecticut reporter David Springer has been honored this year for writing. His submission contains three stories: A model railroad under one of Connecticut's largest churches, a high school student with a phyiscal disadvantage who still plays lacrosse, and an in-depth look at how DNA freed a wrongly imprisoned man. David's adept storytelling, play on words and focus on how all the pieces fit together captures the viewer from beginning to end.
Winner: Television (network/Sundication Service) - Videography
Dateline NBC - Rescue on Roberts Ridge
In March 2002, during a battle in Afghanistan, a Navy Seal named Neil Roberts fell from a helicopter as it attempted to land on a mountain controlled by al Qaeda fighters. This is the story of the special forces who were sent to find Roberts and bring him home. This two-hour program focuses on 26-year-old Army Ranger Capt. Nathan Self, whose courage under fire earned him a Silver Star, and on one of his men, Spc. Oscar Escano, who recalls how he lived his life that day in 15-second intervals, the time it took enemy fighters to reload, aim and fire their mortars. Capt. Self lost five men that day but was eventually able to prevail; fulfilling the Ranger creed to “never leave a fallen comrade.” Winner: Television (Large Market) - Writing
KOMO-TV, Seattle - Sharify's Stories
In a composite of three stories, KOMO-TV reporter John Sharify introduces viewers to extraordinary people in the Seattle community. A precious flag goes stolen, and a viewer e-mails Sharify after the story airs, vowing to make things right. A search for the mystery man who helped dozens of people on Talbot Roadduring a winter storm uncovers only that there wasn’t one but two good Samaritans, helping people on the same night, on the same road, with the same name. And then there’s the letter Lindsey Stannard found behind her medicine cabinet while renovating. It's signed “Beatrice,” written 34 years ago. Sharify asks and answers the question: Who is Beatrice?
Winner: Television (Small Market) - Sports Reporting
KTVB-TV, Boise, ID - Olympic Comeback
A Boise native who grew up battling juvenile rheumatoid arthritis goes on to become an Olympic speed skater.
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